SFNTblog_sfciti2Want to have a better San Francisco? That’s exactly what you are going to hear at the next SF New Tech. Meet Jeremy Wallenberg, Director of External Affairs for sf. citi. San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation (sf.citi) is an organization created to leverage the power of the technology community as a force for civic action in San Francisco. sf.citi supports innovative policies and works collaboratively with government to find new solutions to historic problems facing San Francisco, and promote tech sector interests and growth. Over 600 San Francisco based technology companies and organizations are members of sf.citi.

Their sf.citi Chairman is Ron Conway and Vice-Chair Heather Harde, and their Board of Directors can be viewed here click here.
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Meet Shahar Nechmad, founder and CEO of Stagedom who will be pitching at our 7/10 event.  Stagedom is a re-marketing platform for live events, helping entertainment brands to up-sell and connect with their top, PAYING customers.. Let’s see why Shahar created this service:Continue Reading

Screen Shot 2013-07-01 at 2.51.51 PM Our friends at VentureBeat are gearing up for MobileBeat 2013, their sixth annual event on the future of mobile. It takes place on July 9-10 in San Francisco and we’re offering the SFNT community 25% off!

Click here for the discount and check out the details below:

Last year mobile design emerged as a key differentiator, but consumers continue to incorporate phones and tablets into their lives ever more deeply.

MobileBeat 2013 is gathering the industry’s brightest minds who are looking beyond design to implement a fully integrated Mobile Experience. New speakers include:

  • Young Sohn, Chief Strategy Officer, Samsung
  • Rich Riley, CEO, Shazam
  • James Barrese, CTO, PayPal
  • Anand Chandrasekher, SVP & CMO, Qualcomm
  • Lee Linden, Product Lead, Facebook
  • Dave Engberg, CTO, Evernote
  • Rich Miner, General Partner, Google Ventures
  • Sam Shank, CEO & Co-Founder, HotelTonight
  • Joanna Lambert, SVP Strategy & Innovation, Amex
  • Mikkel Svane, Founder, Zendesk
  • Pete Flint, Co-Founder & CEO, Trulia

See the full speaker list here.

Which upcoming releases and trends will help you make your design even sleeker, your technology stacks even faster, and your revenue streams even safer? Who is claiming the eyeballs and wallets by providing the best Mobile Experience? What are the top brands in the world doing to keep up with this shift, and who are they working with?

Find out, along side 500+ executives, during two days of high-level discussions, breakouts, exclusive announcements, and networking sessions.

Program sub themes include: brands/agencies & mobile advertising, consumerization of the enterprise, infrastructure/cloud, commerce, wearables by design, gaming, and mobile development tools.

Tickets are limited, and going fast. Register here and save 25%. We hope to see you next week!

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David Spark of Spark Media Solutions popped over to our Best of the French Tech Tour event last week and asked attendees, “What are the biggest mistakes startups can make?”

Here are 36 of his favorite answers in less than 90 seconds.

Big thanks to all for participating:
Kevin Marks (@KevinMarks), Laurine Chassignon (@visiofair), Yuliya Dmytryshyn (@stanfy), Thibaut Duguet (@Ubifrance), Mathilde David (@Ubifrance), Lionel Roux, Sylvia Gallusser, Andra Tautu Robinson, Baptiste Lacroix, Ramon Jimenez (@Ubifrance), Phil Jeudy (@philjeudy), Guillaume Thomas (@aladom), Guillaume de La Tour, Tony Stilling (@tony2x), Brian Sherman (@clarityinfo), Nick Muldoon (@nickmuldoon), Shaun Saunders – @graffitipr), Ben Levy (@BootstrapLabs), JF Dechant (@bthecoach), Michael Nelson (@mbnel), Chase Beach (@chase_beach), James Teiser (@gonzoguru), Matthew Gonzales (@matthewgonzales), Frederic Dominioni (@rockingfred), Trevor Goss (@trevorgoss), Vassil Mladjov, Matt Fischer (@megosystems), Manuel Acevedo (@acevedo), Loic Gardiol (@loicgardiol), Steve Gurney (@sjg138), Nicolas Vilmert (@nvilmart), Daniel Chatelain (@danielchat), Arnaud Breton (@arnaud_breton), Clément Delangue (@clementdelangue), Yanni Giannaros (@yannigiannaros), Denny Arar (@dennyarar), Didier Baquier (@didierbaq), Peter Mullen (@pemullen), Gayle LaDoux (@gtotheld), Michael Compton (@easyzeke), Alex Lunev, Gregory Veran Caillavet, Claire Liot (@cstarleo), Marion Dessailly (@mariondesailly), Anne-Charlotte Chauvet (@ftt13), Jason Root (@ssgeek), Jai Decker (@jaidecker), Christian Arar, Sandira Calviac (@sandira), Valerie Morignat (@valeriemorignat), Melissa Glass (@missglass1821), Alfredo Coppola (@usmarketaccess), and Daisy the British Bulldog.

Track down that lead.   Here are the folks who made requests on the open mic last night.
Camille Kander
camille@ kander.com
I need a job!
http://github.com/xzoky
I am an exchange student and iOS developer from France. I have until June 7 to find an internship, or Homeland Security will send me home. I don’t need a visa, but I need to show immigration that I have a reason to be here. Hit me up: camille@kander.com

Pulkit Agrawal
pulkit@ shoto.so
shoto
http://www.shoto.so
We are building a photo collection mobile app – get all the photos from the friends you took them with! Automatically! No need to share – just take photos! We are conducting in-depth user interviews to better understand the needs of early adopters and avid smartphone photographers. We’ll thank you with $50 and you’ll get on the alpha tester list if you’d like. Please get in touch!

Sam Blackman
sblackman@gmail.com
Project Freedom
http://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelblackman
Checking out the scene in San Francisco — would love to get involved in projects in the crossover between creative content industries and technology. If you’re in the space and want to chat, ping me!

Yumio Saneyoshi
yumio@ gorillaanalytics.com
Gorilla Analytics
http://www.gorillaanalytics.com
Startups, Small Biz Owners, Non Profits who are looking for a cheap way to get the world to find out about your product! We are a guerrilla marketing agency that will provide unique campaigns for super-cheap.

Pitch Videos from the New Tech Tour in Salt Lake City. Join us with pitches from
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Videos for the last leg of the New Tech Tour in Las Vegas. Join us with pitches from Tabeso, Nihongo Master, imagoo, Lazy Husband, Alice Receptionist, histuffy, and Threadbias,
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Videos for the first leg of the New Tech Tour in San Diego.  With Kareer.me, Yealthy, nuLEDs, Gift Gather, GoFormz, Scoreboard Social, and Nifty.io,
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Videos for SF New Tech’s April Event With MailUp, Foundersuite, Venmo, Songnote, and Directly

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SF New Tech is San Francisco’s largest, longest-running, and most loved technology showcase. It didn’t start that way. It took years of hard work from its creator, Myles Weissleder, to get the show to that point. I met Myles more than five years ago after I attended my first SF New Tech event and was really impressed with how he followed up with all the attendees. I ended up writing an article entitled “A great example of conference follow up.” Since then I’ve attended dozens of SF New Tech events and was honored to be invited by Myles and Outlook.com to cover the third leg of their event New Tech Tour in Las Vegas.

I chatted with Myles about the event, what it is, and why it’s on tour. In the video is also Tony Stilling of Microsoft, who explains why Outlook.com is proud to support both SF New Tech and New Tech on Tour.

One of the problems with living in San Francisco is we’re surrounded by so many brilliant and successful people that we start to believe that all the world’s great ideas and technology comes out of the Bay Area. While so many great companies have started here, there are many other great pockets of innovation happening across the country and around the world.

During the third installment of SF New Tech’s road show, New Tech Tour, I asked the attendees at the yet to be opened InNEVation Center, “What’s so awesome about the Las Vegas startup scene?” They gave us 20 great answers. Watch.

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The tour is done but the comments still flowing. We had a great tour sponsor in Outlook.com. We sat down with Tony Stilling of Outlook.com and get his thoughts on the New Tech Tour which went through the cities of San Diego, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.


 

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Here’s who took to the stage last night and braved the spotlight for 60 seconds.   Check what they’re looking for or needing help with ….

Richard Steel
rich @steelmediainc.com
STEEL MEDIA
http://www.steelmediainc.com
We are growing and looking to hire people, invest in more tech, and talk around investing. Fun times around here!!

Frank H Vial
hello @flux21.net
flux21:group
http://www.flux21.net/decode
help you get traction for your start up brand, early on. let’s get to work together?

Stephanie
stephanie @sixdoors.com
SixDoors
http://sixdoors.com
We’re currently raising a seed round and interested in speaking with content curators and creative writers.

Gonzalo Vazquez
gonzalo.segura1 @gmail.com
Developer
http://gonzalovazquez.ca
Network and meet like-minded people.

Brian Zisk
brian @sfmusictech.com
SF MusicTech Summit
http;//sfmusictech.com
People into the convergence of Internet Music and Technology

Jim Chase
james @jamesschase.com
VP Engineering opportunity
http://jameschase.com
Sold my last of four start ups. Mobile and web. Looking for next great exciting opportunity.

Ingo Renner
ingo @typo3.org
TYPO3 CMS, T3CON North America
http://t3con-na.typo3.org
If you’re looking at finding a CMS that is right for, you might have found it with TYPO3. TYPO3 is an Open Source CMS build for any size of website, small to large. References are local as the Bay Area Discovery Museum and global as Sony Entertainment Network. As a good Open Source citizen we are part of Google Summer of Code for the third time this year, come check us out. T3CON North America is returning to San Francisco 30-31 May. Please join us and get to know our community.

Rong Wang
rong.wang.99 @gmail.com
Self
I am a converter from Fortune 500 to start-up. After my first experience with start-up world, I fully understand now what an inspiring and brave sport it is. Love to talk to you if you need help in business plan, reporting to board and investors, cost structure containment, financial and strategic planning, and accounting controls. No problem signing an NDA with you to learn your passion, brilliance and courage. Best regards, Rong

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Meet Antony Brydon, CEO founder and CEO of Directly who will be pitching at our 4/24 event.  True Ventures backed Directly helps you bypass inefficient customer service and go directly to the best experts in a company for help. Let’s see why Antony created this service:

 “I worked for several years with customer service and call center startups that build the technology that drives you crazy by making it almost impossible to speak to someone smart and skilled. I even helped Sprint set their average hold times for broadband support at 11 minutes – yikes, I’m sorry!. When smart phones took off, I realized we finally had a platform to get around the bottleneck of the call center and connect customers directly to experts. “

 Antony talks about how those experts are vetted:

“Experts authenticate company and industry experience via LinkedIn. Once they’re in the community and helping customers, they develop a reputation and helpful score based on how customers and other experts rank them. The best experts earn more tips and testimonials, the less helpful ones sink to the bottom and get limited interaction with customers.”

If you want to know more about Directly visit their website | Follow them on twitter @directly
Even better, see Antony at our 4/24 event. Get your tickets here.

SFNTBlogPic_VenmoMeet Juan Benitez, CTO of Venmo Touch who will be presenting at SF New Tech on April 24. Venmo Touch is an easier way to pay on your mobile device. Consumers save their credit card in one mobile app and can checkout across any other app in the network with just one touch. Here’s Juan’s take on Venmo:

“Venmo Touch was created to bring merchants and consumers together. More and more people are shopping on their mobile phones, but it’s a pain to type a credit card number on a tiny touch screen. With Venmo Touch consumers enter their credit card information one time in an app, that information is stored in the Braintree Vault, and can be used to complete any future purchases from merchants on the network. It’s a win-win for everyone because it increases the business’s conversion rates for mobile purchases as well.”

Visit their page below and check out the team page. Cool Gifs going on there.

Check them out at https://venmo.com | Follow them on Twitter @braintree |

If you want to hear Juan pitch, get your tickets for our 4/24 event here.

SFNTBlogPic_MailupMeet Massimo Arrigoni, CEO of Mailup who will pitch at our 4/24 Event.  Mailup demonstrates how an ecommerce merchant leverages customer data and gets a higher ROI:  using MailUp’s unlimited filters to create highly targeted and automated post-purchase messages. Massimo tells us why they created Mailup:

“MailUp started as a Web agency in Italy back in 2003. Clients kept asking for a good newsletter management system, so we built one “

Massimo tells us how different they are from a service like MailChimp:

“First of all, we’ve got our Italian roots, which show in things like beautiful, fashion inspired email templates (see above) and a very appealing admin interface.”

“Secondly, in MailUp you can create triggered messages (not just notifications) based on multiple conditions, something that cannot be done in a system like MailChimp and that can really make the difference in terms of sales. For example, an ecommerce store could automatically send a message to somebody that has purchased over $500 in the last year, but has not purchased in the last 90 days.”

Visit them at www.mailup.com | Follow them on Twitter @mailup_us | Like them on Facebook

If you are interested how their Italian roots made their service possible, get your ticket to our 4/24 event here.

SFNT_BlogPic_FoundersuiteMeet Nathan Beckord – Founder of Foundersuite who will be pitching at our 4/24 event. In a nutshell, this service helps founders with “tools to get startup sh*t done.” Don’t we all want to get sh*t done. Nathan talks about the motivation for this service suite for startup founders:

“I’ve been advising and consulting to startups for the past 10 years on BD, Finance, and Ops; after solving the same challenges over and over again, I decided to productize this work into a SaaS startup called Foundersuite.”

“Foundersuite is based on the idea that the best startup founders focus on building product and making customers happy; we want to help with all the “other stuff” like planning, operations, fundraising, investor relations, etc.”

“Our goal is to: 1) Make complex tasks simple and easy; 2)  Streamline unpleasant tasks (like Turbotax does for filing tax returns); 3) Codify silicon valley best practices; and, 4) Bring process and structure to the messy job of starting a startup.”

The suite is in beta but I think if you reach out to Nathan, he can fix you up.

To find out more visit foundersuite.com | Follow them on Twitter at @foundersuite | Like them on Facebook

If you want to ask Nathan a few questions come to our 4/24 event to hear his pitch!

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Meet Heidi Darling – Founder and CEO of Songnote. She will be pitching us at our 4/24 event on their new app – Songnote. Songnote allows you to share a song with a hand crafted note. Heidi reflects on starting Songnote:

“Songnote began with the realization that there was no good way to let someone know when a song reminded you of them.  There were several music discovery services like Pandora and listening platforms like Spotify but there was no mobile tool designed to share the song that moves you.  The emphasis was on discovery and access not conveying sentiment.  Music is universally appealing and an incredible communication tool.  A fast, fun way to share a song+note from your mobile device, Songnoteâ„¢ harnesses the power of music as a way to communicate.  Simply put, it lets your music do the talking.”

Check their app out at http://www.getsongnote.com | Follow them on Twitter @getsongnote | Like them on Facebook

If you want to see Heidi pitch live, come to the 4/24 event. Get your tickets here!

