How to Build a Great Technology Team – Startups Uncensored #16
This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “How to Build a Great Technology Team”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about the experience, process and skills need to build an all-star caliber technology team.
We’ll be welcoming as our speakers: Alon Shwartz the Co-Founder/CTO of Docstoc, Nick Wilson the EVP/CTO of Break.com, Allen Hurff the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at MySpace, Travlin McCormack the CTO of Internships.com and former CTO of Slingshot Labs, and Nitu Gulati-Pauly Director of Recruiting at Cybercoders.
These events are put on in conjunction with our friends at DealMaker Media. TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT, CLICK HERE
The event is free and is followed by a reception and mixer at the Docstoc Offices in Santa Monica by the 3rd Street Promenade. The venue holds about 140 folks, ALL PREVIOUS EVENTS WERE FULL WITH STANDING ROOM ONLY. If you are not one of the first 140 to RSVP and confirm, we will have a waiting list.
Wednesday, April 21st 6:30pm – 8:00pm (Townhall)…. 8:00pm on, Reception
Cost: FREE
This event is capped at 140 attendees.
Confirmation will be required or your spot will be given up for our waiting list.
Santa Monica Public Library (Auditorium) 601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT, CLICK HERE
We would also like to welcome our new sponsor Microsoft Bizspark, please take a moment and check out their amazing resources of free software for startups and entrepreneurs: http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/ . We’re going to be making some BIG announcements at our April session including a new venue we’ll start using for our May session and a new and improved format where 3 startups will have the opportunity to present to a group of investors during each Startups Uncensored. Stay tuned…
I have been trying to sign up for the April 21 event, but the form will not accept my information. Please let me know how to fill this out.
–Jan Nagel
Entertainment Marketing Diva
jannagel@myexcel.com
What a good event to bring the community together. Thank you.
I showed up for this event,which I had signed up for and received a confirmation email about. I showed up at 6:30pm and was turned away. How can you coach people on running a business when you don’t know how to run one of your own? I’m not impressed. I didn’t see a list of names. I saw tickets being given out to the first people in line. I was told that I could wait outside for 1 1/2 hours so that I could attend the mixer. I have responsibilities and had carved out this particulr 1 1/2 hours so that I could attend. If attendance is an issue then start charging people and guaranteeing spots. This race to the start of the line, after confirming your attendance, is bogus.
I don’t want to say that I fully agree with Melissa but I drove 30 minutes in traffic to an event that I was in the guest list for to be turned away at the door. It was embarrassing and disappointing and can be improved in a couple different ways.
1. Charge for guaranteed admission.
2. Overflow / livestreaming room so that no-one get turned away.
Or most importantly … Number 3:
3. Explain the willy wonka golden ticket system in advance so that I know I am supposed to be there at 6 pm if I want to get any everlasting gobstoppers.
Oh and number 4.
4. Shameless plug, please click my name to see the service I wanted to tell you all about in person. Don’t like my shameless plug? Well see you next month at number 17.
-jason@pys.me
I showed up for this event,which I had signed up for and received a confirmation email about. I showed up at 6:30pm and was turned away. How can you coach people on running a business when you don’t know how to run one of your own? I’m not impressed. I didn’t see a list of names. I saw tickets being given out to the first people in line. I was told that I could wait outside for 1 1/2 hours so that I could attend the mixer. I have responsibilities and had carved out this particulr 1 1/2 hours so that I could attend. If attendance is an issue then start charging people and guaranteeing spots. This race to the start of the line, after confirming your attendance, is bogus.
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I would love to see a transcript of this event, is this something you can do? Why not share the lessons from the event with the world?
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