Presenters Set for Twiistup 1

Start-ups are alive and well in Southern California. We received a tremendous response, and chose these 5 companies for Twiistup 1:

BuildV1 (http://www.buildv1.com/) is an experiment to find out if aspiring entrepreneurs can meet online and create successful businesses. They hope to create a space where entrepreneurs can explore ideas, learn from successful entrepreneurs, and begin their entrepreneurial journey. They believe that more people could start successful businesses if there's an easier way to find the right people.

Goodreads's (http://www.goodreads.com/) mission is to improve the process of reading and learning throughout the world. Goodreads is a privately run website started in 2006 by software engineer and entrepreneur Otis Chandler. Prior to founding Goodreads, Otis was Product Manager of LoveHappens.com, a subsidiary of Tickle.com. Monster Worldwide, the leading purveyor of online jobs, purchased the company in 2004. Otis graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Along with a passion for building websites, he’s also a voracious reader.

Urbaniacs (www.urbaniacs.com) are funky urban heroes that YOU create and customize by combining different body parts together to form your very own alter ego... an Urbaniac! There are thousands of possible combinations! Go on... get your URB ON!

Verse Studios (http://www.verse-studios.com) was founded by Travis Savo, Sean Murphy and Marcus Riedner in early 2006, and shortly there after Nathan Moore joined the team. They came together with the shared vision of developing exciting next generation online video games with unique science fiction themes, community driven game play, and novel economic models.

Yourminis (www.yourminis.com) is a personalized dashboard of minis (mini applications, also known as widgets) that let you perform specific tasks, and get information and features from all over the web in one place. You can configure minis to see your email, check the weather, watch youtube videos, search the web, browse flickr photos, read news and rss feeds, save notes & to dos, listen to music, and much, much more.

For more information about Twiistup, including tickets and sponsorships, please visit http://www.twiistup.com/.