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As I mentioned in a previous post, LA Web Ventures is a meetup group that I started in order to provide a venue for Los Angeles web entrepreneurs to network with and learn from others who have launched successful entrepreneurial ventures online.

On July 26th, our next meeting will include a discussion on how to identify and create opportunities through strategic partnerships. This discussion will include practical, real-world examples for small, medium and large businesses. The group will learn about how businesses are succeeding by leveraging their current assets in new ways through partnerships.

Jeff Rohwer will be leading this discussion. He is an interactive marketing strategist and consultant with over 10 years of experience in designing, developing and deploying strategic, technical solutions for a wide range of industries including health care and hospitality.

If you’d like to attend the next meetup, you can get more information and RSVP here.

The people behind twitter never cease to amaze me with seemingly bad decisions, but the true die-hard “twits” don’t seem to mind the bumpy ride that I find rather frustrating.

The lack of solid scalability planning in twitters platform causes enough downtime to spawn sites, groups and even products surrounding the social utility’s iconic “Fail Whale” that is displayed when the site is inaccessible.

As I logged in tonight, I see that there is system maintenance planned for 6pm PST on July 4th. I think that even the most useless sites on the internet don’t do maintenance on major holidays. What adds insult to injury is that twitter’s main function is intended to let people know what you are up to. A lot of “twits” will be stagnant for 2 hours while they wait for twitter to come back online to find out where the best fireworks gathering is taking place.

Kurt Daradics and Baron Miller held another “Meeting of the Minds” last night at Suki 7 Lounge. The invite-only MOTM events (pronounced “modem”) are a fresh approach to networking and idea-sharing with hand-picked individuals here in Southern California.

Brian Monroe, Director Product Management at Eventful.com was the featured guest for the July MOTM. An interactive discussion lasted about an hour and focused on how to tap into their “Demand It’ feature, which touts over six million registered users. The group brought up some good points and asked very engaging questions; providing feedback on how to best monetize Eventful.com.

Of course, I had to snap a few photos of the July MOTM event at Suki 7 Lounge.