We are excited to announce that as a part of Social Media Week, Mixergy & AsAble.com are hosting a VC/Angel investors panel atStartup Demo event on the evening of Sept 22nd at Wokcano. This is in partnership with Schmoozd and Techzulu.  Register to attend this FREE event here.  There will also be a startup demo.  Apply to demo here. The event will be...

Last week, Pete Mauro and Joe Zulli organized yet another amazing Lean Startup Circle LA event at the CoLoftin Santa Monica.  This time, the VIP guest speaker was Sean Ellis, with a talk titled “Bringing a Network Effect Business to Market”. Here is the recorded video – special thanks to Pete and Joe for allowing AsAble.com to share with our...

Yesterday, AsAble.com hosted a private meeting with Don Dodge for a few LA startups at Google office in Santa Monica.  Don Dodge is a Developer Advocate at Google helping developers build new applications on Google platforms and technologies. Prior to joining Google, Don was a startup evangelist at Microsoft. Don is also a veteran of five start-ups including Forte...

Brad Feld had a hectic day and full day in LA yesterday but he still put some time out to be with a few AsAble.com startup entrepreneurs. Sitting outside of Vocalno Tea in the warmth of a So Cal afternoon, we had a pleasure of hearing Brad talked about his investment philosphy, what he thinks about startups and where he thinks the VC trend is heading. It was...

Chris McCann, Founder of StartupDigest is visiting LA next week and, together with CoLoft, is hosting a different type of meetup next Tuesday morning. The tasty type. Startup Waffles. You now have several good reasons to turn up: to mingle with other entrepreneurs, to check out the cool & fun CoLoft space, to learn what Startup Digest is about, AND to have...

Greg Doyle is a Partner with InLab Ventures. Greg brings to InLab a 20 year professional and entrepreneurial background which includes senior level business leadership in both public and private companies, strategic management consulting, forming and incubating early to mid-stage companies, mergers & acquisitions, and fund management. Greg’s specific area of...

Simon Sinek teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. We are so excited that Simon is coming to LA and will spend some time to talk to us about his work. We started out wanting to organize this as a small events like we normally do with AsAble.com events but the RSVPs have been so enthusiastic, we decided to open this up to a bigger room. So join us...

Dave McClure was in town to speak at the BlueGlass LA conference.  I grab Dave for a small meeting with a few AsAble.com startup entrepreneurs.  Dave is someone that the startup community refers to as a “super angel” who has invested in many deals that we could only dream of.   You can read more about him here, or say hi to him on Twitter here:...

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Dan Martell is Canadian serial entrepreneur and angel investor, currently co-founder of Flowtown. This month, Dan was in LA to give a talk at the LA Lean Startup Circle at the CoLoft. You can watch the video of the talk on CoLoft website here. You should say hello to Dan on Twitter @DanMartell or check out his blog here. If you are interested in future Lean...

I spent July-4th long weekend at Tony Hsieh’s place and that reminded me that I wanted to elaborate on my earlier post on “engagement vs. relevancy”. The discussion on that post was about if a company should focus more on relevancy marketing or engagement. My position is that it should be a lot more about having that bigger vision to bring in engagement. And...