San Francisco Associates, a financial advisory firm in the financial district, will now be providing Parisoma members 4 hours of business and financial services. Since 1942, San Francisco Associates has been creating customized financial and business strategy plans to small businesses, individuals and families.

Companies will be able to benefit from a range of available financial services including those related to taxes, insurance/pension plans, accounting/bookkeeping, payroll service and business management. Email us at office [at] parisoma.com to book your slot.

Specific relevant services available include:

1. Business Budgeting / Financial Forecasting
2. Creation of Individualized Financial Reporting Models (utilizing the business’s existing software, if any, ie Quickbooks.)
3. Operation Strategies, particularly those for sole/small business owners
4. Determination of the best business entity to utilize (ie, LLC, S Corp etc.)
5. 401K options for employees / Individual retirement support
6. Health Insurance Analysis / Recommendations / Cost Info.
7. Health Savings Account Analysis / Recommendations / Cost Info
8. Personal Financial Analysis

Additionally, San Francisco Associates will help to provide you with access to respected professionals in relevant industries including:

• Certified Financial Planners
• Certified Public Accountants
• MBAs
• And, any other financial professionals deemed necessary

The first step to providing thorough, relevant financial services is to fully understand your individual (or your business’s) situation. As such, San Francisco Associates will be also begin providing 4-hour consultations at $100 for pariSoma members.

Here is a blog post, written by eXo CEO, Benjamin Mestrallet, discussing what the fund-raising means to the company.

We are excited for eXo Platform and wish them the best of luck in their growth into the American marketplace and bringing innovative solutions to their clients.

Learn the latest CSS + Web Design tricks and techniques.

CASCADE is all about bringing the web design community in San Francisco together. We have events with specialized guest speakers in San Francisco, bringing us up-to-date on design trends, standards technique while interacting with some of the most talented designers in the country. We will also have a meetup night where designers will bring their favorite web sites and explain why it works and what can be improved.

If you want to be on top of your game in your field, it’s important to stay connected with the right people. CASCADE can do that for you. Join today!

DoYouBuzz, Inc.

Evy is the COO of DoYouBuzz Inc, a unique online resume service that gets professionals recognized for their potential.  She has lived and worked on three continents. In a previous life she managed environmental protection projects in Sierra Leone and handled communications for a biodiversity investment fund. Her formative years were spent at the University of Minnesota and Sciencescom (Nantes, France). She also photographs squished plums, which will either repulse or inspire you. Check out her online resume.

He built the first website for Apple Support in 1995, founded two ISPs during the dot-com boom (one too early, one too late!), was senior strategist for IBM’s Pervasive Computing initiative, and is now the founder and CEO of Tech Propulsion Labs, a Vietnam-based web and mobile development firm providing services to startups in the US and Europe. He has written several technical books and holds over a dozen patents.

Ask the Startup CTO will be able to help with technology strategy assessment for startups and firms of all stages. Make sure your technology choices support your business model, explore options to pivot or expand your business based on tech capabilities, map out a development roadmap that aligns with your business objectives, discuss recruiting and managing development resources or even your very own CTO, and more!

Sebastian will be at pariSoma on March 22nd, from noon – 5pm.  There will be eight 30-min time slots available.  Email us office [at] parisoma.com to reserve your spot now.

VidSF & Gruntled Manufacture

Steve is a freelance web designer and front-end developer, and he finds this whole internet thing fascinating. When he’s not making websites, Steve battles a crippling videogame addiction, occasionally inconveniences his roommate by playing drums, and neglects his personal site at http://stevecochrane.com. You can email him at hq [at] stevecochrane.com.

About the Workshop

In this intensive hands-on 2 day weekend workshop, Shiva, the blog doctor, will teach you how to create, maintain and market your small business or service online using wordpress for content management and blogging.

Keeping with the spirit of Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg’s advice on innovation “Move fast and Break things“, all participants will get their own TEST website / blog powered by wordpress for the duration of the workshop plus a full month afterwards.

