14 Articles match "Angel","VentureNet"

The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
It’s that same discussion around how you are using social media. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? What was the best one you've been to recently? VentureNet, Perfect Pitch You and I have both been on the board of the technology council. We won the Industry Awards category of Services Company of the Year that led to meeting the Executive Director of CTM at USC who asked me to I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses.
 
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The evidence of this broader reality is overwhelming and is directly contrary to Wil’s personal experience: •    Venture capitalists invested 48% less capital in Southern California during the third quarter with $458 million put into 66 deals (Dow Jones Q309) •    Dramatic move away from first time/early investments – 60% decline year over year in first time financing dollars (PWC MoneyTree) •    13 year low in technology investing (Dow Jones09) •    Massive drop off on new deals from groups like TCA and Pasadena Angels – now primarily focused on supporting existing deals (just ask a TCA
 
Monday, October 12, 2009
This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles. I want to take you through a bit of what brought me here, because I think it will help explain what I mean by visible networking. Networking Events – Questionable Return on Your Time Last week I posted about Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California and received back some interesting comments, some of the best from a LinkedIn Group. Several of the comments there echoed what I've been feeling: Person 1: I have attended a plethora of networking groups and have also found it harder and harder to continue to be motivated to go. Person 2: Very discouraging (few if any happy with their networking efforts) but not unexpected.
 

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He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. They put on great events. VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council. CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to. AITP-LA – Monthly events. You can use keywords like: Events in Los Angeles or Southern California Events Great post by John Shiple. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his
The VentureNet 2008 Selection/Screening Committee has been announced.  Wow, what a prestigous list of Southern California venture capitalists, angel investors, and conference sponsors!  We’re fortunate to have such a talented group that will ensure a very exciting software and IT capital conference this year.  Jim Jim Andelman, Rincon Venture Partners John
One event, two technology superstars: Jason Calcanis & John Suh will be the featured speakers at this year’s VentureNet in Costa Mesa on September 12th. John Tags: Company News Events Venture Capital angel investor funding investor VentureNe John Suh, CEO of Legalzoom.com will present ”Successful Launch Strategies for Online Businesses” Jason Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com will be presenting ”New Challenges and Innovative Solutions for Publishers in a Web 2.0
One event, two technology superstars: Jason Calcanis & John Suh will be the featured speakers at this year’s VentureNet in Costa Mesa on September 12th. John John Suh, CEO of Legalzoom.com will present ”Successful Launch Strategies for Online Businesses” Jason Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com will be presenting ”New Challenges and Innovative Solutions for Publishers in a Web 2.0
Angels, private equity investors, investment bankers, and, of course, a who’s who of the VC community will be on hand to see Only 12 companies will have the chance to convince the biggest gathering of technology investors to be assembled in Southern California this year that theirs is the company that deserves to be funded.
This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles. I want to take you through a bit of what brought me here, because I think it will help explain what I mean by visible networking. Networking Events – Questionable Return on Your Time Last week I posted about Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California and received back some interesting comments, some of the best from a LinkedIn Group. Several of the comments there echoed what I've been feeling: Person 1: I have attended a plethora of networking groups and have also found it harder and harder to continue to be motivated to go. Person 2: Very discouraging (few if any happy with their networking efforts) but not unexpected.
He shuttled deals between 5 networks at Tech Coast Angels; over 8 years he's seen more than 100 companies get funded. But Jeff's heart is with VentureNet, he's helped run the event for the past 5 years, and since it's less than a week away it's time for you to jump! Today Jeff's with MHS Capital with a different investment strategy. Register today at VentureNet.org .
Was he rooting for McCain/Palin when he named his angel group Maverick? If I had this interview to do over, I'd ask, but we do cover all things related to angel investing in Southern California, especially its newest angel group, the Maverick Angels . Southern California already has mature, well established angel groups like the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels ; is there room for one more? Westlake Village, to be more specific, which once hosted a Keiretsu Forum chapter. Is Maverick Keiretsu reincarnated?
Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. (socalTECH The panelists included James Cham of Bessemer Venture Partners; Beau Laskey of Steamboat Ventures; Greg Martin of Redpoint Ventures; Leo Spiegel of Mission Ventures; Ross Levinsohn of Velocity Interactive; Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Venture Partners; Mike Stuhley of the Tech Coast Angels; and Gus Tai of Trinity Ventures. READ MOR socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference).
It’s that same discussion around how you are using social media. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? What was the best one you've been to recently? VentureNet, Perfect Pitch You and I have both been on the board of the technology council. We won the Industry Awards category of Services Company of the Year that led to meeting the Executive Director of CTM at USC who asked me to I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses.