On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. who founded AdECN in Carpinteria, which was bought by Microsoft, is starting his second venture, Trade Desk, which is in stealth mode at the event, there's Netplenish.com, headed by Dave Compton, who founded Aqua Scientific, has a bitoech firm in Ventura, and is launching at the event. What The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms.

No need to RSVP" Added 10/2/09 by Todd Zebert Name: Ventura Highway Networking Group Sites: www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=53340 home=&gid=53340 , finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/VenturaHighwayGroup , geocities.com/venturahighwaygroup Self-description: "Ventura Highway Networking Group is career networking at its finest. Affiliated and linked with other general and specific groups in Southern California Ventura 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.

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This week is shaping up to be one of the busiest tech-event weeks so far this year yet, making me think again that a clone would help to actually get to all of these. Ventura Ventures is launching its Internet incubator on Thursday (our interview with Alex Schneider, the Executive Director of the incubator, will run tomorrow) with a launch party in Ventura and plenty of food from local downtown restaurants, plus presentations from startups Geodelic , Lottay , and others. (use Among the events happening this week are: Oversee.net ’s DOMAINfest , a huge, annual

No need to RSVP" Added 10/2/09 by Todd Zebert Name: Ventura Highway Networking Group Sites: www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=53340 home=&gid=53340 , finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/VenturaHighwayGroup , geocities.com/venturahighwaygroup Self-description: "Ventura Highway Networking Group is career networking at its finest. Affiliated and linked with other general and specific groups in Southern California Ventura Weekly updates to the main SoCal Networking Event Organizations list . Please let me know if know of other organizations to add, or if you have any

For today's Insights and Opinions piece, we have an article from John Dilts , founder of the Maverick Angels and one of the co-founders of The BioTech Forum , the effort to jump start biotech startup activity in Ventura County. John lays out his argument on why groups like his are vital to helping shape the way angels and entrepreneurs interact. There's been a lot of controversy and debate in recent months over how angel investment groups ought to be structured, if they ought to charge entrepreneurs, and other similar issues about the role of organized groups and companies in the investment process.

Another fond memory was in 2006 when I  took my Grandpa fishing out at the Channel Islands off Ventura County. If there’s one thing you take away from reading this, my hope would that you ask yourself this: “Who in my life, older in years, could I help,  I mean really really help make their final frail years merry and meaningful. Today is Fast Eddy’s 89th birthday.  He He passed away in 2007.

That wasn't particularly helpful, but I charged ahead and signed up. The meeting location is the beautiful ValleyCrest Companies corporate headquarters located at: 24151 Ventura Boulevard, Calabasas, CA 91302 Cost: Free - excluding optional dinner ($5) Review: None Added 10/25/09 by Todd Zebert Name: American Business Women's Association (ABWA) Sites: [link] , facebook.com/group.php?gid=19055708136 Council - Orange, Riverside, Los Angeles and San Bernadino Counties , Inland Valley Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you

Allow members to network and benefit from each other's expertise and encourage referrals between members. " Frequency: Monthly Cost: Free Review: None Added 10/9/09 by Todd Zebert Name: OPEN/Ventura Highway Mixer Sites: finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/VenturaHighwayGroup Self-description: "Open mixer for members, alumni recruiters and hiring managers. Review: "Their mission is to help women grow both personally and professionally" Added 10/13/09 by Todd Zebert as told by Robbie Motter (who runs this event) Name: South Orange County For You/NAFE Network Sites:

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