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vinnie

wikipedia = 100 million hours of human thought, TV watching = 200 billion hours/year. That's 2,000 wikipedia projects every year... [Clay Shirky]

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2 months ago

SVNewTech – Tue Jan 5 – Happy 4th Birthday! Big night planned (mobile, term sheets, and more)


Happy Birthday to us!

The SVNewTech started in Jan of 2006, and in 4 years we’re now 4,700 members strong!  Take advantage of our community offline on our LinkedIn Group.

Tonight we’ll be featuring 3 hot startups with pretty killer iphone services, some with true business models!!!  We also have another speaker of our Expert Talk Series – Brad Rock who you all know as the gracious host to introduce each night will be giving a talk on putting a Term Sheet together.

Google Wave – We’ll also have a few bloggers testing out the real-time collaboration of google wave, if you’d like to participate, at 7pm enter the following in the Google Wave search box: tag:SVNewTech with:public

And a reminder, isocket and meetup are hiring, info below.

If you can’t make tonight, 7pm Live Stream:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/svnewtech

Lineup:


apptizr.com – iphone app suggestion service that actually works.  It’s like Netflix for apps on your phone. [David Li]


iformbuilder.com – Data Collection on the iphone, that is super easy to build and use.  Some customers include Hershey Chocolates, Comcast, and a number of Universities.  [Chris Reichart]


thinkcomputer.com – Will be launching a new mobile payments service that really impressed me – I think you will be impressed too. [Aaron G. & Michael Anderson]


Expert Talk Series – Putting a Term Sheet together. [Brad Rock, Partner DLA]

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When: Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009 7:00 PM
Where: DLA Piper, 2000 University Ave, Palo Alto
Morehttp://meetup.com/svnewtech
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Links & Give-aways

  • Are you an Ad Publisher looking to get more money from ads and share tips with other publishers?  Then join the new meetup I’m starting next week.  http://bit.ly/sfadpub
  • FREE – IBM Developer Cloud beta: Request base OS servers and load the stack you like, or try out images of IBM software. RESTful API available.  http://ibm.com/cloud/developer
  • Watch December’s Expert Series Talk, How To ‘Use’ your Users.  http://bit.ly/use-users
  • Want to demo your service at a future meetup? http://demo.newtechmeetup.org

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They’re hiring [Sponsored Section]

  • isocket is a hot new ad platform that just landed some top funding and TechCrunch as their first beta tester. They’re adding a few backend web devs to their small and talented team. Apply – http://www.isocket.com/jobs
  • Meetup is looking for superstar engineers to move to New York City http://meetup.com/jobs (mention this email)
  • Your company here – email vincent -dot- lauria -at- gmail -dot- com

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A special thank you to:

  • The New York Times for sponsoring this meetup – nyt.com
  • Meetup.com who is looking to hire superstar engineers wanting to move to NYC meetup.com/jobs
  • DLA Piper for hosting us each and every month – dlapiper.com
  • Future-works.com for providing wine & beer at tonight’s event.
  • [Your Company Here] -> Email vincent -dot- lauria -at- gmail -dot- com

Happy Birthday & Happy New Year,

Vinnie

2 months ago

SVNewTech - January Job Board


SVNewTech Job Board
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* Sheela - product marketing , marketing, strategy, business planning,  <sursal@yahoo.com>, 
* Result driven Product / Program Manager, more than 15 years experience in Broadband connection, VoIP, SIP, 802.11, PSTN, AIN, Networking, TCP/IP,  <eshragh04@yahoo.com>, 
* Anshul Madan - Systems Engineer Internship,  <anshulmadan@cmu.edu>, http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=21758175
* Your name here - http://bit.ly/svnt-jobs


They're hiring [Sponsored Section]
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“isocket is a hot new ad platform that just landed some top funding and TechCrunch as their first beta tester. They’re adding a few backend web devs to their small and talented team. Apply - http://www.isocket.com/jobs
* Meetup is looking for superstar engineers to move to New York City http://meetup.com/jobs (mention this email)
* Your company here - email me

3 months, 1 week ago

SVNewTech December Job Board


SVNewTech Job Board
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They're hiring
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3 months, 1 week ago

Tue Dec 1 – Wrapping up Year Three of the SVNewTech Meetup


With 2009 ending, we’ll also be wrapping up our 3rd year as a group.  Jan 2010 will be our 4 year birthday!  We have great demos and an Expert Talk tonight, and I’ll leave a little time to field any questions you might have about the meetup for a year-end wrapup.

If you can’t make tonight, 7pm Live Stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/svnewtech

Lineup:

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likeminds.com – Share your ratings from different websites like Netflix, Amazon, iTunes and discover new favorites. [Alan ElSheshai]

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breakthrough.com – Counseling & psychiatry over the web. Lower costs than traditional methods, yet offers the same effectiveness and the ability to prescribe medicines. [Mark Goldenson]

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rrripple.com – A cool interface that allows you to organize and share your media with whoever you want, however you want. [Dan Smucker]

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A tongue-in-cheek approach at getting the most out of the community using your web product.

Expert Talk Series: How To ‘Use’ your Users – A tongue-in-cheek approach at getting the most out of the community using your web product. [me]

Year 3 Wrap-up

Links

  • Apply to showcase your startup to tech trend-setters and VC’s at SXSW in March.  Deadline is this Friday. If you’re in bootstap mode, email chris@sxsw.com and he may be able to waive the fee. http://bit.ly/8V9Om0/
  • Are you an Ad Publisher looking to get more money from ads and share tips with other publishers?  Then join the new meetup I’m starting in January.http://bit.ly/sfadpub

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They’re hiring


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When: Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009 7:00 PM
Where: DLA Piper, 2000 University Ave, Palo Alto

4 months, 1 week ago

November Job Board


SVNewTech Job Board
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* Bob Thronson - B2B software marketing executive, <bob.thronson@gmail.com>, http://linkedin.com/in/bobthronson
* Nicholas Key - Java Application Developer, <nicholaskeytholeong@gmail.com>, http://nicholaskey.blogspot.com
* Internet Marketing,  <hkurwa@gmail.com>, 
* Engineering Consultant in reliability and/or safety management consulting.,  <awzummm@gmail.com>, 
* Carol  - Strategic Marketing Executive Drives Revenue and Brand Awareness,  <CarolSmith2@gmail.com>, http://linkedin.com/in/carolfsmith


They're hiring
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* Ning is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer, Product Managers, Designers, Oracle (11g) DBA and Database Architect. http://about.ning.com/openings.php Contact priya@ning.com and mention this newsletter.
* Meetup is looking for superstar engineers to move to New York City http://meetup.com/jobs (mention this email)

5 months, 1 week ago

Oct Job Boards

SVNewTech Job Board

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People within the SV NewTech meetup community looking for new jobs:

* Eric Chin - B2B Product Marketing,  <echin@pacbell.net>, 

* Art Fernandez - Online Product Manager - Social Media,  <artfer01@yahoo.com>, http://www.linkedin.com/in/artfernandez

* Luca Candela - Project Manager, UX Expert,  <luca.candela@gmail.com>, http://www.box.net/shared/zvuylfv2ld

* Samuel Betha - MBA Finance with Bachelors in Computer Science seeking Investment Management roles,  <sunnybrsrao@gmail.com>, www.linkedin.com/in/samuelbetha

* [Your Name Here] -> http://tr.im/svntjobs



They're hiring

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Meetup members looking to hire:

*  Developers for Equity Next-gen startup needs UI developers to code our designs.  XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flex. Investors are interested.,  <TLP.resume@gmail.com>, 

* Seeking Senior Engineer/Architect to lead prototype development for early stage startup/part-time or fulltime /equity and cash ,  <personalfinancematters@gmail.com>, 

* Kaboodle is hiring a Senior UI Designer,  <kristi@kaboodle.com>, http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-JPVA96SVGD4

* Mysoiree.net is expanding, looking for biz dev in e-comm, tech. types for search and data mining, and tech type for livestream web, lyn@Mysoiree.net

* TubeMogul is looking for a few bright Engineers to work at the nexus of online video.  http://www.tubemogul.com/about/jobs.

* Kosmix is Hiring! We’re looking for superstars in the world of Categorization, Release, Information Retrieval, Systems Engineering and Relevance Architecture. Contact us at http://www.kosmix.com/corp/jobs.

* Meetup is looking for superstar engineers to move to New York City http://meetup.com/jobs

* [Your Company Here] -> Email me.



5 months, 1 week ago

Tue Oct 6 - Four companies w/ solid ideas & $2,400 in free giveaway's below


trekaroo.com - A travel site focusing on a large interested community - families with kids.  Find activities, share advice, and travel to all corners of the world. [Brennan Pang & LiLing Pang]

 


uShow.com - Turn your twitter fans into a video channel.  Login to create a video channel with the videos your friends are sharing. [Joe Shapiro]

 


workingpoint.com - Simple invoicing and bookkeeping.  There in prime territory after Mint’s acquisition. [Tate Holt]

 

plurchase.com - A secret y-combinator company that’s going to give you a sneak-peak before anyone else. [Tom Saffell]

 

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When: Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009 7:00 PM
Where: DLA Piper, 2000 University Ave, Palo Alto
Morehttp://meetup.com/svnewtech
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Reminder - the newsletter I send via meetup.com has $2,400 worth of free ticket giveaways to the first to act!  I work hard to sneak in free giveaways to the group each month.

6 months, 1 week ago

September Job Boards

SVNewTech Job Board
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People within the SV NewTech meetup community looking for new jobs:
* QA / Test engineer, <tatyana.z@gmail.com>,
* Peter Alexander - V.P./Director; Sales; Bus. Dev,  <petergreat@earthlink.net>, petergreat@earthlink.net
* Kirk Lawrence - Product Management,  <kirk_lawrence@yahoo.com>, http://www.linkedin.com/in/kirklawrence
* [Your Name Here] -> http://tr.im/svntjobs
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They’re hiring
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Meetup members looking to hire:
* Philips Healthcare, Foster City - looking for C++ and C# developers http://bit.ly/PhilipsFC
* Meetup is looking for superstar engineers to move to New York City and is hosting a SV job meetup: http://bit.ly/T9frg
* [Your Company Here] -> Email me.
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6 months, 1 week ago

Tue Sep 1 - Ratings, Reviews, Notifications, Filtering, and hear from an Alexa Top 100 website

The Lineup
feedbackjar.com - Allows customers at the local level to help answer questions and share ideas on products and services they use in their local community. [Nick Leung]
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nutshellmail.com - Get a single email sent on your own schedule that includes updates and notifications from all your social networks. [David Neubauer]
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philtro.com - Filter out all that noise on your twitter account  with a simple but intelligent rating system. [Paul Singh]
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imageshack.us / yfrog.com - ImageShack is the in the Alexa Top 100 (#61) websites across the entire web.  Learn about what they’ve done and where they’re going with their new yfrog service and twitter. [Mike Harkey & Jack Levin]
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When: Tuesday, Sep 1, 2009 7:00 PM
Where: DLA Piper, 2000 University Ave, Palo Alto

7 months, 1 week ago

YourVersion Beta Login just for SVNEWTECH members

From Dan of YourVersion.com:

I wanted to allow any SVNewTech'r to sign up for the YourVersion private beta (in case they weren't able to attend last night's Meetup).I've set up the special URL http://www.yourversion.com/svnewtech where they can access the private beta.