DANNY BECKETT JR.
I consider myself three things: Communicator, leader, warrior. I make stuff and things happen. Let's talk.

From the New York Times to Glamour Magazine, a universal question continues to percolate - why are women underrepresented in the tech industry? Explore the role mentorship plays in building a stronger and more inclusive community, while expanding opportunities for women to ascend to leadership roles. Panel discussion will examine the impact of...

Ben Silbermann is a co-founder of Pinterest, an online Pinboard that lets you organize and share things you love. It also just happens to be one of the fastest growing website in the world with more than 5MM active monthly users, and doubling in growth every few months. Previously Ben was a Product Specialist at Google and attended Yale...

BILL REICHERT, President of Garage Technology Ventures

Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive.

Mr. Reichert brings his experience as a serial entrepreneur to his work with Garage’s portfolio companies. Prior to joining Garage in early 1998, he was co-founder of Academic Systems, a software...

500 Startups provides early-stage companies with funding ranging from $10K to $250K via seed investments, a startup accelerator program, and new micro-fund models like the Twilio Fund. With over 160 experienced startup mentors around the world, creative work space in the heart of Silicon Valley, and a vibrant community of startup founders, they...

Larry Chiang writes about entrepreneurship and pre-entrepreneurship. He edits the Bloomberg BusinessWeek channel “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. After Chiang’s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (the same title as his NY Times bestseller). If you read...

Both men and women are invited to Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition (February 14, 2012 in Mountain View, CA). Over 800 members of the digerati interested in up-and-coming trends in technology and innovation will be mobilizing to learn from the leaders of technology startups and companies as they share best practices, growth strategies...

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Miss us? We missed you too. So much so that we are going to start 2012 with a big bang with the LeanLA incubator/accelerator event. I don't know if you guys noticed but incubators have been popping up in LA like mushrooms after a rainstorm in the last few months.

[*insert hilarious sound effect of mushroom popping up here]

We've...

The Crunchies Awards celebrate the best tech accomplishments of 2011. Co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, we will announce winners from 20 different award categories live on stage at the event. We will have special guest appearances and entertainment too.
The ceremony is to be held on Tuesday January 31, 2011 at 7:30 pm at the Louise M...

David Cohen is coming to town!