On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. What is the Ventura incubator? It's about 10,000 square feet of space in downtown Ventura, in a city owned office building. We ended up selecting DFJ Frontier.

Created with the free version of Terapad, ads can be removed from $14.15 The SoCal Biotech Ventures Summit came out of the efforts of Brent Reinke, who started the Gold Coast Business Forum for educational and networking for executives, and John Dilts, who started Maverick Angels for investors interested in financing and mentoring startup companies.

The forum will be held in Westlake. Registration information is here (socalTECH is a sponsor). Speaking of biotech, Colin Stewart at the Orange County Register has a good summary of an FDA investigation  into Lasik. Santa Ana-based Advanced Medical Optics is a major supplier of equipment in the industry. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.

Ventura-based The Trade Desk , the new online ad exchange firm headed by former AdECN founder Jeff Green , is announcing today that it has partnered with Acquisio , a PPC management software provider. Green was founder of AdECN, an ad exchange purchased by Microsoft in 2007. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

Ventura-based The Trade Desk , a new online Internet advertising exchange firm headed by AdECN co-founder Jeff Green, has raised $2.5M Green was last COO at Microsoft AdECN, after AdECN's acquisition by Microsoft in 2007. in a venture funding round.

It looks like it’s a particularly bad day for Ventura County:  Imation (in Camarillo) closing its plant and Midway Games closing its operations in Moorpark. July 22, 2008 The last few years has been notable in the lack of major cutbacks (or at least, attention to layoffs) at local companies. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.

He passed away in 2007. Another fond memory was in 2006 when I  took my Grandpa fishing out at the Channel Islands off Ventura County. Today is Fast Eddy’s 89th birthday. He was my Grandpa, and it finally hit me today how much I miss him. It was our last fishing trip together, and we both knew it. Do You Realize. Do You Realize

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Last week, Ventura-based The Trade Desk (www.thetradedesk.com) announced a $2.5M The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. funding round. We talked with Jeff about his new startup, and where it fits into the Internet ad market. million. Thanks!

BBB of Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties. 2007 Closed Complaints – 2. How many BBB logos are there? What is the Better Business Bureau? It’s not a government agency. It’s not policed by a government agency. It’s not even run like a top down corporation. Well, I caved and signed up. per year.