It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. Standing room only crowd at StartEngine). It's unclear. MORE >>

This week, why not get an early start to your weekend while helping out the local community as well? LA’s event is hosted by Philanthro and will be held at The Association downtown to benefit Los Angeles Team Mentoring. We know you like going to Happy Hour on Thursdays since it’s practically the weekend already. MORE >>

'Can your software skills help make your local community a better place? Could doing some coding over a weekend help improve your local government? According to the group, the hackathon is the first ever "civic hackathon" in Los Angeles, and asks participants to pull in civic data from the City of LA to help power apps. MORE >>

The accelerator said that it is aiming at helping entrepreneurs--particularly in the social and mobile technology space--in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County with pre-seed funding and mentoring. ycombinator techstars mentor capital social startup entrepreneur accelerator venture k5launchREAD MORE>>. MORE >>

One of the groups trying to help local startups in their efforts to find funding and get to the next leve, the Founder Institute , said this morning that its early deadline for its Spring 2013, San Diego session is this Sunday. classes mentoring startups diego institute founderREAD MORE>>. MORE >>