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29 Articles match "2007","Southern California"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. Still it’s something that most managers need to learn how to do better. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? Vince: Always On Paid Content TwiistUp
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. The study found that the greatest values for Southern California venture-backed firms were created by companies operating in Online Services (51%), followed by Communications and Networking (15%), Software (10%) and Semiconductors (9%). The study, conducted by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners , includes data from socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database , Dow Jones/VentureSource, and Greg Martin of Redpoint Ventures .
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Monday, March 8, 2010
As a way of thanking you for your good work, we'll give you a free ticket good for one day admission to a Walt Disney World® or Disneyland® theme park. " Summary Follow these links to find the updates, and follow further for the full listings. 8 New and 4 Updates in SoCal Networking Event Organizations . No updates for SoCal Educational Networking & Job Search Organizations . 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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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. Will's post talks about lack of interest in working for startups here in Southern California, saying: ..we b) history of success; and c) abundance of start-up companies (so if one fails there is another to we probably’d don’t have the: a) same support infrastructure (meet-ups, networking events, etc.);
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
But, what's interesting is that the old SoCal events hosted by folks like the Technology Council seem to be struggling for attendees, while you get 250 to a networking only event during the middle of the day. I've been remiss in posting to this blog. Very busy on a couple interesting start-ups. More on them in a couple months.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Southern California Companies. However, Southern California is catching up to its big brother and now accounts for two-thirds of the state's GDP, making it the 15th largest economy in the world? In 2007, the region saw the second highest level of capital investment in the U.S. (beat Tags: Investing IPO vs. Acquisition, Band of Angels vs.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Southern California Companies. However, Southern California is catching up to its big brother and now accounts for two-thirds of the state's GDP, making it the 15th largest economy in the world? In 2007, the region saw the second highest level of capital investment in the U.S. (beat IPO vs. Acquisition, Band of Angels vs.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
There is one thing I learned a long time about about setting goals, “you manage what you measure” so you need to begin by regularly recording your weight.
In January 2007 I had a resolution to lose weight and I didn’t want to do it through some crash diet like Atkins that I felt wasn’t sustainable for me. So So I signed up for the online version of Weight Watchers. It Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe. That’s
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
This summer, we set out to study how this national trend plays out in Southern California. Southern California has less than 3% of venture capital dollars raised since 2002;Â amounts raised in Silicon Valley, Boston and New York at 10X, 6X and 5X more respectively.
 Southern California is at the bottom of the barrel with other major markets having at least 2X and as much as 7X more capital ready to deploy into start-ups.
If you follow the venture market, or if you have recently tried to raise money for an early stage company, you know that there is a serious “funding gap� in the early stage market across the US.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Several Southern California technology innovators from Southern California were recognized this morning in a ceremony at the White House, at the 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation awards. Bush awarded the 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation to a number of companies and individuals, including a number of Southern California technology pioneers. In a ceremony today, President George W. Awardees included UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock, who was recognized for his work on packet switching and the Internet; Andrew J.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Alumni events 2 updates and 14 new in SoCal Networking Event Organizations . New ideas in SoCal Educational Networking & Job Search Organizations . New items and updates in Other & Indirect Job Networking Opportunities SoCal Networking Event Organizations Name: Media Leaders (LA) Review: I attended towards the en of their event at Bodega Wine Bar in Santa Monica. Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on events. Sorry I missed last week; this week is extra value (same low cost).
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Most sectors saw drops in investment during the year, with the exception of few--including a couple of sectors where Southern California has a significant presence, in Clean Technology and Media & Entertainment. Clean Technology saw a 52 percent increase in terms of dollars, and 16 percent growth in deal volume over 2007, reaching an investment level of $4.1 PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. invested in Q3 of 2007, and down slightly from venture numbers in Q2, when there was approximately $966M in venture deals.
The socalTECH tracks The numbers, which were drawn from venture deals tracked and reported in socalTECH's proprietary venture capital database, found that there was $719.7M in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from
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