Affiliated and linked with other general and specific groups in Southern California Ventura Highway offers excellent opportunities for those seeking contacts to further their professional goals. The group offers an online community with a physical counterpart of meetings and networking with people in Southern California. gid=1775486 Self-description: "80% of jobs (or 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.

Mission The mission of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum is to encourage the growth and success of technology-based entrepreneurial ventures in Southern California. Scope Through its monthly programs, the Forum provides advice, support, education and networking opportunities to technology-based ventures in the Southern California area. The whole point of business is to make the life you want to live possible--so This is will be a continually updating post. I'll be creating additional lists for educational , chamber of commerce, etc. See also Networking & Social

So, I've got no idea who's going. This also happens for Technology Council of Southern California , AITP-LA , TechBizConnection and others. So, I'm still hopeful they will find ways to include some of these capabilities and hopefully attract new audienc A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post.

Use someone else’s name - A friend (who I can’t name) told me that he gets into internet events in SoCal by telling people at the door that he’s me. He figures organizers often comp me a ticket for helping them, so he uses my name. When Timothy Ferriss came on Mixergy , he said meeting bloggers in person at conferences helped make his book a New York Times Best Seller. When Craig heard that, he brought up a good point.

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? Tags: Investing SoCa IPO vs. Acquisition, Band of Angels vs. Tech Coast Angels, Facebook vs.

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? IPO vs. Acquisition, Band of Angels vs. Tech Coast Angels, Facebook vs.

So, a bigger fund means that partners take home a lot of cash before generating returns. So, the result is very big funds who need to put big dollars to work.    I always find it amusing to hear venture capitalists in a $500mm fund talk about how they like to make early stage investments.   So, when IPOs and the stock market get tight, these VCs need to essentially “freeze” their activity (and their company’s activity) to wait for exit windows to open. Saturday’s TechCrunch had an article with the title above…  the “end” of traditional VC has been something that we (and many others) have been predicting for a while.  

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. I

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. In terms of industries, by far the largest funding area for Southern California was in the Industrial/Energy sector, with $316.3M According to the MoneyTree Report, based on data from Thomson Reuters, Los Angeles companies led the region with $385.6M in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M

Conferences like the So Cal Digital Tech Forum are starting to form to talk business; not just "techie" hype. You can't read, view or listen to any news media channel (Web mostly of course because mainstream old news media pretty much discounts Web 2.0 and vice versa...just just like viewers ignore Katie