In a little over a month, we’re hosting our next SF Beta, with our featured demo theme of “The Future of Media.” The event takes place on July 13 at 111 Minna Gallery. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be announcing demoists and keeping you updated on any exciting news.
Register today to take advantage of our early bird pricing, and see you in July!
At SF Beta last week, I had the chance to meet the folks behind Loveland, one of the coolest and most unique groups to ever pass through our doors — and that’s saying a lot.
Loveland is a collaborative “micro real estate” project based in Detroit. For $1, you can buy one square inch of land on a parcel of land that Loveland owns. The inch (or inches) are yours to do with as you will.
To sell inches, they use the popular fundraising site Kickstarter, and the results have been quite a success, with their first parcel completely sold out, and their second making good progress. The more you buy, the more prizes you get, including a Detroit Ice Potato — and who wouldn’t want one of those?
Vote in our People’s Choice contest! We’re opening up SF Beta to a select group of amazing startups, and we want your help choosing the finalists.
Tagwhat is the ultimate convergence of mobile, augmented reality, and location based social services. It’s “create and share mobile AR” – the world’s first mobile augmented reality creation and distribution system.
What makes Tagwhat different? It’s both on-line and mobile. With on-line map driven and mobile AR, everyone can create and share, globally, in Tagwhat. It’s interactive. Unlike other so-called AR browsers, Tagwhat is a communication system for creating tags to communicate with others. It’s a personalized global view. Following others in Tagwhat merges worldwide maps and AR experiences from trusted friends and followers into your own global view that evolves uniquely for you.
Tagwhat is not simply AR as we’ve known it. It’s a new distribution system for sharing the world around you through unique, personalized AR experiences.
We’re pleased to welcome Tagwhat to the next SF Beta.
We’re happy to confirm our second startup demo, LocalXpert, at the next SF Beta.
LocalXpert is a network of thousands of specialized local web sites where businesses can promote their goods and services by creating a FREE profile and answering questions from local consumers. On network sites such as SanFranciscoOralSurgery.com or SanJoseWindows.com, sophisticated matching technology screens questions and answers to match the best, highly qualified customers with the right expert business owner or professional every time.
I had the pleasure of chatting last week with Steve Hoffman, the founder of FoundersSpace, a new project designed to provide startup founders with free answers to commonly asked questions.
The site provides detailed answers to complex questions, including What is Class F Stock?, What are the tax implications in California between an LLC and a Corporation?, Where can I find a stock plan and equity compensation documents?, and many, many more.
The answers come from prominent investors and advisors, and go into rich detail. We’re proud to promote this valuable new resource, and recommend it to anyone who’s involved in an early-stage venture.
This just in! ServiceLive is joining us as part of our Local & Location demo theme.
ServiceLive is the first online marketplace that allows homeowners and businesses to name their price or request bids for a wide variety of home services, and the list of available services is getting wider every day. ServiceLive was designed to erase the headaches and hassles of getting services done for both the service buyer and the service pro.
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
Okay, okay, we’re about three years late to the party, but hey, better late than never.
SF Beta has its own Twitter account now, maintained by me (Christian Perry) and Krystyl Baldwin.
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