Please join us for our Inaugural Tech Cocktail Sessions San Francisco Event Secure your ticket now and save $10. What's the difference between someone with a dream and somone running a startup company? Action. The world is full of people with ideas and dreams, but many don't know how to take the first steps to turn those ideas into reality. At this special inaugural Tech...
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Please join us for our Inaugural Tech Cocktail Sessions San Francisco Event Secure your ticket now and save $10. What's the difference between someone with a dream and somone running a startup company? Action. The world is full of people with ideas and dreams, but many don't know how to take the first steps to turn those ideas into reality. At this special inaugural Tech Cocktail Sessions San Francisco event, you'll hear form local entrepreneures who were able to take their visision and turn it into companies. Sessions, Tech Cocktail's new speaker series, brings the experiences of successful entrepreneurs to you so you can learn to succeed and learn lessons for your startup. Hear their stories in their own words and ask them your questions in an intimate setting. This month they'll focus on startup inspiration and taking those important first steps to get started. Startup Inspiration: Turning Ideas Into Action Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. PST FEATURED SPEAKER Matt Galligan is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco and is the CEO and Co-founder of Circa. He co-founded the company alongside Ben Huh and Arsenio Santos in 2011. Circa is bringing news to the mobile age. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, it's is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. Prior to founding Circa, Matt founded two other companies. In 2007, he co-founded and was the CEO of Socialthing, a service that made it easy to keep up with friends’ activity from multiple social networks. Socialthing was acquired by AOL in 2008. After his time at AOL, Matt went on to found SimpleGeo in 2009 with Joe Stump, which provided a geolocation infrastructure-as-a-service for developers to easily add location-aware elements to consumer and business applications