Every day, we at the Bateman Group are on the phone with journalists, sending them emails and chatting over IM. But we all know there’s nothing like a face-to-face over some drinks to break the ice. Last week we held the first ever Bateman Group Reporter’s Happy Hour at Harlot SF in SOMA and let’s [...]

A year ago I told my colleagues at CNET “If I’m covering RSA next year, just shoot me.” I gave myself a year to get out of journalism. After starting to look for a job in earnest following Defcon, I landed here at the Bateman Group in October. This year, I’m back at RSA but [...]

They don’t call San Francisco the Tech Capital of the World for nothing. The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards—the Tech World’s version of the Academy Awards for product and service innovations—were held at San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall on Jan. 31. The popular event, put on by TechCrunch, GigaOM and VentureBeat and sponsored by Yahoo!, was [...]

Check out our first annual holiday video card using the online video creation service from Bateman Group client Animoto! Sign up and make one yourself!

  The best entrepreneurs can get capital from many sources — so how do venture capital firms differentiate and compete to work with the best startups? To win this fierce talent war, and to give their own portfolio companies the best chance of success, many top VCs are now offering much more than just money. [...]

Bateman Group’s San Francisco office got into the Halloween spirit yesterday with tutus, fur, spider webs and candy galore! It had been the subject of whispers around the office for months. There was trash talk among employees regarding who could pull together the best costume and more than a handful of email chains with unsavory [...]