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16 Articles match "2005","Los Angeles","Web"
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Its success in New York quickly led to French Tuesdays being established in Miami in 2004, Los Angeles in 2006, San Francisco in 2007 and Paris in 2009. French Tuesdays offers contemporary men and women entrée to a network of successful individuals and a world of couture nightlife and entertainment. Frequency/Location: Once to a few times a month per city / various venues in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Sao Paulo. Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
No updates for Other & Indirect Job Networking Opportunities SoCal Networking Event Organizations Name: Networking For Professionals (NFP) Sites: www.networkingforprofessionals.com , Industry Insights Blog , Success Square/Coaching Blog , Events Blog , City Chat Blog , twitter.com/nfp_biznetwork Updated 2/22/10 by Todd Zebert Name: (Los Angeles) Geek Dinner Frequency/Location: From Heather "I officially closed it down at the end of last year for a variety of reasons: I was burned out on organizing and the LA geek community had changed."
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
While the growth of Web 2.0 technology companies have been emerging at a rapid pace, there are three other sectors worth mentioning: Biotech Cleantech Nano Technology Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger was quoted saying, “California’s economy stands to greatly benefit from the wave of new businesses and jobs created by the emerging technologies and different approaches to fighting climate change.� The state’s emphasis on promoting cleantech has opened a wide array of opportunities for companies with the technical expertise to tackle the challenges of “going
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Los Angeles-based Pluggedin Media , which operates a web site focused on streaming of high quality, music videos in HD and broadcast quality, is looking for a buyer. O'Brien is one of the co-founders of Xdrive, which was sold to AOL in 2005. The firm's chairman, Brett O'Brien, told socalTECH that, contrary to other reports, the firm is not shutting down, but that they are in the process of selling the company. "We We have built a great team and a supersite for music fans, but the company now needs to find a partner that already has established a large traffic base."
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Los Angeles-based Pluggedin Media , which operates a web site focused on streaming of high quality, music videos in HD and broadcast quality, is looking for a buyer. O'Brien is one of the co-founders of Xdrive, which was sold to AOL in 2005. The firm's chairman, Brett O'Brien, told socalTECH that, contrary to other reports, the firm is not shutting down, but that they are in the process of selling the company. "We We have built a great team and a supersite for music fans, but the company now needs to find a partner that already has established a large traffic base."
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Phonevite , a startup which operates a service that allows groups such as schools and clubs to make mass phone calls to many people at once, has quietly relocated to Los Angeles from Silicon Valley, according to the firm's CEO and co-founder, John Nahm. Both Nahm and Kim were at voice-over-IP firm Dialpad, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2005. The firm, which offers both free and premium mass notification systems, was started in San Jose in 2007 by Nahm and co-founder Kalvin Kim. Phonevite is angel backed, and allows users to record messages via the web or a phone, add phone numbers
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
We caught up with John to learn a little bit more about what the firm's services offer, as well as how the firm ended up moving to Los Angeles.
Explain Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. Last year, we were passively trying to get users to come to web site, experience things, and buy, this year we're going after them.
So Recently, we spoke with John Nahm, the CEO and co-founder of Phonevite (www.phonevite.com), a new startup in town which recently relocated from Silicon Valley. Explain what Phonevite
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
We recently ran across TravBuddy.com (www.travbuddy.com), a Los Angeles area travel site which allows travelers to meet others, share travel reviews, photos, and more, and had thought it would be great to hear the story behind the site. Eric Bjorndahl: At the highest level, we're a social networking web site for travelers. The The highly ranked travel site was founded, and bootstrapped, by two brothers--Eric and David Bjorndahl--and we talked with Eric about the company. (Photo: Photo: David on the left, Eric on the right).
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market.
Let's The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California. He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. It will be interesting to see what happens with the Los Angeles venture capital market.
Finally, A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com).
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