Los Angeles? Los Angles founders are hustlers and deal makers. At parties in Los Angeles people talk about a media deal they’re “closing”, what TV star is at the party, and some “gray hat” spam-like technique that made them an extra 100K last month. Folks in Los Angeles are shrewder business people, have better interpersonal skills, but are more full of shit and two faced, and struggle to build products that get virally adopted. Is there a difference between tech startups in Silicon Valley vs. Most emphatically, Yes !

Attendees: If you have review comments I'd be happy to consider them. Name: XING Community Los Angeles Sites: https://www.xing.com/net/la/ , www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=33803 gid=33803 (main), https://www.xing.com/ Self-description: "This forum is dedicated to all Los Angeles inhabitants, visitors of the area and business minded people from all around the world, who would like to explore business opportunities with L.A. This is will be a continually updating post. I'll be creating additional lists for educational, chamber of commerce, etc. Organizational representatives: please contact me directly for updates, etc.

Los Angeles, CA 90049 December 11th 2008 LA Web Developers Tech Coast Angels Jeff Cohn, Tech Coast Angels Howdy Campers! Digital Family Reunion is bringing all of the LA Tech/Business/Media scene together next month, for a nice holiday party at the Skirball Center! It should be a blast having so many great LA communities together, sharing their thoughts and having

Los Angeles has a vast ecosystem of advertising management talent to draw upon and will naturally be the beneficiary of this industry boo Google's new Ad Manager technology will soon enable premium ad banners to be sold directly to advertisers by publishers and when the clicks are used up on the premium ads it will revert automatically to use Google Adsense. This is a brilliant move and will further accelerate the gap between premium content and generic publishers who don't provide any unique content value.

Here is the list of all things tech/web going on in Los Angeles in December 2008. Click Here to Download or Embed Los Angeles Tech Events - December 2008 But it does also go to show how Los Angeles is different than Silicon Valley . Los Angeles Tech Events - December 2008 - Get more Information Technology ...Tags: This list is put together each month by my friend Nicole Jordan , follow her on twitter The playboy pic is just for random sensationalism.

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. He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications. Michael Goldstein, CEO of Stun Media Michael Goldstein is the Chief Executive Officer & Strategic 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.

Yammer, a Twitter-like spinout out of high profile Los Angeles genealogy firm Geni.com, has scored the top prize at the TechCrunch50 awards in San Francisco. Geni is the online, Web 2.0-style genealogy and social networking web site headed up by former PayPal founder David Sacks; the firm is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and Founders Fund. Yammer offers instant messaging focused on internal corporate communications, and is the result of work by engineers at Geni. READ MOR

Los Angeles-based maniaTV, which develops video content for the web, said today that it has hired six new executives at the firm. According to the firm, it has hired on Daniel Paul as VP of Business Develompent, Michael Klein as VP of Sales, Chris Sniffen as National Sales Director, Steven Przybylowski as Director of Content Operations, Andrea Chu as Director of Content Distrbution, and Ron Lucero as Director of Software and Website Development. Paul joins from Joost; Klein from National Lampoon; Sniffen from JumpTV and NBC; Przybylowski from G4TV, Chu from Paramount Pictures,

Last week I hosted a panel of Los Angeles Venture Capitalists with Jim Armstrong (Clearstone Ventures), Mark Suster (GRP), David Travers (Rustic Canyon), and Brian Garrett (Crosscut Ventures). If you’re about to start a web based business, consider building websites or applications that aren’t going to need a lot of capital before they start making money. There has been a lot of conjecture about how the Venture community will respond to the economic downturn. My personal opinion is that its going to be bad, really bad.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 -- Hollywood Web Televsion Meetup: December. The 4th monthly Hollywood Web Television Meetup brings together Los Angeles' rich, diverse creative talent for the purpose of sharing resources, finding opportunities for collaboration, and helping talented content creators to shape the future of web television. See [link] (mor