 

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Meet C.J. MacDonald, one of the founders at Herdmark. He will be pitching us at our 3/20 event on their new collaboration tool – Herdmark. Herdmark allows you to create a library of great resources that you can use, share and add.

“We thought that there was no good way to share bookmarks with your team.  There are bookmarking tools, like delicious, but they don’t do anything for groups of collaborators.  And there are team collaboration tools but they don’t have much if any support for bookmarks, and anyway, they do so many things that we believe that they are not used for bookmarks.  We think that bookmarks hold a sort of “corporate knowledge” in an organization and for subgroups in an organization.  We wanted to make a focussed tool for bookmarks”

Check them out at http://herdmark.com  | Twitter: @herdmark |

Meet Manuel Acevedo – the CEO at Townten. He will be pitching a local search engine called Townten at our next 3/20 event. If you haven’t heard about Townten, Townten.com is a local search engine that helps you find better quality restaurants, bars and venues in San Francisco and the local Bay Area. It is currently in private beta and will be launched at SF New Tech.

“There are plenty of high-quality places to be discovered in town, but unfortunately, current local search engines use a flawed star-rating algorithm that favors large standardized places instead of higher-quality authentic local businesses. With our new technology we get rid of star-ratings and we help people discover the true topten places in town.”

On pitch day you can find them here | Twitter - @townten |

Introducing Micha Benoliel – Co-founder and CEO of Open Garden. Micha was born into technology where he learned to code in basic on a Zenith PC. Well, back to Open Garden. Open Garden leverages crowdsourcing to create seamless connectivity across 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It enables users to create their own ad-hoc mesh networks with other Open Garden-enabled devices including smartphones, tablets and PCs. What’s a mesh network? Read a little about it here.

“The density of smartphones has attained a critical mass; there are now more devices to connect to the Internet than people. The ecosystem of applications gives developers access to hundreds of millions of users instantly.   Open Garden is leveraging mesh networking and peer-to-peer technologies to turn everyone’s phone into an Internet node in a few clicks. With Open Garden everyone can be connected everywhere as if they were at home.”

Learn more at  their website | Follow them on Twitter: @OpenGarden | Follow them on LinkedIn
See Micha live at SF New Tech here.

Meet Rafe Needleman – the Platform Advocate at Evernote. Rafe will be one of our presenters pitching at our March 20 event. Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small using your computer, phone, tablet and the web. We all need help with that, right? Well, Evernote has been known for the great apps that it connects to and Rafe will tell you more how you can get involved.

“On Wednesday I’ll be talking about the Evernote platform and the DevCup competition for 2013, which we just kicked off.  I will also discuss a new prize we’re doing with the guys from Honda Silicon Valley Lab.”

Catch them at  http://www.evernote.com | Follow them on Twitter: @evernote | Like them on Facebook
More on the Evernote’s DevCup 2013
If you want to see Rafe’s demo in person, grab your ticket here.

Meet Jeff Kirschner – Founder of the Litterati. Jeff will pitching at our March 20 event. For those who don’t know Litterati, they are an organization dedicated to cleaning the planet one piece of litter at a time. Basically, instagram a piece of garbage that you have found, throw it away(they trust you) and become a member – pretty simple. Their organization has already rid the planet of more than 6,000 pieces of garbage.

“I was hiking in the Oakland Hills with my two kids.  My daughter Tali (4 yrs) noticed that someone had thrown a plastic tub of cat litter into the creek.  She looked at me and said, “Daddeee, that doesn’t go there.” That was the eye-opening moment. “

Catch them at http://www.litterati.org / | Follow them on Twitter:  @litterati | Like them on Facebook
If you want to see Jeff’s demo in person, grab your ticket here.

 

Meet Katherine Hague from ShopLocket – our 3/20 presenter. Katherine oversees the day-to-day ops of Toronto-based ShopLocket and makes sure customers keep coming back to their service(aka Biz Dev). ShopLocket lets anyone start selling professionally online in minutes. Simply publish a product, embed it in any website, Facebook page, or blog post, and start seeing the green pile – well, maybe start to mound at the very least.

“ShopLocket was born out of an opportunity that I saw in the market while developing themes for Shopify. I realized that as awesome as storefront solutions are they require you to leave behind whatever platform you had originally been using and start from scratch. Quick alternatives like PayPal buy buttons and marketplaces just seemed unprofessional.”

Catch them at  http://www.shoplocket.com | Twitter: @shoplocket | Facebook

If you want to catch Katherine’s demo in person, go here.

Meet Matt Pacyga – the Chief Strategist at Canopy. He will be pitching Sensus and its API for developers at our next 3/20 event. If you haven’t heard about Sensus, it is a touch sensitive case for your smartphone that expands the functionality to your smartphone experience. Think of it as an accessory that enhances your apps. Gamers – watch out! You will probably see them on iPad – Tall & Grande and Android in the future.

“we heard from the development community… We want MORE! Developers told us that they wanted more inputs from the case into the phone. We created Sensus.”

Check out Sensus at http://developer.getsensus.com/ | Twitter - @canopyco | Facebook 

Meet Mathew Guiver, the “life-long entrepreneur” and tax-time friend at WeFile.it. He will be pitching us at our 3/20 event on their new service WeFile.it. WeFile.it makes filing easier and more affordable by cutting out the middlemen, and connecting clients directly with experienced Tax Pros. All Tax Pros are screened by a member of the WeFile.it team before their profiles can go live. They verify the experience and specialties, and also ensure they are responsive and friendly.
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The videos for each presenter - Blipboard, WalkMe, Pedicine, LoYakk, Bizzabo are now live.  Check them out here. Also, the videos are available on our SF New Tech YouTube channel. Give them a view and rate them. Have a great weekend!

It’s official!  San Diego, here we come!

On Monday, 4.29, SF New Tech will be live at the Belly Up in Solana Beach to shine a light on San Diego’s greatest new tech!

We’ll be posting details soon!

In the meantime, if you’re building something awesome in San Diego (or nearby) we want to take a look!  Who knows… you may find yourself in the spotlight!

Apply to demo @ https://www.sfnewtech.com/tour  (it’s free!)

We’re also very interested in meeting local partners who want to join us for the fun.

Email Myles at myles@sfnewtech.com for more info.

Cheers!

 

Here’s who was looking for what during the 60 Second spots last night.

Track down that lead!
Jonathan Govette
jonathan@getreferralmd.com
referralMD
http://www.getreferralmd.com
Seeking: .net programmers creative writers Ux designers

Cory Jones
cory@dinklife.com
DINKlife
http://www.dinklife.com
Seeking: strategic partners to help grow our audience.

Flavio Pripas
flavio@fashion.me
Fashion.me
http://fashion.me
Seeking: Launch in US – looking for partners, fashion brands and connections in US Investors for Series B

Yumio Saneyoshi
yumio@gorillaanalytics.com
Gorilla Analytics
http://www.gorillaanalytics.com
Seeking: Startup founders of consumer products who want users! We have a network of students and interns who can help you market your product and start a viral revolution! We have a free trial running right now, so contact us.

Danushka Abeysuriya
danu@rushdigital.co.nz
IgnitionWare Game Engine
http://ignitionware.com
Seeking: We’re having a little developer preview of our awesome JavaScript mobile game engine: beer, pizza & code on the 26th of Feb (next Tues) at the Kiwi Landing Pad 185 Clara St. 6:30pm-8pm. Check out the website for more details about the event and the tech!

The 6th annual LAUNCH Festival (http://festival.launch.co) is coming up in San Francisco from March 4th – 6th. Be a part of the largest live audience in technology, watch the next Dropbox, Yammer or Mint launch on stage, and learn about building great startups!

The first 25 of y’all to punch in the code SFNEWTECH at this URL: https://launch.webconnex.com/festival2013are in for FREE.

They are also offering all builders (developers, designers, broke founders) free tickets! Apply here: http://festival.launch.co/builder.html.

Finally, they’re also throwing a Hackathon (with a $50k investment prize!). More info: http://launchhackathon.com

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LAUNCH Festival is the best place to launch your company, raise money, and learn about building great startups. 50 companies launch and compete for titles including Best Design, Best Technology, and Best Overall. With 5,000+ attendees and 3,000 people in the audience, making it the “largest live audience in technology.” In addition to the main stage, there will be “Office Hours” where you can ask great investors/entrepreneurs your burning questions, a “Skills Stage” where you can learn to improve on your UI/UX, raise an angel round, succeed in the app store, etc, and finally a Hackathon with a $50k investment prize.

Check out what these brave souls are looking for …

Duane Atkins
duane@ezyinsights.com
EzyInsights
https://ezyinsights.com
EzyInsights is a community management tool that helps companies build relationships with their community on social media and other platforms. We even have an API that accepts custom data that we can analyse for you. If you’re interested in having a coffee I’d be pleased to meet you! We’re looking for a business dev co-founder, so please hit me up duane@ezyinsights.com for more info!

chris castagnetto
ccas@gaiaonline.com
Gaia Online
http://www.gaiaonline.com  
Gaia Online is a online community website of 2.6 million users. We have a number of great advertising opportunities available for companies who are looking to reach the 13 to 24 demo for competitive rates. Were also looking for great bus dev cross promotional opportunities so please reach out and I look forward to hearing from you.

Alex Hofmann
contact@inqu.me
Inqu
http://www.Inqu.me
Looking for a kick-ass iOS developer – Looking for investors – Send us your feedback We are the Quora for closed questions.

Li Jiang
ljiang@gsvam.com
EdTech Silicon Valley
http://www.meetup.com/EdTech-Silicon-Valley/    
We are an education technology meetup group. Come check out our events.

Andrew Smith
andrew@fusegap.org
fuseGap
http://fusegap.org
Just looking to meet people, potential interns, people who want to help make it cool to be informed.

Andres Acosta
andres@pingsf.net
PingSF
http://www.pingsf.net
Any Ping Pong players who work in tech in or around San Francisco. We’re hosting regular meetups and events.

Ron Selvey
rselvey@webdamsolutions.com
Hiring and Big Marketing After Party
http://www.webdamsolutions.com
Looking for Developers & Account Executives

SF New Tech is morphing and growing!  And we’re crazy-excited.  We’ve got a lot of great things in the works on our mission to help the startup community thrive.

2013 will bring…

A Brand New Site!
We’re calling it SFNT 1.5.  We’re moving from WordPress to Drupal so we can better kick things up a notch.  Big thanks to our friends at AssureSoft for helping to piece it together.

A New Technology!
We’re building a better way for startups to show off their latest & greatest news and new features.

Which one of these domain names rocks it for you?

Interested in volunteering to hack it together with us?  Cool!  Please get in touch with your skillz.

A New Way For Startups To Raise Money!
We’ll be enabling crowdfunding to and for the SFNT community — and beyond.   We’re one step closer to the day you’ll be able to fund the demo you’re watching on stage via your phone. Super-exciting!

A New Way To Find Shared Purpose!
At our 1.23 event we’ll be introducing a way to Match-Connect-Transact with other attendees.  Those who sign up will gain access to relevant contacts based on shared purpose.  You’re looking for them and they’re looking for you… and we’re going to help you make magic.

A New Monthly Happy Hour To Talk Tech Over Cold Drinks!
Join us for our monthly “Belly Up” happy hours at Harlot (46 Minna).  The next one is on 1.29, 6-8 pm.  It’s free to join the fun.  Cash bar (unless we can find a sponsor).  RSVP here: http://bellyup29jan.eventbrite.com . Remember, amazing things happen when like-minded people meetup!

Office Hours, For Real!
Through our storied history, SF New Tech’s HQ has literally floated around the bay.  The SS SFNT has since been decommissioned but we’re still keen on keeping a light anchor.   That said, we’re proud of our new floating desk at WeWork at 156 2nd Street, one of the best collaborative working environments in SF (and NY an LA).  If you’re downtown on Wednesdays or Fridays, drop a line!

A New Approach To New Tech In New Cities!
Most startups worth their salt come to SF to make it happen.  But a lot of great things are happening in other cities too. We’re intent on drumming up innovators and people who love innovation to come together in other cities in 2013.  If you’re reading this from abroad and want us to come to you, drop a line!

Details Details
Needless to say we’ll be rolling out the nitty-gritty details on all these exciting developments as they emerge.  We’re going to need a lot of help from the community to pull all this off famously.  Thanks in advance for your support and understanding. 🙂

Your donations via our holiday party helped the Hands Together to Defend the Children (HTDC) Orphanage in Haiti rebuild classrooms that were destroyed by tropical storm Isaac in August. Way to go!

Check out the smiles you helped create!

Over the past few years thanks to the awesome organization, European Disaster Volunteers, we’ve done what we can to help provide a safe house for the kids at HTDC.

In addition to supporting these kids, your donations helped to:

* Provide dinner to 500 families in NY & NJ that were dislocated due to super-storm Sandy (via The River Fund Mobile Pantry);

* Provide 1 child in India with quality education for 1 year (via Non Formal Education Centres);

* Provide enough needles and syringes to vaccinate over 625 Somalian children (via Merlin USA).

Of course, big thanks to the Social Media Club and Outlook.com for helping us pull this off.

Awesome Extravaganza of Amazing Inventions & Scientific Feats of Wonder!

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Here’s something to talk about at the table tomorrow!

SF New Tech is on the hunt for Mad Scientists & Amazing Inventions!

On Wednesday, December 5th, Get Ready For An Awesome Extravaganza of Amazing Inventions & Scientific Feats of Wonder!

We’re thrilled to bring to the stage some of the most fascinating inventions of our time!

Including:

* Brain-Controlled Helicopters (Puzzlebox Orbit)

* The First Satellite Launched by You! (SkyCube)

* Elegant, Wireless Activity Trackers! (Misfit Shine)

* Geek Rocket Science! (Darwin Aerospace)

* And More! Details coming soon!

Working on a cool invention you’d like to show off?  Know someone who is?

Reply to this email and tell us about it!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cheers,

Myles Weissleder

 

posted right HERE.  Go track down that lead!

 

Upcoming SFNT events for your tech-lovin’ self:

11.20 – Giving Thanks & Talking Turkey with Livefyre, Traackr, Wheelz, Myte, Desti, aquoria, wHealthy Solutions, & more!

A few program notes for this event… First, Refer.ly had to bow out because Danielle will be heading home for Thanksgiving. Bummer for us! We’ll get her back soon.  Second, just added: wHealthy Solutions (who got pushed out of the way by the SF Giants in October), aquoria, and Desti.  In all, a fantastic line up of awesome new tech, just like you love it.  Register @ http://givethx2newtech.eventbrite.com (Note, this event is on a TUESDAY!)

11.27 – Belly Up with GREE!  

Join us for a free happy hour at Harlot from 5-9 pm and learn how you can score your dream job in mobile gaming! Admission is free.  And the beer is free while supplies last.  Sign up today @ http://bellyupwithgree.eventbrite.com

12.5 – Mad Scientist Night!

Get ready for your socks to be blown off on 12.5 at our own geeky science fair that’ll be chock full of awesome new inventions! Get ready for brain-controlled helicopters, personal satellites, wireless activity tracking devices and more!  We’ve got invites out to a bunch of awesome geeky inventors and will be announcing this event shortly.  Are you a mad scientist?  Working on a cool invention that needs some exposure? Hit reply and tell us about it!

12.11 – Awesome Holiday Party & Fundraiser

On the eve of Tuesday, December 11th, we’ll be taking over Harlot, one of San Francisco’s chicest boutique lounges and nightclubs, to usher in the holidays in high-style and to celebrate an awesome year of new tech. Expect free flowing drinks, munchies, dancing with DJ Derek Hena of Pink Mammoth, surprise giveaways (from Microsoft, others), and much, much more.  Tickets are $20 of which a portion will be dedicated to help others less fortunate via globalgiving.org.  Sign up with your dancing shoes @ http://awesomeholidayparty.eventbrite.com

Sponsorship Opportunities!

We love helping companies connect with the tech-set of SF!   Join us as a Community or Platinum Sponsor of our demo events!  Become an Exclusive Sponsor of a Belly Up!  Sponsor our Awesome Holiday Party and receive the benefits of mass exposure and a turn-key holiday party for your company.  Email me at events@sfnewtech.com for more info!


Here are the 60 Second Spots from last night.  Track down that lead!

Name: Yair Levin
email: levinyair@ gmail.com
Org: slim
URL: http://slim.io
What?: Seed stage investor

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Name: Sean Grove
email: sean@ zenboxapp.com
Org: Zenbox
URL: https://www.zenboxapp.com
What?: Shows your customer profiles from dozens of SaaS app when hovering over email Zenbox brings all of your customer tools with you anywhere on the web! Hover over any email and you’ll see a complete customer profile pulled in from all of your tools. Integrations only take a single click to get setup – no programming! Integrates with many popular 3rd-party services: Salesforce, Desk.com (formerly Assistly), Zendesk, Stripe, UserVoice, Parse, Google Docs, Mailchimp, CSV Import, and more! Or integrate your own custom data, via a simple URL-endpoint or our easy HTTP API in under 5 minutes. For status and feature updates, follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/ZenboxHQ Integrations coming soon: PayPal, Highrise, HelloFax, Eventbrite, and more!

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Name: Peter Mullen
email: pemullen@ gmail.com
Org: VetsinTech Hackathon
URL: http://techcentralsf.com
What?: We need hackers and those who love them to come and support the local veteran community and help them join the startup/hacker community.

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Name: Antonio Aiello
email: tristamus@ gmail.com
Org: 3D Artist
URL: http://www.tristamus.com
What? Full-time work. Also contract freelance work.

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Name: Jacopo Vigna
email: jacopo@ milkywaybikes.com
Org: MilkyWay
URL: http://www.milkywaybikes.com
What?: Searching for programmers which are keen with extreme and action sports. We are developing a cool new community online and need passioned and committed people. Appreciated if you live in california.

 

AssureSoft

 

 

 

With offices in Silicon Valley, AssureSoft is a full service nearshore software application development company with a multidisciplinary team of Developers, QA Engineers, Creative Designers, and Project Managers that work alongside your team, throughout your workday.

We provide two engagement models for application development:

• Full life-cycle application development, in which we assume start-to-finish responsibility including project management for business analysis, design (include UI design, graphics and branding), development, software testing, and ongoing maintenance; or

• Cooperative development (staff augmentation) where we work with your in-house team to jointly analyze, design, develop, or test.

• Dedicated, long term engineers, or shared resources.

AssureSoft specializes in Agile development utilizing the latest mobile, cloud, web, and business application integration technologies and frameworks to provide our clients with cost-effective, flexible, scalable solutions. We help ISVs, Startups, and technology driven companies achieve a competitive edge.

It’s that time of year again!

We’re gearing up for our (Double) Awesome Holiday Party and Fundraiser and we want YOU to be a part of the fun!

Of course you can show up and dance the night away with us.

OR, you can join forces with us and SPONSOR this shindig to put your company in the middle of all the awesome action!

Interested in learning more?  Get in touch @ events@sfnewtech.com! Quick!

 

Wow.  How crazy!

SF New Tech makes news in the The Wall Street Journal for making way for a baseball game!

When we realized early Tuesday morning after the SF Giants won the pennant and were heading to the World Series here in SF on Wednesday night, on the eve of a long-scheduled SF New Tech event, we had to make a quick and harsh decision: Do we keep the course and compete with the Giants or do we cede to the hometown team and cancel our event altogether?Continue Reading

You’re So Money! With Stripe, CannedBanners, Spongecell, Lexity, Paymentwall, more!

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Today’s Indie Developer Toolkit: SF New Tech invites you to join GREE and a suite of companies including Unity, Adobe, Chartboost and Swrve, to learn about the tools they offer small devs to reach a large audience.

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Demos from Mine, Devium, Alphyn Industries, SocialPOV, Rezdy, and more!
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Demos Nifty, TalentBin, Park in SF, ApptheGame, Conference Hound & more:
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We are rescheduling Wednesday night’s #SFNT.
No sense in competing with Game 1 of the World Series in SF.
More details coming soon!

 

 SF New Tech
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

BREAKING OUT!
Breaking Out!



Demos and Discussions with


Referly
Referly
Danielle Morrill, CEO
Referly makes it easy for anyone to recommend products they love, and when those recommendations result in a sale they get paid. Earned money for sharing your expertise online has never been easier.  http://www.refer.ly // @referly

 

wHealthy Solutions
wHealthy Solutions
Michael Segal, CEO
We are the first social network service empowering users to select and shop for the healthiest nutritional basket. http://www.whealthysolutions.com // @whealthysol


Innovation Choice Group
Innovation Choice Group
Robert Arauz, Founder & CEO
Making medical and scientific research better. Innovation Choice Group is bringing to market a professional online network that finds rapid solutions to the urgent questions of biotechnology researchers, scientists, students and others central to the life sciences by providing a collection of trusted experts who can assist with their questions. http://www.innovationchoice.com // @P2P_Research

TapCanvas
TapCanvas
Joshua Merrill
Founder, Chief Pixel Pusher
TapCanvas lets anyone build a single-use HTML5 mobile app.  TapCanvas gives customers the tools to build, promote, and analyze “single-use” HTML5 mobile apps. These short shelf-life use cases include events, real estate, advertising, and more.  With novel promotional tools, like preprogrammed NFC stickers, we’ll open a world of new use cases where both print and digital alternatives fall short.  We’re pushing the limits of what HTML5 can do on mobile phones to create a rich, native app-like experience.  http://www.tapcanvas.com // @tapcanvas

 

NeuroDreamer
NeuroDreamer
Mitch Altman, Founder/inventor/mad scientist
Mitch will show his NeuroDreamer sleep mask, which helps lull people into restful sleep.  It uses light and sound, and is embedded into a comfortable foam mask that you can wear all night as you sleep.  There is also optional Lucid Dreaming functionality built into the NeuroDreamer to help people control their dreams. NeuroDreamer sleep masks also have a Meditation version to help people learn to meditate.  Mitch will also show his Brain Machine / TripGlasses project, which he wrote up for MAKE Magazine — these are fun simplifications of the NeuroDreamer to help people meditate (while imagining beautiful colors and patterns from their imagination).  http://www.NeuroDreamer.com // @maltman23






Tickets:
$15.00 for early bird online tickets
$25.00 for all other (late bird) online tickets

$30.00 cash at the door if not sold out

 
Schedule:
5:30 pm – Doors & Bar Open
5:30 -7:00 pm – Schmooze and Free Tacos!
7:30 – 9:30 pm – Live Demos
9:30 – 11:00 pm – Schmooze
*Mighty is a 21+ venue.

