Frequency: Multiple times a month, in Los Feliz, Carlsbad, Burbank, Irvine Cost: Free Review: You'll need a free membership to Xing to see the details on the community page Added 10/2/09 by Todd Zebert Name: Challenger Networking Group (CA) Sites: www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2037237 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. 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

Weekly updates to the main SoCal Networking Event Organizations list . Frequency: Multiple times a month, in Los Feliz, Carlsbad, Burbank, Irvine Cost: Free Review: You'll need a free membership to Xing to see the details on the community page Added 10/2/09 by Todd Zebert Name: Challenger Networking Group (CA) Sites: www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2037237 Affiliated and linked with other general and specific groups in Southern California Ventura Highway offers excellent opportunities Please let me know if know of other organizations to add, or if you have any feedback on events.

One argument I hear quite frequently–usually from venture capitalists from Silicon Valley–that one of Southern California’s advantages is at the intersection of entertainment and technology. This usually is because the technologists in Southern California don’t hang out with the folks in Hollywood, and the typical folks in Hollywood wouldn’t know the first thing about a technology startup. Interestingly enough, as a daily observer of the startup world here I don’t find quite as many technology-plus-Hollywood startups around. Yes,

Many commuters and executives who fly between Southern California and Silicon Valley were stymied by a massive shutdown of flights by Southwest Airlines Thursday afternoon, after high winds and heavy rain prompted the airline to cancel travel to and from Burbank, Ontario, Orange County, and San Diego airports. The cancellations came after two airliners were struck by lightning near Burbank airport Thursday morning. Southwest, in a notice posted to customers on its web site, said it would cancel flights to and from BUR and ONT between 1pm and 6pm, the majority of flights after 1pm at SNA, and the majority of flights the whole day to and from SAN.

Note to SoCal startups: do not–I repeat–do not attempt launch your company on the same day as every other startup in the world, which appears to be today with both DEMOfall and TechCrunch 50. It’s awfully tough to whittle through the huge pile of companies to find those relevant to folks here in Southern California. Those I’ve seen so far DEMOfall has 72 companies launching, and TechCrunch50 has 52 (?). The biggest winner, so far — is DocStoc , which isn’t launching, but which is hosting the “official” PDF event guide

Many commuters and executives who fly between Southern California and Silicon Valley were stymied by a massive shutdown of flights by Southwest Airlines Thursday afternoon, after high winds and heavy rain prompted the airline to cancel travel to and from Burbank, Ontario, Orange County, and San Diego airports. Southwest, in a notice posted to customers on its web site, said it would cancel flights to and from BUR and ONT between 1pm and 6pm, the majority of flights after 1pm at SNA, and the majority of flights the whole day to and from SAN. Southwest's flights between those

It's unclear if any of those employees involved in the deal would be located in Yahoo's Southern California locations, which include Burbank, San Diego, and Santa Monica. Further details on the deal between Yahoo and Microsoft have come out in a filing by Yahoo with the SEC, with Yahoo saying that Microsoft will hire at least 400 Yahoo employees, and potentially another 150 employees to help with the transition, as Microsoft takes over the search engine features of Yahoo's sites. Yahoo and Microsoft said last Wednesday that Yahoo will abandon its search engine development

2 Updates and 7 New in SoCal Networking Event Organizations . Updates to SoCal Educational Networking & Job Search Organizations . Updates to Other & Indirect Job Networking Opportunities SoCal Networking Event Organizations Name: So Cal Sushi Cost: Free, excluding cost of food and drink Review: Last week Neal re-started his LA-local meetings (they were primarily in OC) and of course there was an interesting selection of people. Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on

The seven minute piece went on to showcase many of our accomplishments as a company, including the awarding of Services Company of the Year in 2006 by the Tech Council of Southern California and our back to back wins of “Best of Computer Repair” in Santa Barbara, voted on by readers of the Independent. is sponsoring and hosting at the their HQ in Burbank, and Make It Work is hosting the AFTERPARTY at Burbank Bar and Grill. Yesterday, Make It Work got together at our partner South Bay Mini’s offices to discuss our achievements, our challenges and our future…we called it “Launch to the Moon, 2010.”