Marketing guru Margit Wennmachers’ new venture
The six-course dinners that venture capitalist Margit Wennmachers hosts regularly at her pink stucco Richmond District home in San Francisco are always off the record. The visiting CEOs, investors and … Continue reading
Burning Man becomes a hot spot for tech titans
Serial entrepreneur and Haight district resident Richard Titus was trying to finish a deal last year between his company and Yahoo, but he kept butting heads with Yahoo’s very stubborn … Continue reading
Sotheby’s event venue subliminally sells real estate
A saxophonist played on the sidewalk while women in stilettos and men in thin ties marched across a red carpet on Union Street one recent Thursday night. Inside, the party … Continue reading
New S.F. neighborhood like a campus fraternity row: frat mason.
Fort Mason, a 237-year-old military post turned national park, has some of the city’s most beautiful coastal views, conference venues, a high-end restaurant and, recently, luxury apartments. But, despite the … Continue reading
Women at TechCrunch Disrupt largely unfazed by men’s behavior
The women at San Francisco’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference for startups last week had every right to be angry. First, one man onstage pretended to masturbate as part of the presentation … Continue reading
Oakland’s grassroots circus acts both modern, retro
In a messy warehouse in East Oakland, an aerialist spins from ribbons off the rafters of her living room. In a smelting plant nearby, fire spinners model patterns on a … Continue reading
Executive assistants a powerful force
The bouncers were to be on high alert the night of the Executive Assistant Organization’s South of Market launch party last month. “No salespeople and no marketing girls,”Victoria Rabin, CEO of … Continue reading
S.F. Symphony gala has note of audacity
Before the San Francisco Symphony’s Spring Gala this week, the evening’s 26-year-old Symphonix co-chair Rebecca Miller was nervous – it was her first time chairing a gala and, she said, … Continue reading
Four Seasons S.F. serves up new uniforms
As the Four Seasons’ director of marketing walked out of the half-finished dining room, she patted the brocade silk walls in the hallway that would soon be torn out. “See … Continue reading
Startup dreams meet pop-up rentals
Daniel Marienthal, 23, lives in a Twin Peaks mansion with 11 other men, where privacy is so scarce that for a few months he lived in a canvas tepee he … Continue reading
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