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 addition to these, I'd recommend looking at: Technology Council of Southern California – Surprised John didn't mention this one.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 -- Bootstrapping Your Start-up: Lessons Learned from Building a Business During a Recession. MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast. Building a business is challenging enough during times of economic expansion. Learn how one entrepreneur built a successful business during a recessionary environment.

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum . The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning...

MIT Enterprise Forum. Benjamin, Founder, The Benjamin Group and Author, Successful Startups; Panelist: Lex Sisney, Co-founder, Current Analytics; Moderator: Sejal Hall, Industry Partners Program Manager, Institute for Energy Efficiency, UCSB. Wednesday, November 18, 2009 -- Track Calls Like Clicks A Case Presentation by RingRevenue. Presenter: Jason Spievak, CEO, RingRevenue.

MIT Enterprise Forum of San Diego. Some start up companies see bad times as an opportunity and will thrive in the face of this global economic crisis. Wednesday, February 18, 2009 -- Building Your Business in the Face of Global Competition: Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times. If you're an entrepreneur, you always see the glass half full; "difficult economic times" is just another way of saying "exciting new opportunities ahead."

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu . 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.

Successful Venture in Challenging Times" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Planning to start a company? Hear from a panel of six experts what it takes to launch and grow a start-up in this difficult economic environment. Anyone running a company or thinking about starting one will want to hear what lessons these seasoned entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have learned. Saturday, January 10, 2009 -- "War Stories from the Front Line: Critical Critical Insights on Building a Successful

Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- "Building a Virtually Integrated Life Sciences Company" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Smaller companies, often startups, are also using technologies developed at non-profit institutions to develop new lead compounds, new manufacturing methodologies, and new drug delivery vehicles, rather than invest in their own in-house early stage research.The December 6, 2008 session of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum will focus on the new business model for the biotechnology entrepreneur. The traditional business model dominating the pharmaceutical industry for over 100 years is rapidly eroding under new drivers for innovation and increasing financial pressures.

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. And how does a green building startup receive funding? To answer these questions, the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum is bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and builders to discuss the needs of green building and opportunities for innovation in order to bring the U.S. Saturday, November 8, 2008 -- "Green Building: Where are Spaces for Entrepreneurship in Green Building?" With the carrot in place and the stick coming, the industry is set to explode and it is huge: green building runs the gamut from high tech to innovative uses of low

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. This event will examine the future landscape in new media revenue models with a keynote presentation, company presentations and a panel of expert speakers from many content channels including entertainment executives, internet thought leaders, investors, industry associations and innovative startups. Saturday, February 6, 2010 -- New Media Revenue Models: Growing Greenbacks in the Digital Ecosystem. The New Media ecosystem is growing rapidly with content distribution networks, mobile devices and social networks connecting and interconnecting consumers like