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165 Articles match "2009","SoCal"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. I Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Launchpad LA SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice Startup Advic Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
This morning, we published the results of an extensive study of the impact of venture capital companies on Southern California in terms of exit values, finding that exits from VC-backed firms between 1995 and 2009 generated an astounding $48 billion (billion with a capital B) in value.
The study, which was conducted by Jon Funk of Ocean Road Partners (also of Allegis Capital), used data from our own venture capital database, additional data from Dow Jones/VentureSource, as well as private data collected by Redpoint Venturs’ Greg Martin.
The exits have been written about
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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, February 4, 2009
Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Our events feature several startups chosen to 'showoff' their products & services to influential bloggers, fellow technologists, investors, the media and those interested in learning about what's hot in socal tech. Twestival Local takes place in cities around the world during September 10-15, 2009." Tags: recruiting events clubs Southern California job 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. Attendees: If you
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Media optimization is starting to become a headline buzz word in 2009 as the recession drags into the near year. Tags: advertising SoCal monetization publishin Optimization is one solution to cutting costs that will virtually guarantee a return on your advertising investment if executed properly. If you are a savvy agency, advertiser or publisher and you are not using a platform or service to optimize your paid search, display and landing pages, you are getting behind the curve.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tags: Investing SoCal politic The Civil War II has begun but this time it’s not the North versus the South. This Civil War is about money under management in the financial services industry and it’s the West Coast versus the East Coast. Let me see if I can paint the picture for you . . .
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Monday, October 19, 2009
I have groups for Close Friends and SoCal. I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links. This is that post. Value of
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
WRS publishes two referral guides that members are encouraged to distribute throughout SoCal, the Yellow Book with members and pre-screened nonmembers listed, and the Blue Book, a list of members only. The events include: So Cal Sushi Social Media Roundtable LinkedIn 101 Workshop Social Media 101 for Businesses Introduction to Twitter for Professionals and Their Personal Branding Frequency/Location: Monthly / Executive Career Services 2955 Main St, Irvine, CA 92614 Cost: $25 Review: I've attended and reviewed Neal's SoCal Sushi Networking events in my list, so these look promising.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Tags: SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice VC Industr I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. My My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I [...]
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Tags: SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice VC Industr I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. My My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I hope benefit the Southern California technology ecosystem.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). We meet to discuss trends in the industry and to find ways to work together to help with SoCal deal syndication – somethings that happens automatically on Sand Hill Road in NorCal due to proximity.
Montgomery & Co Projects Deal Volume to Grow by 167% in Just 2 Years with No End to Growth in Sight
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Monday, January 19, 2009
billion--that drop represented the weakest quarter in SoCal in 5 years, according to Dow Jones. Tags: california jones 2009 venturesource southern venture capital investmen Southern California's venture capital numbers for Q4 slipped, as did numbers nationally, according to numbers released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource. According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2
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