Los Angeles? Los Angles founders are hustlers and deal makers. At parties in Los Angeles people talk about a media deal they’re “closing”, what TV star is at the party, and some “gray hat” spam-like technique that made them an extra 100K last month. Folks in Los Angeles are shrewder business people, have better interpersonal skills, but are more full of shit and two faced, and struggle to build products that get virally adopted. Is there a difference between tech startups in Silicon Valley vs. Most emphatically, Yes !

My time in New York was a good nine lives ago, but my adventures in both Los Angeles and San Francisco are fresh and ripe for dissecting. LA techies have to work harder to be taken seriously because Los Angeles is the entertainment mecca of the world, not the tech capital. However, while both crowds love to love the city of San Francisco, San Franciscans love to loathe Los Angeles, which is understandable in some regards. There is a saying about three different magnificent cities I have lived in twice. “If If you are smart, you move to San Francisco.

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign

Venture capital firm Prism VentureWorks has shut its offices in Los Angeles, according to a report Friday by peHUB. Tags: prism ventureworks venture capital angele According to the report, the firm's Venice offices were shut to save money on overhead for the firm, with partner Gordie Nye continuing to work here out of his home office. Prism's SoCal investments include Mota Motors, Six Degree Games, ibeatyou, and Comedy.com. ...Tags:

If the limited partners who fund venture firms either a) change the percent of funds they allocate to VCs or b) don’t come through on their capital calls, we’ll all quickly find the venture community becoming drastically constrained. Erick Schonfeld writes about the current state of affairs in his TechCrunch post: “ The End of Venture Capital as We Know It ” There has been a lot of conjecture about how the Venture community will respond to the economic downturn. My personal opinion is that its going to be bad, really bad.

Bay area venture capital firm Mayfield Fund appears to be eyeing more investments in the Los Angeles area, with the addition of Sean Moriarty , the former CEO of Ticketmaster, as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the firm. Mayfield said it hopes to "tap innovative networks in Los Angeles" by working with Moriarty, who is located here. According to Mayfield, it added Sean Moriarty--along with Neopath Networks Rajeev Chawla--as an EIR at the firm, specifically to evaluate companies in the consumer, e-commerce and new mobile applications area. Mayfield has $2.8

Wiring Los Angeles (John Savageau) – a look into how downtown Los Angeles became a telecom hub, converting empty office space into one of the most densely connected telecom hubs in the world Tags: Technology Venture Capita A couple of Tuesday links: VC Funding Season Ends Next Week (Mark Suster) – Yes, there is such a thing as VC funding season, and it’s about over for this year. ...Tags:

gid=1801653 , www.centurycitycc.org Self-description: "EPEC works with the Los Angeles community, via the Century City Chamber of Commerce, to facilitate business relationships through quarterly networking events drawing hundreds of people aimed at the same goal." and "The group is for software CTOs in the Los Angeles area. Weekly updates to the main SoCal Networking Event Organizations list . Please let me know if know of other organizations to add, or if you have any feedback on events. Name: Challenger Networking Group (CA) Review: I've been told the

Just a quick self-plug: I’m moderating a panel on clean technology again this year at Los Angeles Technology Week , which is being held at the Los Angeles Business Technology Center in Altadena on October 22nd. Other panels and speakers at the event cover mobile devices, the video game industry, and venture capital (with help there from the Pasadena Angels). I’ll be talking with Michael Deck of Soliant Energy , Joseph Fisher of CFX Battery , Robb Pigg of J.F. Shea Co. ,