"How to find the next Google. Or at least a free taco"
It’s a wrap! Hey, Thanks to everyone who participated in-person and on-line at the SF New Tech Japan Night III. Here is the summary of presenters and some of their thoughts on presenting on our stage. See you at the next Japan Night and of course see you on USTREAM live!
Agencies, application developers, and brands including Groupon, Gilt Groupe, and Zynga use awe.sm to measure how social media sharing drives traffic and sales. The product features APIs, plugins, and web-based tools.
Contact:
Jonathan Cowperthwait/Marketing
jec@awe.sm
awe.sm
Originate is the leader in a new brand of investment model called “Venture Resources.” We invest elite engineering and business expertise into high-potential opportunities in which we can leverage our past experience to add significant value. A venture capitalist will provide startups with cash and guidance, but we partner with entrepreneurs to actually develop a world class product. We provide the resources to fund, grow, and build a new company.
We work with early-stage ventures as well as more established companies poised for explosive growth. Our portfolio includes investments in some of the most entrepreneurial start-ups and fast-moving enterprises as well as internally generated incubations.
If you are an entrepreneur with the desire to take your startup to the next level, contact us to see how we might work together.
Contact:
Rob Meadows/Partner & CEO
rob@originate.com
originate.com
Wufoo strives to be the easiest way to collect information over the Internet.
Our HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.
Contact:
Chris Coyier/Lead Hucklebucker
chriscoyier@wufoo.com
wufoo.com
Space matters. It can inspire people to do great things. To engage one-another. To think more deeply. To innovate and make a difference. That’s what inspires us at Turnstone. Because great companies don’t just happen. They’re crafted. For unique culture and brand. For tech-enabled mobility. For collaboration and attracting and engaging great employees. Great spaces are part of great companies. Let us make your space matter.
Contact:
Jeff Joerling/Business Development Manager
jjoerling@myturnstone.com
myturnstone.com
The JetJaw mobile engagement platform enables in-the-moment interaction through any mobile phone, tablet or computer. Act fast on immediate, accurate feedback with rich, quantitative analytics. Increase loyalty and revenue with JetJaw.
JetJaw offers solutions for customer feedback at restaurants and retail, audience voting at events and conferences, data collection for mobile workforces, student polls and quizzes at universities and trainings, advertising response and more.
Contact:
Mark Salsberry/CEO
sales@jetjaw.com
www.jetjaw.com
Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) is a financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate. The firm offers integrated services delivered by expert teams worldwide to clients seeking increased value by owning, occupying or investing in real estate. With 2008 global revenue of $2.7 billion, Jones Lang LaSalle serves clients in 60 countries from 750 locations worldwide, including 180 corporate offices. The firm is an industry leader in property and corporate facility management services, with a portfolio of approximately 1.3 billion square feet worldwide. LaSalle Investment Management, the company’s investment management business, is one of the world’s largest and most diverse in real estate with more than $46 billion of assets under management.
Contact:
Tom Poser/Tenant Representative, Office Space Finder
tom.poser@am.jll.com
tomposer.com
Rackspace® Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. In 2010, Rackspace was recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and listed on the InformationWeek 500 as one of the nation’s most innovative users of business technology. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the “2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting.”
Contact:
Celeste Steele/Events Marketing
celeste.steele@rackspace.com
www.rackspace.com
Women in Technology!
brightest women in tech –
Demos and conversation with …
Zaarly
Shirley Hornstein, Rockstar
A new location-based, buyer-powered, community marketplace that let’s you say what you want, when you want it, and how much you’re willing to pay. It’s craigslist meets ebay, on steroids. http://www.zaarly.com // @zaarlysf
Cashimoto
Christie McAllister, CEO
Saving is the new Spending. Cashimoto is a virtual layaway platform that enables users to automatically earmark funds towards desired purchases. http://www.cashimoto.com // @cashimotoSF
TheChanner
Nina Alastruey, CEO
TheChanner is the social live TV browser that allows mobile users around the world to watch the Internet Television and participate. theChanner decodes live streams in real-time on the device to let mobile viewers watch TV available on the Internet, while meeting the community around it. http://thechanner.com // @thechanner
Venntive
Lydia Sugarman, CEO
Venntive is the most cost-effective social marketing platform powering interactive marketing messages across all interactive channels-email, mobile, social, landing pages, and much more with a customizable single customer view. http://www.Venntive.com // @venntive
FREE TACOS
$30.00 cash at the door if not sold out
OPOWER is an industry-leading energy efficiency and smart grid software-as-a-service company. Our goal is to help ordinary people find easy ways to save energy on their utility bills. Our passion is making an unprecedented impact on the health of our planet. With our innovative software platform, we promote energy efficiency by empowering residential consumers to make better decisions on their energy usage. Our all-star team of software engineers, product specialists, behavioral scientists, statisticians, marketing experts, infographic designers, and efficiency advocates are directly responsible for the enormous positive impact we’ve had to date: the amount of power we save from OPOWER’s software platform equals one-third of what’s produced by the entire US solar industry! OPOWER IS HIRING!
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Are you ready? It’s only 2 days before our Mobile Tech night!
We are thrilled to have live on stage this Wednesday night Flixlab, hüklüp, CardFlick, Boombotix, Location Labs, InMobi, plus many more!
Make sure to purchase your tickets quickly….this event is selling out! http://awe.sm/5Oc56
In other news:
We are excited to announce our upcoming events!
July 27th: Women in Tech (Please stay tuned for details to come!)
August 3rd: Sex-n-Tech with We-Vibe, One Taste, plus many others!
September 7th: Bring on the APIs!
We have plenty more events in the works, but we just wanted to give you a taste of the great things to come!
Don’t forget that if you have a wonderful new product that you would like to demo on stage with us, you can always apply online here: APPLY TO DEMO. Or talk to any one of the SF New Tech crew at one of our events. Don’t worry we don’t bite!
Cheers! And see y’all soon- Amy
