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1208 Articles match "2009","Technology"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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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.
Southern California has been lucky in that it has developed a number of clusters where there are now self-sustaining groups of technology companies, helping to bolster the region’s employment and wealth.
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.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
The Orange County meeting is new for 2009, and while the following is true for the LA meeting the OC one is probably similar: You pay as you walk in, meet the organizers, get a name tag, fill a plate from the buffet, and then find a seat, family style, with the other approximately 100 networkers. Its success in New York quickly led to French Tuesdays being established in Miami in 2004, Los Angeles in 2006, San Francisco in 2007 and Paris in 2009. 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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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Fast forward through a series of dark New York minutes and four years in Hollywood to a fortuitous rainy San Francisco night in May 2009, and I’m crashing Los Angeles transplant Drew Olanoff’s departure party, where I met former Gawker gossip king Owen Thomas, now of NBCBayArea.com. In short, the tech community in SF, lives, eats, and breathes technology. There is a saying about three different magnificent cities I have lived in twice. “If If you are smart, you move to San Francisco.
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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. You
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tags: Start-up Advice startup technolog This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons ”
Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation
Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company. This This is the only mistake
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tags: Start-up Advice startup technolog Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class
This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice . There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find. I’m not one of those.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice .
I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0
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Friday, May 15, 2009
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. He graduated from Rhodes College and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (MBA). Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Do agree with me that “cool technology” isn’t enough? (You can also see this video on YouTube .)
Ever notice how dot-com CEOs keep getting excited about cool features, but hardly ever mention sales?
You can learn a lot about the power of persistence and salesmanship from Baron Reichart Von Wolfsheild, co-founder of Qtask, a collaboration and project management tool.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Is your business’s success going to be based on execution or technology? Or Back in the dot-com days, competitive advantage was largely based on technology development. For It’s probably not the technology.
Technology remains a competitive advantage in many areas: life science, Or is it something in between?
For example, if you wanted to build an e-commerce site in 1996, it was really hard! Any efficiencies
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
If you want to vote for this interview on my favorite new site, click here . --AW AW I know that I'm not blowing your mind by telling you that Thrillist is making $5 million through its email-based newsletter for affluent men. You've probably read about it on other sites. I didn't invite Ben Lerer, the company's co-founder, to Mixergy just so
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice . Many startup companies hire advisory boards. It’s very tempting. It’s mostly done by first-time entrepreneurs who want to persuade (bribe?)
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC” – the outline is here.
You’ve You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Everybody seems to like you but nobody seems to be getting out their checkbooks.
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