Post and video by Miiko Mentz On Friday, we posted our highlight reel of the Bubby Award winners and every day this week we’ll be posting one interview from each of the five winners. Bubblicious Reporter Alison McNeill recently presented the Bubby awards to each winner at Twiistup 5, which was...

words and pictures by Brian Solis Twiistup 5 just set  a new bar for startup tech events, not just in LA, but across the globe. Set in “Hanger 8″ at the Santa Monica airport, Twiistup transformed the open space into live set straight from of Blade Runner. Drenched in atomosphere setting...

The Los Angeles technology crowd turned out in full for last week's Twiistup 5 event--a showcase for startups looking for exposure and funding--with over 1,000 attendees at a private aircraft hangar at the Santa Monica airport. The winner of the judge's choice award was Cogi, a Santa Barbara-based f...

Social media allows for an immediate way to interact and engage with people and companies online. There are the obvious sites that allow for social networking, but social media done right can aspire to be so much more. We thought we’d highlight three notable Twiistup showoffs who are doing big...

My fellow judges and I huddled over 100 applications submitted by hopeful, innovative tech companies, to select the top 10 “showoffs” for Twiistup 5 in Los Angeles this February 2009 - an event so huge, that it has to be hosted in an airplane hanger. Judges include: Sarah Lacy, Jackie Pe...