 


FREE TACOS

FOR THE FIRST 150 PEOPLE IN THE DOOR!!

SF New Tech Sponsors

CALinnovates.org

 CALinnovates.org is a statewide coalition focused on championing the conversation about the future of California’s critical technology sector. CALinnovates.org brings together industry experts, thought leaders, tech innovators, policy makers and consumers in a non-partisan mission to promote innovation, create new jobs, spur investment and support tech-friendly policies. CALinnovates.org not only provides a medium for educating policy makers and for companies to network, but helps to connect the ideas of today for an economy of tomorrow.
LeClairRyan Our good friend Eric Ferraro is back! As a Shareholder at the law firm of LeClairRyan, Eric focuses his practice on the representation of private and public emerging and growth companies in the technology and digital media sectors as well as investors and financial services firms that focus on those industries. LeClairRyan is well-known as an entrepreneurial law firm that provides business counsel and client representation in matters of corporate law and high-stakes litigation. If you’re in need of counsel for your startup call Eric first.

btrax

 btrax, Inc. is a San Francisco based creative agency serving global markets for over 6 years. Our team has a wide range of experience from handling UI Design, User Experience Consulting, Social Media Marketing, Branding and Identity, Startup Prototypes, Mobile development, to website localization for the Asian market. We are proud to be a Platinum sponsor of SF New Tech and serving them as their creative partner.
 Outlook.com Microsoft just launched the preview of their new, modern email service Outlook.com. It brings a fresh and intuitive design, it connects your email to useful information from Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn, it gives you a smarter inbox with the power of Office and SkyDrive, and since email is personal, it keeps you in control of your private data. Folks from the Outlook.com team will be at SFNT to show you the product, answer your questions and, of course, provide some swag. See it in action at www.outlookpreview.com.
Mylermedia: We’re the ones behind this shindig!

 




Become a “Me+1” annual member and you and a buddy get into events for free!

See how friends with benefits takes on a whole new meaning!  Become a Friend of SF New Tech!
Get a job! Hire a pro!
Apply to Demo!

Name: Greg Muender
Email: muender@ gmail.com
Name of company or project: Tech CoFounder wanted
Web Site: http://www.gregmuender.com
What are you looking for? Or needing help with?
I am looking for a cofounder for my next company. I have a few ideas, but will need a tech cofounder. Open to your ideas as well! My last company was acquired just last month, so I have experience in building a concept into a company, and then selling said company! Thanks!

Name: Steven Willmott
Email: steve@ 3scale.net
Name of company or project: API Strategy and Practice Conference
Web Site: http://www.apistrategyconference.com
What are you looking for? Or needing help with?
Check out the event – 30+ speakers on APIs from a wide range of companies – 1-2nd November, Westin Grand Central, New York.

Name: Mitch Altman
Email: mitch@ CornfieldElectronics.com
Name of company or project: Noisebridge
Web Site: https://www.noisebridge.net
What are you looking for? Or needing help with?: Hackerspace in San Francisco! Lots of free classes and workshops for people into tech, art, craft, food, . . . Anything you want to explore! We never close. All ages, all skill levels, all welcome.
2169 Mission St. (at 18th St.)

Name: Michael Schade
Email: michael@ stripe.com
Name of company or project: Stripe
Web Site: https://stripe.com/
What are you looking for? Or needing help with?
Want a free Stripe shirt or stickers? Tweet me @sch or get in touch directly at michael@stripe.com!

Hey now!

Lots in motion here in the land of SF New Tech.

We’ve got a busy few weeks and months ahead of us … and if all goes as planned, exciting developments in the hopper for a bigger, more resourceful “new tech” experience. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, we’re pleased to announce our October events. Hope to see you!

Cheers,

Myles

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10.10 SFNT: You’re So Money! With Stripe, CannedBanners, Spongecell, Lexity, and more.

We’re following the money and diving in deep with companies who are at the forefront of enabling the flow of cash online, as well as those who help convert clicks into sales. Whether you call e-commerce or just plain commerce — it’s money, baby.

Codes:
1010-isnoozed = 10% off (25 available)
1010-whatadeal = 25% off (25 available)
1010-yeahbaby = 50% off (25 available)
1010-seeyouthere = 100% off (30 available)

Register @ http://itsmoney.eventbrite.com/

Bonus: We had a lot of lines out for this one but conflicting schedules abound. That said, we’ve got a room on stage for another “money” demo or two. Ping me quickly if you think you’ve got what it takes.

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10.18 SFNT: Dutch Demo Night! Meet 13 of the Netherlands’ Best Startups!

SF New Tech and the Consulate General of the Netherlands are thrilled to present Dutch Demo Night, featuring 13 of the most promising Dutch startups. This event is the culmination of the 2012 Holland in the Valley Startup Bootcamp, a 4-day intensive program designed to provide a first-hand experience to dutch companies of the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

Companies include: Aito, Coocoolu, Clinical Graphics, EmulTech BV, Plantspot, Muzikool, Jet-Stream, PersuasionAPI, Prooflink, Screvo, Social Mining, Talmundo / Bedrijfssimulaties.nl, and Twitcident. Read up on them @ http://dutchdemonight.eventbrite.com/

Codes:
1018-isnoozed = 10% off (25 available)
1018-whatadeal = 25% off (25 available)
1018-yeahbaby = 50% off (25 available)
1018-seeyouthere = 100% off (30 available)

Register @ http://dutchdemonight.eventbrite.com/

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10.24: SFNT: Breaking out! With Refer.ly, TapCanvas, and others. Details coming soon.

Codes:
24-isnoozed = 10% off (25 available)
24-whatadeal = 25% off (25 available)
24-yeahbaby = 50% off (25 available)
24-seeyouthere = 100% off (30 available)

Register @ http://sfnt1024.eventbrite.com/

Bonus: Hit the Big Red Button to apply to part of this event!

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Future events:

11.7: Mobile & Apps, Apps & Mobile!
11.20: Open
12.5: Open
12.19: Holiday Party! (Wanna partner up??)

Apply to demo @ https://www.sfnewtech.com/demo

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Community Sponsor Love:

http://outlook.com/ – A great new approach to email from Microsoft
http://www.leclairryan.com/eric-ferraro/ – Eric is an awesome tech-friendly lawyer
http://www.calinnovates.org/ – Bridging the CA tech sector to lawmakers in Sac & DC
http://www.btrax.com/ – Serving up our live stream like a boss

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Friends of SF New Tech:

Application Developers Alliance, AssureSoft, AT&T, Big.First.Name, btrax, City of Buenos Aires, dot.tk, Flurry, GREE, HummerWinblad, JetJaw, Jones Lang LaSalle, Microsoft, MorganStanleySmithBarney, Nearsoft, OPOWER, Originate, PointBurst, Prometis, Rackspace, RocketSpace, SponsorHub, The Waldron Group, Turnstone, UBIFRANCE, vidcaster, Vitamin T, WalkerSands, Wufoo. You can become a friend too! https://www.sfnewtech.com/friends

Thanks, y’all, for being a part of our awesome community!

We had more but only 3 folks took to the laptop last night.