So don’t forget to bring your laptops! We’ve got the coffee. The two-day workshop costs $300/person. If you are not happy after the first day, we will refund you!  RSVP at eventbrite.

About the Instructor

Shiva, the blog doctor, has been blogging and building websites for small businesses since 1999. Of late, Shiva has helped several small business, bloggers and independant professional setup, grow and market their small business, service or professional blog. Shiva is also a Serial Blogger and is the primary author of blogs here, here, here, here and here.

Detailed Workshop Agenda

Saturday, April 10

10:00 to 10:15 – Introduction, Workshop Overview
10:15 to 11:00 – Conception, Setup
11:00 to 12:00 – Customization – Theme, Plugins, Widgets, Webdesign
12:00 to 12:30 – Lunch
12:30 to 1:00 – Customization – Theme, Plugins, Widgets, Webdesign (continued)
1:00 to 2:00 – Content Generation – Blogging. Posts, Pages, Tags, Categories, Feeds. Finding content. Engaging audience. Building Community
2:00 to 2:15 – Suggestions and Questions for Next Day
2:15 to 5:00 – Move fast and Break Things on your test website / blog. Start working on your real website / blog

Sunday, April 11

10:00 to 10:30 – Quick recap of previous day’s learings, and answers to questions from Participants
10:30 to 12:00 – Marketing – Search Engines. SEO. Sitemaps. Webmaster Tools, Analytics
12:00 to 12:30 – Lunch
12:30 to 2:00 – Marketing (beyond Search Engines). Events, Newsletters, Facebook, Twitter
2:00 to 2:15 – Course Wrap-up / Conclusion
2:15 to 5:00 – Sit in Parisoma and build your live website / blog with Shiva, the blog doctor helping you when needed

About the Venue

The pariSoma Innovation Loft is a beautiful, open, and sun-filled coworking loft in the SoMa district of San Francisco. While fully equipped with high-speed WiFi, kitchen, a 135-inch digital projection screen, and a conference room, the pariSoma Innovation Loft does more than just a provide desks and WiFi. We are a community of communities, a place to meet, and a coworking space.

Specifically, Shiva can help you with Wordpress, Tumblr and Blogger blogs as well as websites powered by wordpress (i.e. wordpress as CMS).

The Blog Doctor is offering 30 minute time slots of FREE consulting for free lancers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses on improving and customizing their blogs/websites.  Email us office [at] parisoma.com to reserve your spot now!

About the Instructor

Shiva, the blog doctor, has been blogging and building websites for small businesses since 1999. Of late, Shiva has helped several small business, bloggers and independant professional setup, grow and market their small business, service or professional blog. Shiva is also a Serial Blogger and is the primary author of blogs here, here, here, here and here.

About the Venue

The pariSoma Innovation Loft is a beautiful, open, and sun-filled coworking loft in the SoMa district of San Francisco. While fully equipped with high-speed WiFi, kitchen, a 135-inch digital projection screen, and a conference room, the pariSoma Innovation Loft does more than just a provide desks and WiFi. We are a community of communities, a place to meet, and a coworking space.

RSVP

by emailing office [at] parisoma.com to reserve a time!

This group is open to everyone but geared more towards users, so come check it out!

This month, Austin Chau and Pamela Fox from  Google will present a talk on the new Google Robot API.

The presentation slides can be found here.

Check out this blog for what’s happening now in Google Wave.

Agenda
630-700pm: Networking

700-800pm: Presentation By Austin and Pamela, Q&A

Pamela Fox loves to teach other developers how to use Google APIs. She spent her first 3 years at Google supporting the Maps API community, and now focuses her time on helping the rapidly growing Wave APIs community. In her free time, she likes to play around with any one of Google’s 60+ APIs, make drawings on her new Android phone, and learn the dance steps from pop music videos.

Austin Chau has been working at Google for three years. The API products that he had supported includes Google Gears, Google Calendar, and now he mainly spends his time surfing the Google Wave. In his spare time, he loves watching basketball and eating out.

800-830pm: Discussion

830-900pm: Networking