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Flux Pavilion and Dr. P are on their first U.S. tour of all time this summer, and let me tell you, the fans in Chicago were ready. We have never seen the Congress theater so crazy, and for good reason. Everyone wanted to see these top Dubstep/Drum and Bass Dj's throw it down hard, and that they did just that! These guys were blasting the bass so loud you could feel the floor and walls vibrating, while drinks on tables were falling over.

Watch this Short clip of Dr. P throwing it down! P.S. check out that crowd, crazinesss!!!

It was awesome to see so many people all get together like that, and great see that everyone there was digging the vibe. The place was packed to capacity and every single person in the place was getting down serious style to some massive tunes from Flux Pavilion and Dr. P. The show was so epic this was Flux Pavilion's facebook post later that night:

Thanks Flux, you made ours!! Come back anytime! Good vibes all around.

So it's summer and festival season. Everyone's rolling out to the fields, barns, and massive tents to hear the good stuff. The past 5 years the festival scene has really exploded. Before it used to be large groups of band wanderers - you'd follow the Grateful Dead or Widespread Panic for the summer and that was how it went down. Now massive festivals are in every city and comprise bands from every genre. Although it's hard to boil it down to just five - these are the dig the vibe all time top 5 how to pack for a festival tips.

1. Bring something fun and crazy to do when you aren't at the shows. Think campground fun - guitars, drums, frisbees, or digeridoos. The activities will also help you make festival friends with those around you and keep you feeling it.

2. Pack clothes that look clean even when they are super dirty. Showers are often a luxury at these gatherings, so make sure you can wear and re-wear some of your duds. Reverse it, water bottle wash it, and hang out it to dry.

3. Bring a grocery bag of your favorite snacks from home or wherever. But only bring one bag - don't go crazy with the food. Biting into your favorite snack bar or treat will go a long way when you are tired, been dancing all day, and just can't move from your tent.

4. Bring along a camel-bak or multiple ways to hydrate. People can go a week without food, but die quickly without water. Hydration is key. Even if you aren't thirsty keep drinking. Pack powdered Gatorade or whatever you need to stay hydrated. It will keep you going and digging the vibe all weekend long.

5. Last but certainly not least - pack efficiently. Don't bring too much stuff. Or to little.  Be strategic and understand that everything you pack needs to have a purpose. Also don't forget the essentials - water, clothes, and fun stuff. Toiletries optional (j/k bring a way to clean off with a water bottle and t-shirt).

Have fun and stay safe out there kids. Put on them dancing feet.

Because this is what the kids are into. Skrillex's hotter than a tv dinner. Anything bumping. Give it the beat. Boom. Happy Monday night from all of us here @digthevibe

Since we are getting closer to release over here at dig the vibe, we decided to put up a new website at http://digthevibe.com, with a way to sign up to be a part of the beta testing and a countdown. Check it out...

A little bit different than over here at dig the vibe, but this captures the spirit well. There is a lot out there right there - the key is being clear, transparent, and having a unique value proposition. What really differentiates you? Alright.... just watch. #DTV

coming soon....

The current flurry of investments in tech startups is reminding people of the 90's dot-com bubble, but this article from the HuffingtonPost called Champagne And Easy Money: The Web's Young Stars Confront Another Bubble makes a couple very interesting points. Here are some excerpts from the article we found interesting:

• As U.S. venture capitalists raised $7 billion during the first quarter of 2011, Internet firms snatched up $2.3 billion in funds, according to research firm CB insights. Those totals were up 76 percent and 46 percent, respectively, from the first quarter of 2010.
• As cash piles up and today’s top entrepreneurs become pickier about whom they take money from, a new class system for investors is emerging. “We’re not just looking for money, we’re looking for someone to offer advice, networks and relationships,” said one tech entrepreneur at the Summit Series who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
• For one, venture capital firms are investing considerably less capital than they were during the boom. Ben Horowitz, co-founder and general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz,crunched the numbers and found that venture capital firms had invested $200 billion between 1998 and 2000. More dollars were invested in that single 3-year period than in total over the prior 18 years. Between 2008 and 2010, venture capital firms invested $90 billion, which is less than half the 1998-2000 level.
• “I remember 1999,” said email service ccLoop founder Michael Wolfe, who was previously the vice president of engineering at Kana, a web-based communications firm that went public in 1999 at a multibillion-dollar valuation. “Today’s valuations may be 20, 30 or 50 percent too high, but they’re nothing compared to the valuations we saw during the late-'90s bubble." Those valuations, according to Wolfe, were around 10 times what they should have been.
• “I’m bullish on the fundamental’s of today's Web startups,” said Wolfe. Internet businesses, he points out, can be built with substantially less capital than in the '90s because technology costs have dropped precipitously, enabling entrepreneurs to develop products and bring them to market quicker and with fewer resources. During the late-'90s boom, investors placed bets on capital-intensive Internet companies that burned through cash quickly and took years to turn a profit.
• Valuations for most late-'90s dot-com rockets generally didn’t soar until after companies went public, after which money from the masses piled in. This exposed ordinary investors -- the day-traders and giddy optimists -– to risk as they rushed to the public markets to buy up tech stocks, some technology investors say.
• Today, about one in three people are online, or roughly two billion global users, according to data from Internet World Stats, compared to 1999, when less than five percent of the global population used the Internet.

Call us old fashioned here at digthevibe, but we believe as long as we stay focused on delivering tangible value to both our users and businesses, everything will work out in end.  Too many startups rely on their technology to be a "shiny object", hoping the business model will come later, but we're doing our best to avoid that pitfall.  What do you think about the current market for tech startups?  Is it a boom or a bubble?

So the weather is starting to turn in Chicago. It's been an incredible weekend. We are all itching for those summer parties. It looks like Tao in Vegas knows what's up. Check it out. dig the vibe

Check out the iPad of @Zak_Kirchner - representing the one and only DTV from Cali. "It's not about where you are, it's about where you want to be." dig the vibe