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53 Articles match "Company","High Tech","Startup"
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Where High Tech Meets High Surf! An Evening To Meet Start-Up Entrepreneurs and the Organizations That Back Them. Where are the next generation of high-tech companies getting their start? You can meet the entrepreneurs behind those companies, and network with the venture investors, university professors, funding sources and business partners Wednesday, March 24, 2010 -- ACG 101 Networking Event. For many of them, the answer is four blocks from the beach, in the heart of downtown Ventura.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.
Silicon Create Demand for California's Technology Companies.
The Need office or Tech Space? Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies
Deloitte It's time again for us to thanks all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible. Please let them know how much you appreciate their support of socalTECH!
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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.
but this is probably the first time anyone has tallied up exactly how much value has been generated from venture investments here, at least in terms of investment value. 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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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. I But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? So people diligently put in their hours every year, brag about how little vacation they’ve taken and try to save up for 45 years so that one day in their late 60’s (or in today’s era 70’s) they can do what they’ve always dreamed of. They A couple of years ago I read the popular book, “The Four Hour Workweek ” by Tim Ferriss. It It was recommended to me by my friend,
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
I scan it for the most important messages to be sure nothing urgent has popped up.
8221; They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. About six months ago I signed up for a service called PhoneTag run by Jamie Siminoff . They I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan ” and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
From the company's About page: "We started out as GotVMail Communications in 2003, after identifying the need for an easy-to-use virtual phone system for entrepreneurs that wouldn’t break the bank. ... As Rather than paying this guy a million dollars up front on day one and then having to break even point some few years later, we said, 'We'll pay you as we grow.' But If you like my interview, please vote for it on my favorite news site. --Andrew Andrew
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Anyone familiar with the Southern California high tech market is well aware of the great success that Oversee.net has had in the domain name market has had, becoming (without much fanfare) a $200M company and dominant in its field. The firm was bootstrapped by Lawrence Ng and Fred Hsu, who turned up this week launching his new startup in Seattle. (Hsu It’s one of Southern California’s biggest, unheralded successes. Hsu ended up in Seattle for family reasons, so I won’t hold that against him ;-).
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
People talk a lot how an area creates an environment conducive to startups and high tech entrepreneurship. One huge factor in “startup creation” here is the presence of at least two, highly ranked MBA programs in Los Angeles. We just posted an interview with a company (Scripped) with a little bit of both USC and UCLA — a USC film MFA with a UCLA Anderson MBA, but they are just the latest of many, many startups we UCLA Anderson is ranked by U.S. News & World Report at #11, and USC Marshall is ranked by U.S.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
They make the mistake of thinking that the consumer marketing done by large companies like P&G or Coke will work for entrepreneurial consumer companies.
Or, they think that the business-to-business marketing done by large companies like IBM or Johnson Controls will work for entrepreneurial B-to-B companies.
Successful entrepreneurial marketing, especially for a high-tech startup, is Many people think that marketing is marketing -- that there is one approach to marketing for whichever industry or sector you sell into.
Not so.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
They make the mistake of thinking that the consumer marketing done by large companies like P&G or Coke will work for entrepreneurial consumer companies.
Or, they think that the business-to-business marketing done by large companies like IBM or Johnson Controls will work for entrepreneurial B-to-B companies.
Successful entrepreneurial marketing, especially for a high-tech startup, is very different Many people think that marketing is marketing -- that there is one approach to marketing for whichever industry or sector you sell into.
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Last week, one of those never-ending topics of discussion came up at Twiistup on a panel about whether or not Southern California was a good place to put your startup. flights) than there are open slots of executives at local startups in Southern California.
There’s enough examples of very successful Southern California startups, and there are going to reasons to locate your business here or Silicon On one side, you had Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Mike Jones of MySpace who were saying “yes”, and on the other side, you had Jamie Montgomery of Montgomery and Co. ,
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Orange County's effort to boost startup and high tech companies, OCTANe, is losing its President and CEO, Gary Augusta, and has retained an executive search firm to find a replacement, the group said Thursday. In a letter to OCTANe's mailing list, Augusta said that the organization has started a search for his successor, and retained Spencer Stuart to run a formal search. Augusta will continue to serve as CEO until a new CEO is found. According to Augusta, he is looking to leave because OCTANe has moved out of the "start-up" phase, and that he wanted to "pursue
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
based companies. gid=1775486 Self-description: "80% of jobs (or more) are found through networking, so as a group of professionals from many different industries, we started our own local networking group in 2008. Companies researched and applications sent. Frequency: Up to several times a month. 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. Attendees: If you have review comments I'd be happy to consider them.
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