SF Beta

Beta Ltd is pleased to welcome Digital Realty as a sponsor!

Digital Realty, Inc. focuses on delivering customer driven data center solutions by providing secure, reliable and cost effective facilities that meet each customer’s unique data center needs. Digital Realty‘s customers include domestic and international companies across multiple industry verticals ranging from information technology and Internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty‘s 102 properties, excluding three properties held as investments in unconsolidated joint ventures, comprise approximately 19.1 million square feet as of February 27, 2012, including 2.4 million square feet of space held for redevelopment. Digital Realty‘s portfolio is located in 31 markets throughout Europe, North America, Singapore and Australia. Additional information about Digital Realty is included in the Company Overview, which is available on the Investors page of Digital Realty‘s website at http://investor.digitalrealty.com.

Beta Ltd is pleased to welcome SendGrid as a sponsor!

SendGrid‘s cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability and real-time analytics along with flexible API’s that make custom integration a breeze. SendGrid helps you focus on your business without the cost and complexity of owning and maintaining an email infrastructure. SendGrid manages all of the technical details from scaling the infrastructure to ISP outreach and reputation monitoring to whitelist services and real time analytics. Save time, resources, and money by focusing your engineering resources on your business and leave the technical work to SendGrid. On average 20% of legitimate emails never reach the inbox. For your business, that means lotheyr customer satisfaction, lost customers and less revenue. SendGrid offers world class deliverability expertise to make sure your emails get delivered.

We’ve switched our mailing list service over to MailChimp, who’s generously comping our account in exchange for promotion on our site.

I’ve used a few different mailing list management services, and MailChimp is the best one I’ve ever used. They have a great feature set, a reliable and thorough service, and one of the best damn UI designs I’ve ever seen.

Thanks to our partnership with O’Reilly, we’re pleased to offer a 25% discount to the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo, coming on May 3-6 to a Moscone Center near you.

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco brings together the designers, developers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketing professionals, product managers, and business strategists building the next-generation web. Along with a vibrant Expo Hall and plenty of networking opportunities, four main conference tracks cover a spectrum of Web 2.0 topics from strategy to analytics, design, real-time, and more. Register today at www.web2expo.com/sf.

25% off discount code: websf10bd13
Free Expo Hall pass: websf10bde

If you have an idea for your startup idea, share it here on our new startup, Trogger. We’ll give it feedback ourselves, as will other members of our community. Whether you’re at the earliest stages, or have a working URL, we’re happy to offer our constructive feedback

Share your startup idea here!

Thanks so much to everyone who came last night and made it our biggest and most exciting SFbeta’s ever!  We’d love your feedback, and Virgance wants your questions!

Head over to our new company site on Trogger, and let us know what you think:

http://trogger.com/tags/sfbeta
http://trogger.com/tags/virgance

We’d also love feedback on the site itself.  You can email that to me at cep [at] rfop [dot] biz, or post it here:
http://trogger.com/discussions/what-do-you-think-of-trogger-s-new-design 

So I just wrote up a quick post summarizing my advice for men working the tech parties for a date.  This is just written from my personal experience, so feel free to keep your own style and hope for the best.  But hopefully it offers some guidance and assitance for getting that special someone:

http://troggerpath.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/find-that-entrepreneurial-valentine/

PS:  Thats the blog for our new start-up venture; so feel free to check it out.  We’d love your eyes and thoughts.

You are invited to enter your business pitch for a chance to win an exclusive interview on CBS5.

Join the Big Success Business Pitch Contest, the nation’s first video business pitch contest on Facebook!

Here is how it works…

Upload Pitch
Upload your 90 seconds pitch video on YouTube. If you are not sure what to say…check out this article What makes a great 90 second business pitch?

Join Contest
Entrepreneurs who join this contest expose their business to the Facebook community before quarterly deadlines. Next deadline: March 20, 2009 12:00 a.m.

Get Votes
Share your Big Success pitch with friends and anyone who needs to know about your business.

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How to Win?
The top three voted entrepreneurs will be selected to pitch and compete to be a quarterly winner in front of a live audience and a panel of judges consisting of seasoned entrepreneurs/potential investors. The quarterly winner will be determined by the panel of judges and receive a prize of being featured on San Francisco TV station CBS5.

Next live contest: Week of March 23rd

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And what else – the Grand Prize…
Each quarterly winner also becomes one of the finalists for the Big Success Finale which will take place on BizTechDay, the annual technology day for small business which will be held on October 22-23 this year in San Francisco. The 2009 Big Success Champion will receive a 30-minute exclusive interview on CBS5 and win a free trip to Miami.

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What are you waiting for? Tell the world about your business.

Click here to join contest

We just secured our venue for 2009; w00t!

So join us for post-holiday melt-down at 111 Minna on January 13th from 5pm – 9pm.  More info to come, but you can register at http://sfbeta3p1.eventbrite.com

So there won’t be an SF Beta until next year, but that doesn’t mean we cant party!

Come check out SNAP Summit on October 28th – the premier San Francisco conference on Social Applications and Widgets.  It follows a Sold Out spring conference, so be sure to check it out with this SF Beta discount.

Also be sure to check out NewTeeVee; they are offering a special discount to our members.    NewTeeVee Live is the premier event showcasing the online video industry’s hottest topics, most talented video producers, promising technologies, leading innovators and top funding executives.