RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in... Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010

Join our  LinkedIn group if you haven’t already. Your startup (or startup aspirations!).  This This must be your first startup in order to win. Only fools rush in to venture money, and for good reason – underestimate the bargaining power of your target investor, and you may just end up with a broken heart. Dealmaker has been putting together conferences and roundtables in LA of consistently high quality for the past two years.  These These are the folks that put on the Startonomics conference this past February at UCLA, which was a great primer

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. Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum . At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this.