Life in #SiliconValley Meet up with Wylie Gustafson of @yahoo fame @yodelking59425 . You may not recognize the face but you know the voice! He gave me my very own personal yodel!! Very exciting! Wylie is from my 2nd favorite state #montana and is in #sf to open for the band #fun . I know I never do #yahoo post but im a huge fan of the #yodel YAHOOOOOOOOOOO. I hope the brand can catch up and be as memorable as Wylie instead of just a memory! #startuplife #startup #tech #nerd #geek #techfamous #bayarea #ThatTechGirl is on it!!!
Here’s the pitch bill for the upcoming SF New Tech on 3/20. You will see pitches from Evernote,
Litterati, Townten, Open Garden, Sensus, Shoplocket, WeFile.it, and Herdmark.
Nerd Stalker will be there as SF New Tech’s media partner. Tickets are still available here.
Rafe Needleman of Evernote
Meet Rafe Needleman – the Platform Advocate at Evernote. Rafe will be one of the presenters pitching at SF New Tech’s 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.”
Meet Jeff Kirschner – Founder of the Litterati. Jeff will pitching at SF New Tech’s 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. “
Meet Matt Pacyga – the Chief Strategist at Canopy. He will be pitching Sensus and its API for developers at SF New Tech’s 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.”
Meet Manuel Acevedo – the CEO at Townten. He will be pitching a local search engine called Townten. 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 |
Micha A. Benoliel of Open Garden
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.”
Meet Katherine Hague from ShopLocket – SF New Tech’s 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.”
Meet Mathew Guiver, the “life-long entrepreneur” and tax-time friend at WeFile.it. He will be pitching us at SF New Tech’s 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.
“I started WeFile.it to do something disruptive in the tax space. A majority of the clients at the consulting firm I started after college were in the tax and finance industry. It gave me a first hand look into how outdated their products are, and quite honestly, the amount of corruption that runs rampant in the industry.”
Meet C.J. MacDonald, one of the founders at Herdmark. He will be on the bill for SF New Tech’s 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
This post is not about a start up, coding, funding or disruption …..its actually about makeup!
I recently posted a picture of me attempting to do my own eye make up and was flooded with comments about my skin, so I thought I would post my response for everyone to see.
Makeup is fun, key, and a must for most girls….but not That Tech Girl!
Make up to me is simple and meant to highlight your beauty, not cover it up. I have done a 5 minute makeup routine for years! However I have realized that I should be prepared in the event I have to do my own make up for film and television so I have started studying on YouTube. I have been blown away with all of the talent sharing tips.
Film make up is completely different from day to day make up. I find many people don’t know the difference or perhaps they just don’t care. For a regular day- to- day- there- are- no- red- carpets- or- cameras- following- me look, LESS is always best! For a camera ready look you will always want to go outside of your comfort zone and PACK IT ON!
I know I know make up and Tech don’t really seem to fit but guess what…THEY go hand and hand.
Makeup is a form a technology, it is a tool used to get you from where you currently are to where you want to be. It is a tool used as real life social media. It says a lot about you whether you like it or not.
So to get to the point and answer the question proposed to me by a number of people…..
HOW DOES YOUR MAKE UP LAY SO EFFORTLESSLY AND WHY IS YOUR SKIN SO CLEAR???….
SKIN CARE IS SUN PREVENTION:
I wear SPF 70 or higher EVERYDAY
On cloudy or rainy days I drop down to SPF 30
I do not consume more than 30 minutes of direct sunlight per day
I do not sleep in make up…DO NOT DO IT
I do not drink alcohol
I do not smoke or hang around smokers…I avoid 1, 2, 3rd hand smoke whenever possible
I do not have direct contact with the sun longer than 5-10 min at a time.
I ALWAYS use an umbrella /parasol/EXTRA large brim hat if I must be out in the sun (I shop coolibar.com
There you go that is the secret!
I would love to here your skin care tips!
That Tech Girl, is Liberty Madison, a technology TV host & producer, lecture and contributor
This male dominated field is poised for disruption!
Join other Disrupters in San Francisco on Thurs Oct 18,2012
Zendesk presents: Can the tech industry disrupt the status quo of women at work?
October is “Innovation Month” in the city of San Francisco, and the Mayors Office of Civic Innovation has launched an initiative to spotlight the organizations and entrepreneurs that make up today’s generation of innovators.
As part of this initiative, Zendesk, along with sf.citi, is hosting a lively conversation on Thurs, Oct 18, featuring Jon Erlichman of Bloomberg and execs from Zoosk, Vayable, BlackGirlsCode, Zendesk, and Women 2.0.
From Marissa Mayer’s rise to Yahoo CEO (while pregnant), to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s controversial Atlantic Monthly article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All”, and the heated presidential campaign underway, the debate about what it is to be a 21st-century woman continues to be hotly debated.
Can the tech industry rethink the traditional workforce and put women on an even playing field?
Join us for a conversation about how some of the leading stars in San Francisco’s startup community see the evolution of the workplace within the tech industry.
Moderator:
– Jon Erlichman, Sr. West Coast Correspondent, Bloomberg
Panelists:
– Kelly Steckelberg, CFO & COO, Zoosk
– Jamie Wong, CEO, Vayable
– Kimberly Bryant, Founder, BlackGirlsCode
– Sepi Nasiri, VP, Women 2.0
– Saroj Yadav, Sr. Software Engineer, Zendesk
Date:
Thurs, Oct 18, 2012to be held at Zendesk, 989 Market Street.
Schedule:
6:00-6:30 pm, registration & networking
6:30-7:30 pm, panel presentation and Q&A questions
7:30-8:00 pm, drinks
We encourge anyone from the tech industry or other professionals to join us for this conversation.
More about Innovation Month:
The Mayors Office of Civic Innovation has launched in partnership with Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA), Office of Economic Workforce Development, sf.citi, San Francisco Travel, and Golightly House to spotlight the organizations and entrepreneurs that make up today’s generation of innovators.
Innovation Month helps tell the story of San Francisco as the best place to live, work and play. More than any other city, San Francisco is uniquely poised to innovate and invent the future right here, right now, by capitalizing on our greatest resource – our people. And innovation isn’t just about technology – it’s about a different way of thinking and approaching our problems. It is through innovative approaches to crime fighting and community involvement that San Francisco remains one of the safest big cities in America. It is through new ways to make it easier for companies to do business in SF.
Info www.sfciti.com
