Lonely Walls is smooth way to decorate your space with visual arts!!

Lonely Walls is a mobile app, smooth way to decorate your space with visual arts. Our core product is a mobile application that leverages augmented reality in order to make experience of purchasing art more convenient.

ZBOARD is a cool way to get around!!!

Intuitive Motion designs, manufactures, and sells the ZBoard Weight-Sensing Electric Skateboard. Intuitive Motion began with as a group of engineers with the desire to ride a better skateboard, and a vision of how to do it. 

Gutensite is the stealthy blog platform that is taking over the world!!!!

Gutensite is a California design firm that helps small businesses and non-profits build and manage brilliant websites. Gutensite’s intuitive CMS is the backbone of an affordable, full-service ecosystem that supports clients with strategy, design, development and ongoing website management.

Gutensite was originally founded in San Francisco in 2002 as a boutique design firm and launched the beta version of their CMS in 2008 after years of learning what small businesses need. Gutensite is now scaling their platform and attracting other design agencies who need a great CMS and a technical partner to help them serve a wider client base.

Geeks On A Beach is a hot new Tech Conference!!!!

Geeks On A Beach is a brand new conference for everyone who is passionate about startups, technology, design, and making the world a better place.

Featuring presentations from hand-picked experts from all across the world. GOAB is the perfect place to come and share learnings and stories with new friends in a three day get-together by the shores of splendid Boracay island in the Philippines.

Executive Briefing: San Francisco-Manila Sister City Business Mission!!!!!

The Philippines is a growing financial power. Learn how you and your business will benefit from joining the Business Mission that is being organized with the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry this November and explore excellent trade, business and investment opportunities in one of the world’s leading emerging markets of today.

Discussed where business opportunities in:

Construction and Infrastructure Development

Education and Training

Project Management and Consultancy

Information Technology  and Business Support

Creatives and Design

Green Technologies and Renewable Energy

Banking and Finance

Internationally Funded Development Projects across Asia

Merchandise Trade: Exports and Imports

Springleap is not just Africa’s version of Threadless!!!!!

Springleap is not just Africa’s version of Threadless, it’s a shot of adrenaline to South Africa’s textile industry. In a nutshell, artists’ designs are voted on by the Springleap community and the winning design gets emblazoned on t-shirts which go up for sale. There are also cash prizes up for grabs for designers and community members.With Springleap artists gain recognition, community members can grow to become tastemakers and the rest of the world can buy fantastically unique and beautiful t-shirt designs.

Bloomberg and NBBJ bring us Data vs. Delight!!!!!!

On Thursday, July 18th, 2013 at 6:30pm at Bloomberg San Francisco NBBJ and Bloomberg, held an event to discuss whether or not we should the workplace of today be driven by people analytics. Experts from leading technology companies in the fields of social sciences and architecture debate work in the era of mobility, big data and the cloud.

The Moderator

Peter Burrows, Senior Correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek. Peter Burrows is based in San Francisco. Previously, he was senior correspondent in Silicon Valley. Burrows joined BusinessWeek in 1993 in Dallas. Prior to BusinessWeek, he was a senior editor for Electronic Business. Burrows wrote Backfire: Carly Fiorina's High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard.

The Panel

Scott Chacon is the CIO and co-founder of GitHub, where he is currently overseeing the design and build out of the company’s new headquarters, from HVAC to bike racks and everything in between. A long time Git evangelist, Scott is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress and the maintainer of the Git homepage. He has presented at dozens of conferences around the world on Git, GitHub, and the future of work. 

Marina Gorbis is a futurist and social scientist who serves as Executive Director to the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a Silicon Valley nonprofit research and consulting organization.Marina’s current research focuses on how social production is changing the face of major industries, a topic explored in detail in her book, The Nature of the Future.

As Senior Director of Human Resources, Britt Sellin’s role is to enable Cloudera and its employees to be as effective as possible, while reflecting the best of open source - collaborative, communicative and open. Prior to joining Cloudera, Britt held senior positions at VMware and Sun Microsystems, as it expanded from 12,500 employees to 44,000.

Evan Wittenberg is Chief of People, SVP, People at Box. As chief human resources officer, he leads a team that finds, develops and retains the company’s talent while maintaining the unique culture at Box. Prior to joining Box, Evan was Hewlett-Packard’s Chief Talent Officer where he was responsible for a global workforce of 350,000 employees.

Scott Wyatt, Architect and Managing Partner, NBBJ is an NBBJ Managing Partner, overseeing the talents, accomplishments and business strategies of the firm’s ten offices. Scott has led the creation of new global headquarters for some of the world’s foremost corporations including Boeing, Samsung, Reebok, Telenor, Adobe, Amgen and the Frank Russell Company. 

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Meet Homepolish, the bootstrapped design company decorating NYC’s startup offices!!!!!!!

Meet Homepolish, the bootstrapped design company that’s decorating NYC’s startup offices (via Pando Daily)

By Erin Griffith On July 1, 2013 New York-based Homepolish has been around for a year, but it has only recently become well-known in startup circles. Part of the company’s relative anonymity is because it hasn’t raised any outside venture capital…

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