On March 23, join more than 300 founders, investors, developers, and technologists for an evening of demos, drinks, great conversation, and endless opportunities to network and connect.

In a new twist, we’re adding a theme to our demos. This time around, it’s Search and Discovery. If you’re building the next Google-killer, we want to have you at the event! Email cperry@sfbeta.com for more info.

If you haven’t heard, we’re working on our next startup conference: FailCon, and offering our readers 25% off!  This conference is the first of its kind and not to be missed.  We’re shaking things up with specific stories, data, and recovery advice for entrepreneurial failure, from the people who have lived it.  Learn about early team struggles from the guys at Meebo, about adapting to the social web from Mark – founder of Tribe.net and Zynga, hear how Max prepared for PayPal and Slide, and how VCs handle their portfolios when they start to go under.

If you, sadly, can’t make it to the event, well we hope to see you at the SFbeta after party!  We’re expecting 350+ of the newest, hottest, and most fun startups, founders, developers, investors, marketers, and bloggers to be at this evening extravaganza.  More information as we get it, but demos are open!

Share your startup idea here!

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 

A brief summary from the article:
“Virgance focuses on fostering and promoting benevolent, wide-reaching and important campaigns that also stand a good chance to make money. The Virgance engineering team, headed by VP of Engineering Naseem Hakim (who helped build the very popular Facebook app Circle of Friends), is building a platform designed to help promote these campaigns across a number of social platforms. Newcomb describes the platform as “the next iteration of what President Obama did” – leveraging the power of social media to reach the masses. But these campaigns are not simply about raising awareness – they have to let the community somehow interact, and they have to have a solid business model. Depending on the campaign, Virgance gets a portion of the incoming revenues.” 

At our next SF Beta, we’ll be featuring the ventures and adventures of Virgance, with tons of bloggers, press, and investors in attendance.  This is definitely NOT the beta to miss this year.

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.

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

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.

While the agenda has not been announced yet, I can tell you already that it will be as strong or better than our last event back in March (info at http://www.snapsummit.com.)

Pick up tickets at http://snapsummit3.eventbrite.com