Here they are … go track down that lead:

Name: Ben Morse
Email: ben@joynme.com
Name of company or project: JoynMe
Web Site: http://www.joynme.com
What are you looking for? Or needing help with?:
We are looking for awesome engineers! ios/backend. We are also looking for a seed round of 400-500K. Thanks! www.joynme.com ! @joynme

Name: Joju Mangalam
Email: jm@Paretocentral.com
Name of company or project: ParetoCentral.com
Web Site: http://www.paretocentral.com
What are you looking for? Or needing help with?:
companies who are looking for software professionals can use our “consulting tryout” program to recruit qualified professionals from established companies.

Name: Shah Rahman
Email: shah@horoppa.com
Name of company or project: Horoppa Labs
Web Site: http://www.horoppa.com
What are you looking for? Or needing help with?:
— Young startup companies trying to bootstrap or growing off founders/FnF money

— To beta/trial with us on our managed IT/cloud offerings

— To find startups willing to let us help with IT/cloud/dev ops

 

Have you ever had that moment where you wished you could un-send a text?

Of course you have, you live in the 21st century and own a smart phone like any other well adjust person who isn’t stuck under a rock or an Ostridge with its head in the sand.

With all the technological advancements in the world today, you’d think that the auto correct feature on smart phones would be, well, smart or at least a bit more intuitive. We’ve all sent a text (or nine) that we didn’t proof read first before sending that may or may not have ended us up in a awkward situation. If that wasn’t true we wouldn’t have funny things to post on Facebook like the ever popular blog “Damn You Auto correct”.

Ionnis, co-founder of Fleksy, a new iOS app solves this major problem and flaw of smart type technology. Frustrated with smart phone typing errors from typing on a glass keyboard and the sub par auto corrections, Ionnis and his partner, Kostas set out to create a app to make sure that nobody ever has this problem again.

Fleksy, a product of Syntellia was based off of the following idea:
When typing with a physical keyboard you don’t spend much time looking at the keys if at all. More time is spent looking at the screen to see what you typed. Now what if you were blind? It would be impossible to type out anything   correctly. Ionnis and Kostas thought if they could create a keyboard app that a blind person could use successfully, anyone could use it. That’s the idea that set the benchmark for Fleksy.

Eighteen months ago is when they started to develop such an app. Version one was released about six weeks ago to blind people only via the iOS “voice over” function. One week ago Fleksy was released to all iOS users to try for free. Use the full version of Fleksy to text and tweet or copy and paste into emails.


Currently Fleksy is iOS only, however they are working with cell phone manufacturers to have it built into keyboards on future devices. So, sadly for now all you Android and Windows phone users will have to wait.

Spread the word!

SF New Tech is accepting applications to demo on the stage of SF’s largest, longest-running, and most-loved tech event series!

Join the ranks of 100s of other awesome companies who’ve braved the spotlight to show off their latest and greatest in front of the Bay Area’s coveted digerati: early adopters, investors, developers, media, and more.

We’re especially on the lookout for the best and brightest new tech in the following categories:

– e-commerce : $ thru the pipes!  (9/12 event – details in your inbox soon!)
– mobile : apps // x-platform successes
– social gaming
– crowdfunding
– big data: analytics // consumer
– cloud
– html5
– security
– food, glorious food (& beverages too!)

Apply to demo @ https://www.sfnewtech.com/demo

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We’re still buzzing from the special events we produced this summer for Microsoft (Outlook.com’s “Mystery Event” with the Lumineers) & Flurry (Big Data Summer Blowout). Definitely expect more special events coming down the pike this fall (Hint: pencil in 9/19 for a special night at Wish to celebrate the arrival of Walker Sands to SF!).

Interested in learning more about how SF New Tech can help produce a special event for your organization?
Interested in sponsoring one or more of SF New Tech’s famous demo events?
Interested in becoming a “Friend of SF New Tech” to realize the benefits of free tickets, exposure, and more?

Drop a line and we’ll take good care of you!

Lastly, check out this awesome video from Deutsche-Welle TV that highlights SF New Tech and proclaims something we already knew: San Francisco is the city for startups!

Cheers!

Myles

PS: Big love to Outlook.com, btrax, Application Developer’s Alliance, CALinovates.org, and LeClairRyan for your continued support!

Very cool video segment on how SF’s tech culture is surpassing that of Silicon Valley as pegged by Deutsche Welle TV … with a glimpse of the awesome SF New Tech community and some commentary from yours truly!

 

 CrowdFlower, a leader in crowdsourcing microtasks, has created a new way to moderate images: RTFM (Real Time Foto Moderator). While it’s not quite the normal acronym that is associated with these letters (Read The F*ing Manual) it’s still rather amusing. RTFM is a crowdsourced photo moderation service provided by CrowdFlower.

The way it works is simple:

Send in your images
1. Send CrowdFlower the URL of an image via an HTTP request to their API.

Images go out to the crowd
2. RTFM sends images to CrowdFlower’s online global labor pool of more than 3.5 million workers. Moderators use an Image Wall interface that lets them efficiently screen images at scale.

Get results back
3. RTFM sends back results via web hook with an average turnaround time under 15 minutes. Each result is calculated based on the input of multiple trusted moderators.

RTFM is the first of many crowdsourcing web apps to come from CrowdFlower, a SF-based tech company founded in 2008. Since then, CrowdFlower has moderated close to 50 million photos.

Moderating photos, especially those from big social networks or sites, takes time and lots of resources. CrowdFlower recognized an opportunity to create a more efficient way to moderate these images by leveraging the crowd, and specifically targeted small app developers, community managers and/or anyone with a user base and a photo upload feature. The result was faster, more accurate and cost effective solutions.

RTFM pricing is structured on a per-image basis, however the first 500 images are FREE! Depending on which service plan you sign up for, images cost between $0.008-$0.02 per image.

Some of CrowdFlower’s clients, use RTFM to moderate 100% of photo content on their site, while others simply use it to get through the “night shift’ when their internal moderation employees go home. Some companies use it for a “first pass” scenario: anything that gets flagged on their site goes through RTFM. Then the real employees from company “X” review problematic images and decide on a course of action. This allows companies to minimize delays for photo moderation while keeping user experience positive.

And now a word from our sponsor:

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Also, if you want to get in for free, you’ll have to make an extra effort on sharing this blog post in your social networks and don’t forget to mention SFNT, CrowdFlower and of course CrowdConf. The most creative tweets, posts, etc., get the free goodies. Make sure to tweet us (@SFNEWTECH), me (@JMOTA3),  and CrowdFlower (@CrowdFlower) so we can keep track of the most creative posts.

A little late in posting this as I’ve been traveling around the wilds of NY and VT for the past few weeks.

But I needed to share the news ….

First, our Big Data Summer Bash with Flurry a was completely over the top where upwards of 500 of y’all joined us to celebrate Flurry’s newest success: AppCloud!  (Watch the slideshow and see!)



Flurry AppCloud empowers developers to build better apps faster while seamlessly handling cloud storage, user account management, push notifications and more.  It’s awesome.   Join the beta here.

Then, the very next day after our bash with Flurry, we announced a “mystery event” on 7.31 that promised big news from a mystery company, complete with food, drink and stellar entertainment at a cool, new venue….  and no other details.  Hmmm. Who could it be??

In less than 3 hours time, after announcing the “mystery event” (via our meetup.com list and via on our ever-growing email list) it sold out!  Boom!  Just like that!

And then over the next six days, hundreds of people added their names to the waiting list.  Trust me, I did my best responding to the deluge of inquiries from folks (you?) who really, really wanted to be there.  Sorry if you got shut out but we had capacity issues, otherwise if wish EVERYONE could have been there because it rocked!

