He graduated from Rhodes College and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (MBA). Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. Focusing on the entertainment, automotive, technology, retail and financial sectors, Sam oversees all aspects of the groups advertising relationships in conjunction with Google Team managers and sales leads across the region.

Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. Citrix, RIM, USC. Just found the title of my post. You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out? Flip flops required , How I got my mortgage company to lower my payments by $10k , Want more Twitter followers?, Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls) , Do your kids Google poo? Great posts. I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses.

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more.  We They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook.  As LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google.  We Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All

Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. We wrote up a business plan, and won a USC business plan competition, which allowed us to get funding from the University and raise venture capital we needed to begin development on the plan. For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers.

As I receive information about others, I'll post them, but here's some general tips to help you get started: If you don't already know the website of your college, you should be able to Google it, or if that fails, try the Wikipedia article on California Colleges and Universities . Or, start one! The University of Southern California's Alumni Association (my Alma Mater) The USC Alumni Association is on Facebook , LinkedIn and offers various types of events , Career Assistance , podcasts with career and industry information. This is a sister list to SoCal Networking Event Organizations and focuses on the Networking events and resources of SoCal Educational Institutions (primarily Colleges & Universities).

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. Here’s in Southern California, that first-rate sophisticated money includes both a good pool of venture investors (not to mention lots of transitory money from Sand Hill Road); lots of technology universities (Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Harvey Mudd, etc. 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 .

As I receive information about others, I'll post them, but here's some general tips to help you get started: If you don't already know the website of your college, you should be able to Google it, or if that fails, try the Wikipedia article on California Colleges and Universities . Win win. The University of Southern California's Alumni Association (my Alma Mater) The USC Alumni Association is on Facebook , LinkedIn and offers various types of events , Career Assistance , podcasts with career and industry information. This is a sister list to SoCal Networking Event Organizations and focuses on the Networking events and resources of SoCal Educational Institutions (primarily Colleges & Universities).

had the opportunity to talk to an MBA class at USC last night, and talking to the students I was surprised to find that most of the students weren’t aware of how much clean technology activity there is in Southern California. You mention solar, and people don’t realize there’s quite a bit of activity here–even though you have firms like eSolar (Google invested $130M in them, btw), Energy Innovations , and Soliant Energy . I’m always interested in how much more focus Silicon Valley companies get in the press–and mindshare–than companies located in Southern California, even among people here in the region.

Try Googling "ceospace club ca" to find local SoCal chapters... Frequency/Location: Weekly (dates shown through Nov 09) Cost: Free Review: None Added 10/21/09 by Todd Zebert SoCal Educational Networking & Job Search Organizations This week I attended my 3rd USC Marshall Alumni luncheon and they've all been filled with great conversation among accomplished professionals and business owners. I also attended my second USC Marshall Alumni LA Business Networking Mixer. Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback