Hi Everyone,
I have some very big news that I've always hoped to be able to announce here on the blog. We made it onto TechCrunch yesterday:
Check out the post about us
Duncan Riley, one of the lead writers on TechCrunch, asked start-ups to send in an elevator pitch, which is just a quick, 1 minute, video that quickly explains what your company does and why people should use/invest in it. Last Sunday when Duncan asked for companies to submit their elevator pitch I spent some time putting together a quick video, and then sent it off to Duncan. As chance would have that time paid off, and my video and a link to our website was posted on TechCrunch, which is the most popular blog/website for our web industry. I've seen a lot of positive come from this already with many new visitors, new business, and a lot of people sending us emails congratulating us. We are close to getting some other stories written about us as well in the local newspapers here in Southern California, but to be posted on TechCrunch, a blog I read everyday, is another honor in itself.
Thanks to Duncan for posting, and for all of you who have made our site great over the years.
Here's the video:
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Happy New Year
Happy New Year and welcome to 2008.
I hope everyone out there has made some great New Year's Resolutions, and have already started on the path to keeping them. I have high hopes and goals for Reimagine Memories as well as 10 or so pounds to lose over the next year, which I hope a year from now I can write about my successful journey in accomplishing both. 2007 has been an incredibly busy year for me both professionally as well as personally, and I go into 2008 with high hopes that I can continue the intensity of the professional life while sustaining more of a balance with the personal one. Either way 2008 will be a busy year, and already I have 2 speaking gigs, a convention planned, and several marketing campaigns to run in just the next two weeks. I leave on Sunday to attend CES at the Las Vegas Convention Center for my fourth straight year, and right after that will be speaking at both the Long Beach and Laverne Computer Clubs. During all of this Reimagine Memories has a few local marketing campaigns as well as online campaigns that I am running lead on. Already 2008 is shaping up to be quite the year and it is only January 1st. I'd be afraid though if I had nothing planned, and nothing to do, because then nothing would get accomplished during this pivotal year in the company's future.
May your holiday season end on a great note, and may 2008 be everything you have hoped for it to be and so much more.
Happy New Year,
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
I hope everyone out there has made some great New Year's Resolutions, and have already started on the path to keeping them. I have high hopes and goals for Reimagine Memories as well as 10 or so pounds to lose over the next year, which I hope a year from now I can write about my successful journey in accomplishing both. 2007 has been an incredibly busy year for me both professionally as well as personally, and I go into 2008 with high hopes that I can continue the intensity of the professional life while sustaining more of a balance with the personal one. Either way 2008 will be a busy year, and already I have 2 speaking gigs, a convention planned, and several marketing campaigns to run in just the next two weeks. I leave on Sunday to attend CES at the Las Vegas Convention Center for my fourth straight year, and right after that will be speaking at both the Long Beach and Laverne Computer Clubs. During all of this Reimagine Memories has a few local marketing campaigns as well as online campaigns that I am running lead on. Already 2008 is shaping up to be quite the year and it is only January 1st. I'd be afraid though if I had nothing planned, and nothing to do, because then nothing would get accomplished during this pivotal year in the company's future.
May your holiday season end on a great note, and may 2008 be everything you have hoped for it to be and so much more.
Happy New Year,
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Happy Holidays from Reimagine Memories
Hi Everyone,
Merry Christmas if you celebrate it and Happy Holidays if you do not. I meant to get this up here earlier, but the Christmas crunch has been worse than any other year this year. With many orders being ordered just last week and needing Christmas Eve delivery it was quite a busy holiday season for Reimagine Memories. All of that business has taken its toll though, and it was nice to get a complete break from work on this Christmas day. That said, being able to reimagine all of those old home videos into memories reborn again on DVD or online is such a great experience. From the large orders of over 50 camcorder tapes to the small orders of just one or two each customer is a unique experience for us that makes the work always exciting.
I hope all of you are having a great holiday season, and continue to have one. It has been great helping so many of you be able to regain those memories that have been stored in closets, attics, and under beds. I hope that during this holiday season you have been building and capturing many new memories that will forever be remembered and available for future generations.
Have a safe and happy holiday season,
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
Merry Christmas if you celebrate it and Happy Holidays if you do not. I meant to get this up here earlier, but the Christmas crunch has been worse than any other year this year. With many orders being ordered just last week and needing Christmas Eve delivery it was quite a busy holiday season for Reimagine Memories. All of that business has taken its toll though, and it was nice to get a complete break from work on this Christmas day. That said, being able to reimagine all of those old home videos into memories reborn again on DVD or online is such a great experience. From the large orders of over 50 camcorder tapes to the small orders of just one or two each customer is a unique experience for us that makes the work always exciting.
I hope all of you are having a great holiday season, and continue to have one. It has been great helping so many of you be able to regain those memories that have been stored in closets, attics, and under beds. I hope that during this holiday season you have been building and capturing many new memories that will forever be remembered and available for future generations.
Have a safe and happy holiday season,
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
Thursday, December 6, 2007
There's Bad Customer Service, Then There's Capital One's Customer Service
Hi Everyone,
I've finally gotten everything resolved with Capital One after literally months of work to clear up a credit card charge, and now that I've gone through that experience I want to discuss the insane leaps and bounds I went through to get this sub-$3o0 charge off my credit card. So here's the story of how Capital One lost a customer and unveiled the horrible customer service of their company:
So Capital One reeled me in through their many commercials, and their constant stream of credit card mail offers that seemed to invade my mailbox everyday. Having used a debit card for years, I decided that I wanted to begin building credit and get some cash rewards in the process so I decided to take the plunge and get a Capital One Credit Card. For the first year or so there were absolutely no problems other than the somewhat annoying website problems that would have me find their payment system down for a day or more at a time. Despite all of this I was quite satisfied with my choice of going with Capital One until one faithful day in August.
This past August a friend and I decided to spend the weekend at Pechanga Casino, a local Indian Casino, in Temecula, CA . Having driven nearly two hours to get there we were told that we would not be able to stay there as we had booked through Orbitz and it didn't correspond with their system or their rooms. Now I had many words with nearly everyone who worked at the casino, and yet they just wouldn't put me up in a room due to being overcrowded, which was the first customer service I have ever had at a hotel. So after driving back, now taking 3 hours as the traffic started, I attempted to get Orbitz to give me a refund. At first they were quite receptive, but after numerous follow-up calls they never made good on their promise to refund my credit card for the nearly $300 room charge. At this point I sure was happy that I had used a credit card for the purchase, and envisioned getting my money back quickly and easily from Capital One with just one phone call. Boy was I wrong.
I was able to file the dispute online and had the charge taken off my account immediately. I then received a letter in the mail a few days later asking for additional information, which I gladly gave and sent back in the same day. At this point I couldn't believe how well this was going, and was happy that I had decided to go straight to my credit card company. I received some more letters stating that they had not received my letter, and resent it as well as faxed it. I even called customer support to confirm that it had gone through. While a bit perturbed that my original letter got lost in the mail or was misplaced by Capital One I still had a great impression of Capital One's service.
While on a date towards the end of October I tried to use my credit card and found that it had been declined. I figured that it was either a fluke or the waiter didn't know how to put it through so I paid with cash and pulled out my iPhone to see what was up. Nearly two months after the original dispute I find the complete charge, nearly $300, billed back to my credit card by Capital One, my own credit card company. It was nearly the end of the month so my credit card was quite full of charges so this $300 had pushed it past my limit causing overdraft fees, and my inability to use the card anymore.
At very few other times had I been so angry with a company (The only other comparable time was when I had to switch hosting companies due to them not responding for 12 hours despite promising 24/7 service). I called that night and for the next two nights after that, but was told that office was not open until Monday by outsourced call center representatives. Come to find out Monday when I finally get through to the New York office that they are indeed open 24/7 all year-long, which made me even angrier. The fact that they told me I had never sent them any of their letters back only made the fire burn stronger. They also wouldn't temporarily take the charge off either. So I had to wait for another letter to be sent out, it took 3 days, which should have been sent out before my account was charged along with a phone call notifying me of the pending charge.
After submitting the letter again nothing happened so I called another representative and confirmed the faxed letter with her. Yet still nothing is taken off my account, and I haven't been even acknowledged that they were reviewing it a week after the fact. At this point I called once again and asked for a supervisor. Well I should was in for a treat. After explaining my situation in a somewhat calm if not completely unemotional way this customer service woman began to raise her voice. This was new for me, and as she continued by yelling at me that she didn't like being told what to do or being insulted (Neither of which I had done) I told her how I really felt and hung up.
Calling another number got me to the head of the claims department who was the first person to actually help me through this whole fiasco. She apologized for the other supervisor's behavior, and promised that she would be dealt with. She then informed me that they had recieved every single one of the letters that I had either faxed or mailed, but that they had a question about one of the items of information. She informed me that their limited software only allowed them to send that one generic letter stating that they had never received the email. She quickly resolved my problem, and I was able to get all of my money back.
To give you an idea of the hassle this whole thing was I talked to literally 8-10 people with nearly half of them being outsourced call center representatives, had to mail 5 or so letters, faxed 3 or so letters, and spent hours on the phone trying to figure out what I was doing wrong when the whole thing could have been solved if the employees were educated on the computer system's generic letter limitation, and/or that more specific letters were mailed to customers.
Morals of the Story for Me:
1. Be sure that every customer service member is trained
2. Don't outsource your customer service that deals with any type of account problems, money problems, or any other situation where your customer is going to be easily irritated and is not going to appreciate having to repeat everything due to you saving a couple pennies
3. Use the phone to notify customers of problems so you can verify they have been informed
4. Don't do anything to a customer's account without informing them well beforehand
So I am looking for a new credit card company (I've heard American Express is good???), and being sure that we as a company and even more so myself personally don't make any of the mistakes that Capital One did in the future, even as we grow.
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
I've finally gotten everything resolved with Capital One after literally months of work to clear up a credit card charge, and now that I've gone through that experience I want to discuss the insane leaps and bounds I went through to get this sub-$3o0 charge off my credit card. So here's the story of how Capital One lost a customer and unveiled the horrible customer service of their company:
So Capital One reeled me in through their many commercials, and their constant stream of credit card mail offers that seemed to invade my mailbox everyday. Having used a debit card for years, I decided that I wanted to begin building credit and get some cash rewards in the process so I decided to take the plunge and get a Capital One Credit Card. For the first year or so there were absolutely no problems other than the somewhat annoying website problems that would have me find their payment system down for a day or more at a time. Despite all of this I was quite satisfied with my choice of going with Capital One until one faithful day in August.
This past August a friend and I decided to spend the weekend at Pechanga Casino, a local Indian Casino, in Temecula, CA . Having driven nearly two hours to get there we were told that we would not be able to stay there as we had booked through Orbitz and it didn't correspond with their system or their rooms. Now I had many words with nearly everyone who worked at the casino, and yet they just wouldn't put me up in a room due to being overcrowded, which was the first customer service I have ever had at a hotel. So after driving back, now taking 3 hours as the traffic started, I attempted to get Orbitz to give me a refund. At first they were quite receptive, but after numerous follow-up calls they never made good on their promise to refund my credit card for the nearly $300 room charge. At this point I sure was happy that I had used a credit card for the purchase, and envisioned getting my money back quickly and easily from Capital One with just one phone call. Boy was I wrong.
I was able to file the dispute online and had the charge taken off my account immediately. I then received a letter in the mail a few days later asking for additional information, which I gladly gave and sent back in the same day. At this point I couldn't believe how well this was going, and was happy that I had decided to go straight to my credit card company. I received some more letters stating that they had not received my letter, and resent it as well as faxed it. I even called customer support to confirm that it had gone through. While a bit perturbed that my original letter got lost in the mail or was misplaced by Capital One I still had a great impression of Capital One's service.
While on a date towards the end of October I tried to use my credit card and found that it had been declined. I figured that it was either a fluke or the waiter didn't know how to put it through so I paid with cash and pulled out my iPhone to see what was up. Nearly two months after the original dispute I find the complete charge, nearly $300, billed back to my credit card by Capital One, my own credit card company. It was nearly the end of the month so my credit card was quite full of charges so this $300 had pushed it past my limit causing overdraft fees, and my inability to use the card anymore.
At very few other times had I been so angry with a company (The only other comparable time was when I had to switch hosting companies due to them not responding for 12 hours despite promising 24/7 service). I called that night and for the next two nights after that, but was told that office was not open until Monday by outsourced call center representatives. Come to find out Monday when I finally get through to the New York office that they are indeed open 24/7 all year-long, which made me even angrier. The fact that they told me I had never sent them any of their letters back only made the fire burn stronger. They also wouldn't temporarily take the charge off either. So I had to wait for another letter to be sent out, it took 3 days, which should have been sent out before my account was charged along with a phone call notifying me of the pending charge.
After submitting the letter again nothing happened so I called another representative and confirmed the faxed letter with her. Yet still nothing is taken off my account, and I haven't been even acknowledged that they were reviewing it a week after the fact. At this point I called once again and asked for a supervisor. Well I should was in for a treat. After explaining my situation in a somewhat calm if not completely unemotional way this customer service woman began to raise her voice. This was new for me, and as she continued by yelling at me that she didn't like being told what to do or being insulted (Neither of which I had done) I told her how I really felt and hung up.
Calling another number got me to the head of the claims department who was the first person to actually help me through this whole fiasco. She apologized for the other supervisor's behavior, and promised that she would be dealt with. She then informed me that they had recieved every single one of the letters that I had either faxed or mailed, but that they had a question about one of the items of information. She informed me that their limited software only allowed them to send that one generic letter stating that they had never received the email. She quickly resolved my problem, and I was able to get all of my money back.
To give you an idea of the hassle this whole thing was I talked to literally 8-10 people with nearly half of them being outsourced call center representatives, had to mail 5 or so letters, faxed 3 or so letters, and spent hours on the phone trying to figure out what I was doing wrong when the whole thing could have been solved if the employees were educated on the computer system's generic letter limitation, and/or that more specific letters were mailed to customers.
Morals of the Story for Me:
1. Be sure that every customer service member is trained
2. Don't outsource your customer service that deals with any type of account problems, money problems, or any other situation where your customer is going to be easily irritated and is not going to appreciate having to repeat everything due to you saving a couple pennies
3. Use the phone to notify customers of problems so you can verify they have been informed
4. Don't do anything to a customer's account without informing them well beforehand
So I am looking for a new credit card company (I've heard American Express is good???), and being sure that we as a company and even more so myself personally don't make any of the mistakes that Capital One did in the future, even as we grow.
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Reimagine Memories By William Edwards: Fine Portraiture
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone,
I hope all of you are having a very relaxing Thanksgiving full of family/friends, football, and lots of food. While I enjoy all of that I am also getting ready for one of the most significant days for Reimagine Memories in our short company's history.
William Meck, the President and Founder of William Edwards: Fine Portraiture, was reading the Daily News Paper the day my article was in it, and decided to contact us. The paper published my personal cellphone number, which at first I was quite concerned about as calls from readers began to pour in. However, luckily William was able to contact me directly, which let us go past just his initial questions of getting his own physical media converted to a discussion about a partnership between our two companies. Bill, as he prefers to be called, is quite well-known in the San Fernando Valley, but even more so in the Antelope Valley where his biggest photography studio resides and where he has been providing high-end professional portraits and photographs for over 20 years. Ironically, Bill actually took one of my childhood photographs, which was so well done that my Mom remembers that he took it to this day and was quite excited to learn this is who we would be partnering with.
Over the past three weeks since the newspaper article was first published, and Bill first contacted me we have done something that I wasn't sure we would be able to accomplish in such a short time frame. We have ironed out a formal partnership agreement right in time for the Thanksgiving Shopping Weekend, which is easily the biggest shopping weekend of the year. William Edwards: Fine Portraiture has operated a booth in the Antelope Valley Mall for quite a while now, and Bill was nice enough to allow us to take over a part of it to market our new joint venture Reimagine Memories By William Edwards: Fine Portraiture. Starting tomorrow morning we will begin this joint venture, which is truly a beneficial partnership for both companies as well as our customers. Reimagine Memories now gains a retail presence along with the association with a very well known brand name, while William Edwards: Fine Portraiture is able to add conversion services that are a natural addition to their product line.
Reimagine Memories will handle every step of the conversion process to ensure that our quality-standards are continued to be met, and that Reimagine Memories By William Edwards: Fine Portraiture customers get exactly the same quality as our past customers have received. William Edwards: Fine Portraiture is going to help us out through promotion and by providing a retail presence along with providing helpful and knowledgeable sales associates. This is the most exciting event in our short history as I mentioned before, and adds another element, a retail presence, to our company's portfolio. While we estimate extremely strong growth of our customer base in the next two months we are more prepared to meet these new customers with more customer service staff and more production staff being added with the ability to bring in more qualified employees if needed. Continued growth is one of our biggest goals, but I know that we can't grow if we don't focus on the customer experience and on providing the same great experience for every single customer no matter how many there are.
As this is our first weekend of this joint venture with William Edwards: Fine Portraiture, and the first partnership for us of this magnitude I am personally being involved from Friday to Sunday at our retail booth in the Antelope Valley Mall. Starting very early tomorrow morning, before 8AM, and continuing throughout the rest of the holiday weekend I will be one of our employees out there. So come out and say hello to me, the rest of the Reimagine Memories gang, and our great new partners William Edwards: Fine Portraiture.
Antelope Valley Mall
1233 Rancho Vista Blvd.
Palmdale, CA 93551
http://www.AV-Mall.com
Have a Safe and Great Holiday Weekend,
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
I hope all of you are having a very relaxing Thanksgiving full of family/friends, football, and lots of food. While I enjoy all of that I am also getting ready for one of the most significant days for Reimagine Memories in our short company's history.
William Meck, the President and Founder of William Edwards: Fine Portraiture, was reading the Daily News Paper the day my article was in it, and decided to contact us. The paper published my personal cellphone number, which at first I was quite concerned about as calls from readers began to pour in. However, luckily William was able to contact me directly, which let us go past just his initial questions of getting his own physical media converted to a discussion about a partnership between our two companies. Bill, as he prefers to be called, is quite well-known in the San Fernando Valley, but even more so in the Antelope Valley where his biggest photography studio resides and where he has been providing high-end professional portraits and photographs for over 20 years. Ironically, Bill actually took one of my childhood photographs, which was so well done that my Mom remembers that he took it to this day and was quite excited to learn this is who we would be partnering with.
Over the past three weeks since the newspaper article was first published, and Bill first contacted me we have done something that I wasn't sure we would be able to accomplish in such a short time frame. We have ironed out a formal partnership agreement right in time for the Thanksgiving Shopping Weekend, which is easily the biggest shopping weekend of the year. William Edwards: Fine Portraiture has operated a booth in the Antelope Valley Mall for quite a while now, and Bill was nice enough to allow us to take over a part of it to market our new joint venture Reimagine Memories By William Edwards: Fine Portraiture. Starting tomorrow morning we will begin this joint venture, which is truly a beneficial partnership for both companies as well as our customers. Reimagine Memories now gains a retail presence along with the association with a very well known brand name, while William Edwards: Fine Portraiture is able to add conversion services that are a natural addition to their product line.
Reimagine Memories will handle every step of the conversion process to ensure that our quality-standards are continued to be met, and that Reimagine Memories By William Edwards: Fine Portraiture customers get exactly the same quality as our past customers have received. William Edwards: Fine Portraiture is going to help us out through promotion and by providing a retail presence along with providing helpful and knowledgeable sales associates. This is the most exciting event in our short history as I mentioned before, and adds another element, a retail presence, to our company's portfolio. While we estimate extremely strong growth of our customer base in the next two months we are more prepared to meet these new customers with more customer service staff and more production staff being added with the ability to bring in more qualified employees if needed. Continued growth is one of our biggest goals, but I know that we can't grow if we don't focus on the customer experience and on providing the same great experience for every single customer no matter how many there are.
As this is our first weekend of this joint venture with William Edwards: Fine Portraiture, and the first partnership for us of this magnitude I am personally being involved from Friday to Sunday at our retail booth in the Antelope Valley Mall. Starting very early tomorrow morning, before 8AM, and continuing throughout the rest of the holiday weekend I will be one of our employees out there. So come out and say hello to me, the rest of the Reimagine Memories gang, and our great new partners William Edwards: Fine Portraiture.
Antelope Valley Mall
1233 Rancho Vista Blvd.
Palmdale, CA 93551
http://www.AV-Mall.com
Have a Safe and Great Holiday Weekend,
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
Monday, November 12, 2007
Back In The Headlines
Hi Everyone,
Reimagine Memories has once again infiltrated the pages of the Los Angeles Daily News this year, and this time we have quite a bit more than just a snippet of text written about us. The Daily News has been really great in supporting us, and other local LA area small businesses. They sent out a photographer who took a ton of photographs of the office, and of course the one that got in there of me with one of our trade show banners. They also let us talk a bit about the business including how it got started, where it is at now, and where we see it going in the future. The article was positioned right below the weather section, and was given a small spot on the front-page shout-out advertising that it was on the back of the business section. These two occurrences, specifically the placement near the weather, brought in an incredible number of phone calls and emails.
So many of these emails and phone calls were people congratulating us for getting into the paper, and for thinking of such a service. I was quite blown away by these paragraph or longer emails that were simply telling us great job. It's a great feeling to have your idea validated by so many in the community after a year and a half to get the idea off the ground. We also have gotten quite a few new customers, and have many other interested who are waiting to take a journey into their closets or attics to return with their old physical media that we will reimagine for them. We also are close to a very exciting partnership that I can't wait to get finalized and be able to announce. Until then though thank you to the Daily News for supporting us throughout our start-up journey.
Check Out the Article Online
On a side note, I know I haven't posted too many interesting posts lately, but I do have quite a few posts in the pipeline (Half-written, sort of thought about, and nearly finished) that I will be posting on here in the next week or so. To give you sort of a lame sneak peek here are some of the topics I have been thinking about: Rackspace Hosting Outage (Considered Best in Industry), Google Android Phone Platform, Google Open Social Social Networking Platform, Online Ads and Their Performance, Capital One Doesn't Understand Customer Service, and of course a full round-up of StartUpLA.
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
Reimagine Memories has once again infiltrated the pages of the Los Angeles Daily News this year, and this time we have quite a bit more than just a snippet of text written about us. The Daily News has been really great in supporting us, and other local LA area small businesses. They sent out a photographer who took a ton of photographs of the office, and of course the one that got in there of me with one of our trade show banners. They also let us talk a bit about the business including how it got started, where it is at now, and where we see it going in the future. The article was positioned right below the weather section, and was given a small spot on the front-page shout-out advertising that it was on the back of the business section. These two occurrences, specifically the placement near the weather, brought in an incredible number of phone calls and emails.
So many of these emails and phone calls were people congratulating us for getting into the paper, and for thinking of such a service. I was quite blown away by these paragraph or longer emails that were simply telling us great job. It's a great feeling to have your idea validated by so many in the community after a year and a half to get the idea off the ground. We also have gotten quite a few new customers, and have many other interested who are waiting to take a journey into their closets or attics to return with their old physical media that we will reimagine for them. We also are close to a very exciting partnership that I can't wait to get finalized and be able to announce. Until then though thank you to the Daily News for supporting us throughout our start-up journey.
Check Out the Article Online
On a side note, I know I haven't posted too many interesting posts lately, but I do have quite a few posts in the pipeline (Half-written, sort of thought about, and nearly finished) that I will be posting on here in the next week or so. To give you sort of a lame sneak peek here are some of the topics I have been thinking about: Rackspace Hosting Outage (Considered Best in Industry), Google Android Phone Platform, Google Open Social Social Networking Platform, Online Ads and Their Performance, Capital One Doesn't Understand Customer Service, and of course a full round-up of StartUpLA.
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
http://www.ReimagineMemories.com
Friday, October 26, 2007
StartUpLA Starts Today
Hi Everyone,
I've been meaning to post about this for quite a while, but I didn't want to until I was sure it was going to happen and that I was going to attend. Anyway, the LA tech conference called StartUpLA starts today at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. This is the first tech conference that I have been to in a while as E3 has been pretty much demolished, and CES isn't until January. The Southwest Computer User Group in July was quite a bit of fun, but other than that I haven't been able to get to attend TechCrunch40, Web 2.0 Conference, D Conference, etc. The biggest reason I haven't been able to attend any of these great conferences is their location either down in San Diego for the D Conference or up North in the San Francisco area for the others. Whenever you have to go on a trip the costs become incredible as you have to eat out, pay for the hotel, and pay for the airplane ticket on top of the conference fee. Well StartUpLA is looking to bring the tech conference to local LA start-ups and investors.
The cost is quite reasonable if you are local to the area, and the conference has some great sessions lined up, and what should make for quite the interesting chat with Jason Calacanis.
Friday – Oct 26th 2007 – A half day of invited panel speakers
So if any of those sessions sound interesting to you, and you have a free Friday/Saturday afternoon there are still a few tickets left. I'll be at the event from about 3PM until 7:30PM today (Friday October 26th), and tomorrow (Saturday October 27th) from 10:30AM until 12:30PM.
Hope to see you there. If you do decide to attend be sure to contact me so we can meet up.
Have a great weekend,
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
I've been meaning to post about this for quite a while, but I didn't want to until I was sure it was going to happen and that I was going to attend. Anyway, the LA tech conference called StartUpLA starts today at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. This is the first tech conference that I have been to in a while as E3 has been pretty much demolished, and CES isn't until January. The Southwest Computer User Group in July was quite a bit of fun, but other than that I haven't been able to get to attend TechCrunch40, Web 2.0 Conference, D Conference, etc. The biggest reason I haven't been able to attend any of these great conferences is their location either down in San Diego for the D Conference or up North in the San Francisco area for the others. Whenever you have to go on a trip the costs become incredible as you have to eat out, pay for the hotel, and pay for the airplane ticket on top of the conference fee. Well StartUpLA is looking to bring the tech conference to local LA start-ups and investors.
The cost is quite reasonable if you are local to the area, and the conference has some great sessions lined up, and what should make for quite the interesting chat with Jason Calacanis.
Friday – Oct 26th 2007 – A half day of invited panel speakers
- 1:00pm-1:30pm: Registration - Venue: Alumni Plaza
- 1:30pm-2:25pm: Welcome & Keynote Speaker
- 2:35pm-3:25pm: Parallel sessions
- Topic 1: Raising Money (Venue: B313)
- Topic 2:Top 10 Legal Mistakes (Venue: C301)
- 3:35pm-4:25pm: Parallel sessions
- Topic 3: Marketing 101 (Venue: B313)
- Topic 4: Technology Infrastructure (Venue: C301)
- 4:35pm-5:25pm: Parallel sessions
- Topic 5: Success Stories: How to succeed in today global market (Venue: B313)
- Topic 6:Networking How-to (Venue: C301)
- 5:25 – 6:25pm: Fireside Chat with Jason Calacanis (Venue: Alumni Plaza)
- 6:25 – 7:30pm: Network reception (Drinks & Appetizers)
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Saturday – Oct 27th 2007 – Day of unconference
- 9:05am-10:05am: Networking
- 10:05am-10:55am:: First round of Open Space sessions (Venues: A202 & D313)
- 11:05am-12:05pm: Fast Pitch Competition (Venue: Alumni Plaza)
- 1:05pm-1:55pm: Second round of Open Space sessions (Venues: A202, D313, B301)
- 2:05pm-2:55pm: Third round of Open Space sessions (Venues: A202, D313, B301)
- 3:05pm-3:55pm: Fourth round of Open Space sessions (Venues: A202, D313, B301)
- 3:55pm-4:15pm: Announcement of Fast Pitch Winner and Closing Remarks (Venue: Alumni Plaza)
So if any of those sessions sound interesting to you, and you have a free Friday/Saturday afternoon there are still a few tickets left. I'll be at the event from about 3PM until 7:30PM today (Friday October 26th), and tomorrow (Saturday October 27th) from 10:30AM until 12:30PM.
Hope to see you there. If you do decide to attend be sure to contact me so we can meet up.
Have a great weekend,
-Brad Jashinsky
CEO/CoFounder of
Reimagine Memories
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