On the morning of 7.31, we revealed the secret everyone who registered and those on the waiting list…

The big reveal was the launch of Microsoft’s Outlook.com! outlook.com

Hats off to you SF New Tech peeps for being the cool kids in town who Microsoft chose to usher in a brand new era of email with a kick ass party at 620 Jones headlined by The Lumineers, a band you may have heard of, Hey Ho!

 

Needless to say we reveled in new tech in a new way in July… and it felt good. 🙂

Last week, we were honored to see Brett Solomon, the Executive Director of Access, on the SF New Tech stage.

Brett didn’t demo anything, per se, but he did share news of how the internet is under constant threat, as well as some of the things Access is doing to help protect it.

One of the major initiatives Access recently launched is the Access Tech Innovation Awards which will provide $100,000 in prizes to individuals, organizations or networks that have the best actionable ideas of how to use information technology to promote and enable human rights or deliver a social good outcome.

Access Innovation Prize

Awarding $100,000 to the best innovations to help protect human rights online.

Prizes are divided into five categories:

Blackout Resilience: $20,000 will go to the best actionable idea to help build an open-sourced, blackout resilient technology for use by activists and human rights workers in conditions where there is a need for alternate communications infrastructure to the one put in place and/or controlled by the authorities. For example, where there has been a communication network shutdown.                           

Making Crypto Easy: $20,000 will go to the best actionable idea to properly integrate encryption into an existing product/system, educate users as to how to use encryption and/or build a community who use encryption by default.                        

The Bounty: A $20,000 bounty will be granted for the best patch for a disclosed or as yet undisclosed vulnerability in a program/platform or software used by human rights defenders and activists.

Golden Jellybean: This is an unthemed category. $20,000 will go to the best actionable idea of how communication technologies can be used to promote and enable human rights. This could include funding a researcher for $20,000; the development of a training guide for activists; a new censorship circumvention program; or an initiative to detect surveillance equipment on the network

Access Facebook Award: $20,000 will go to the best actionable idea of how to use the Facebook platform to deliver a human rights, human development or social good outcome. We’re looking for initiatives across the spectrum – from enhancing freedom of speech and expression to improving the economic well-being of a disadvantaged group. If you are applying for the Access Facebook Award – please read this.

Applications will be evaluated based on the impact, likelihood, innovation, and sustainability of the project or idea. For more information about the awards or to apply, please visit the prize website: https://www.accessnow.org/prize.  Applications are due August 15th.

Feel free to share the award information with anyone you think may be interested.

.@Accessnow Tech Prize: $100K to give away across 5 groups for ICT ideas 2 promote human rights. http://bit.ly/N1BMjP #netfreedom


photo by btrax



Hey SF New Tech Peeps! All the videos from our July 10 event with AccessNow.org, Syntellia, Clustrix, PoolParty, Fenrir, TheAppBuilder, Freedom Registry are posted.

Demos AccessNow, Syntellia, Clustrix, PoolParty, Fenrir, TheAppBuilder, Freedom Registry:
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photo by Adolfo Foronda



Happy 4th everyone! All the videos from our June 20 event are now posted. See the great presentations from Reddit, Waze, Crowdflower, Factoid Games, iBroadcast.tv, Zero1 and more here.

Travelling by car these days can be a bit much to deal with because everyone is always on the go (traffic) and gas prices aren’t quite so friendly on your pocketbook. Waze, a very intuitive, free app for your smartphone (iOS and Android) helps you get from point A to B in several different ways.


First and foremost, Waze has always been saving you time by being a fun, community-based GPS traffic and navigation app. Currently, with its latest update (3.2), you’re now able to save money by making it easy to save on gas, and who doesn’t want that? Waze helps you find the cheapist gas around you, or along your route. It also has specials at select gas stations. Simply redeem your digital coupon when you arive at the participation station and save. All the pricing, much like everything at Waze is updated by you, the community.


Another new feature is adding a stop along your “route”. You can choose through multiple “Search by Category” features. This feature is kind of like Foursquare’s explore option that they just added, however you get realtime ETA to both your stop and final destination.

Download your free app today and start saving time and money in the coolest waze possible.

Join us and our friends from VentureBeat at MobileBeat2012!
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Design is utterly dominating the mobile ecosystem
The most successful players are focusing on one thing: How to make products, services, and devices as compelling and delightful as possible – both visually, and experientially.MobileBeat 2012 — July 10-11 in San Francisco, CA — is assembling the most elite minds to debate how user interface and experience (UI/UX) is transforming every aspect of the mobile economy.

Speakers include:

    • Mark Pincus, Founder & CEO, Zynga
    • Dave Morin, Co-Founder & CEO, Path
    • Hill Ferguson, Head of Mobile, Paypal
    • Mark Curtis, Founder, Fjord
    • Chris Weber, President (US), Nokia
    • Jason Spero, Head of Mobile, Google
    • Michael Spiegelman, Director of Product Innovation, Netflix
    • Michael Bayle, SVP, ESPN Mobile
    • Scott Dadich, VP Digital Development, Conde Nast
    • Tom Conrad, Chief Technology Officer, Pandora
    • Joff Redfern, Head of Mobile Products, LinkedIn
    • Yves Behar, Founder, fuseproject
    • Plus many more! (full list here)

Register here with promo code “SFNT” and get 15% off.

Always a program highlight, the “Innovation Competition” will uncover 15 of the hottest new mobile companies as they pitch their products/services live onstage in front of an expert panel of judges and over 1000 attendees.

Join in and learn where the biggest opportunities lie, the pitfalls to avoid, and how to position your company to win on the new “design” battleground.

Grab your ticket now with promo code “SFNT” and get 15% off!

Demos from Reddit, Waze, Crowdflower, Factoid Games, iBroadcast.tv, Zero1 and more!
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Demos from Moodstocks, Bime, Sculpteo, Vesalis, Webshell, Nanomade, Neiio & more!
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Demos from Hotmail, P6, EVR1, Glomper, Entryless, Vitamin T & more!
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Yeah!

 

Good times last night, per usual.  If you missed it, you missed it.  Maybe we’ll see you at the next one on 6/6 for the Best of the French Tech Tour!

In the meantime, please check out the night as it was Storified by clicking here.

If you’re interested in connecting with Vitamin T about your recruiting needs and/or would like to reach out to our friends at Hotmail or any other presenting companies last night, please tweet at us @sfnewtech and we’ll make it happen.

Also, as promised, here are the 60 Second Spots from last night.  Go track down that lead.

Greg Viloria
greg@btrax.com
btrax, Inc
http://www.btrax.com
Seeking beta testers for an app, contact alice@btrax.com;

Ayako Hasegawa
hasegawa@motionbeat.com
motionBeat
http://www.motionbeat.com
Seeking advertisers for our mobile advertising platform, if you connect to asia and mobile see us!

Jennifer Willard
jhwillard@gmail.com
Women in AV
http://womeninav.com
Please share information with all the women and men you know in STEM industries about www.womeninav.com and www.ravepubs.com to learn more about the AV industry!

cesar villuela
cvilluela@excal.es
california spain chamber of commerce
http://WWW.CALIFORNIASPAINCHAMBER.ORG
Helping producers in spain to bring their products here and also help american companies to find opportunities in spain

Sam Rahimi
sam@ibroadcast.tv
IBroadcast.TV
http://ibroadcast.tv
Seeking new users for our social video beta, partnerships with content providers, seed capital.