He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers In

Review: None Added 11/8/09 by Todd Zebert Name: Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum Sites: www.entforum.caltech.edu , twitter.com/CaltechMITForum Self-description: " About the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum The Caltech/MIT Enterprise forum is a joint venture of Caltech's Industrial Relations Center, Caltech’s Office of Technology Transfer, the Caltech Alumni Association and the MIT Alumni Association. Mission The mission of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum is to encourage the growth and success of technology-based entrepreneurial ventures in

CalTech, Polished 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? Tags: Investing SoCa IPO vs. Acquisition, Band of Angels vs. Tech

CalTech, Polished 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.

The spark for this post is that I'm going to go to Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum on Saturday. 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 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

so I feel I have an unbiased appreciation for BOTH Californias. We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more.  We But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.  We So it’s always a trade-off.  You Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All

Honor a Hero Hire a Vet” Job and Resource Fair, by the United States Veterans Initiative and the State of California Employment Development Department (EDD) . Or better yet, get there early (the last event had something like 5,000 job seekers!) Regular Updates: 4 Updates and 5 New in SoCal Networking Event Organizations . New comments in SoCal Educational Networking & Job Search Organizations . Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on events. A Special Notice: Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 10

Alumni events 2 updates and 14 new in SoCal Networking Event Organizations . New ideas in SoCal Educational Networking & Job Search Organizations . New items and updates in Other & Indirect Job Networking Opportunities SoCal Networking Event Organizations Name: Media Leaders (LA) Review: I attended towards the en of their event at Bodega Wine Bar in Santa Monica. Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on events. Sorry I missed last week; this week is extra value (same low cost).

Anderson doesn’t mention Southern California–maybe because we keep beating New England in venture funding, or because his first point–that cities where the weather sucks are good for keeping people at work–doesn’t apply. All tech startups need just a few ingredients to germinate: sophisticated money; first-rate technology universities; and a few template successes (a Google or a Facebook, and so on) to encourage founders to get off their duffs. Howard Anderson, a venture capitalist at Battery Ventures and a professor at MIT, has an interesting post on GigaOM about 5 Reasons To Move Your Startup Out of Silicon Valley .

When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. (Graduated This is not so much because others are going to try to steal the idea, however, there is simply no upside in broadcasting your strategy to any would-be competitors. So I obsess about ways to iterate and make it better. Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn ,