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The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program At a recent Mixergy tech event, Alex Funk of digital-telepathy told me that he’s amazed that some companies don’t have a widget strategy. He’s been giving presentations about how companies can use widgets to grow, and [...]

Olexiy Prokhorenko of atomkeep surprised me over the weekend by adding Mixergy to his site. Now, if you use atomkeep, you can sync your Mixergy profile with your profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, and a growing list of other sites. I met Olexiy at a Mixergy event. When his site launched, he asked me for a [...]

Here’s your Mixergy online invitation to a free session about how to raise money and grow your startup. It’s being led by William Quigley, Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners. This event came together by mutual request. Just about every time I talk with William he tells me that he wants to reach out to [...]

Mixergy is putting together a new event to help SoCal startups get feedback and exposure. If you’re working on a startup, apply below to join. It’s called, “Strut Your Startup” and you can think of it as American Idol for startups. If you have a working project, we’ll give you 5 minutes on stage to [...]

The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. I met Deborah Shadovitz at a Mixergy event. When she told me about all the conferences that she worked on and that she organized MacGathering and MacDayLA, I asked her to get a call with me and teach me some of the basics. [...]

This is a guest post by Robert Richman, social media strategist. He can be reached at Robert(at)Richman.LA and you can follow his thoughts at http://twitter.com/richman17. Photo by m. Marc Salsberry Let’s call it social media mania, shall we? Everyone is high at the thought of super-viral instant live video collaborative aggregation feeds (with an open [...]

At about 10:00 last night, when a van swerved into the bike lane on the PCH where I was cycling, I decided to stop riding. I know how dangerous the PCH can be and didn’t want to end up another PCH casualty. I called my girlfriend and we both called every Ventura cab company we [...]

My primary goal with the events that I organize on Mixergy.com is to give startups the connections that’ll help them leave their mark on the world. I recently got some help with my mission from the Annenberg Program on Online Communities (APOC) @ the University of Southern California. APOC is helping to pay for my [...]

The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program Did you notice on Monday how many blogs talked about Dave Balter’s book, “The Word of Mouth Manual, Volume II”? Godin, Kawasaki, Peters, and a bunch of others talked about it. The guy really knows how [...]

At the Mixergy Funding Forum, a few people asked to see a sample executive summary. Danny Scalisi of MyLifeBrand.com offered to help. He’s letting you peak at his executive summary. What makes this especially helpful is that it’s not the fake “Company XYZ” example that we see in business plan books. It’s a real example [...]

The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. About Tara Hunt Have you noticed this: – Guy Kawasaki launches a site and on its first day his site gets 261,214 hits. – Jason Calacanis asks for feedback on a design idea for his site and hundreds of people contribute thoughtful ideas. [...]

Melani Gordon of gWave Consulting opened up her rooftop sky box for a Web 2.0 Mixergy event. If you weren’t there, here’s what and who you missed. To see more pictures, join the Mixergy page on Facebook. Here’s a video of Melani Gordon talking about her company and why she did this Mixergy event: Basil [...]