The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.” Despite best intentions they probably won’t follow up on their actions. Why don’t VC’s follow up? If any of this happens it’s This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC .” 8221;  Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough.  Some

was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA .” 8221;  If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick.  They Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities.

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

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a small panel discussion between Jason Green (General Partner at Emergence Capital and investor in companies such as DoubleClick, aQuantive, and Ask Jeeves) and Reid Hoffman (Founder of LinkedIn, EVP at Paypal, and angel investor in over 60 startups such as Facebook, IronPort, Flickr, and Digg). During the panel, the question of market vs team in venture/angel investing came up. Jason was in the “team” camp while Reid was more in “market” camp – but these are very broad generalizations and both emphasized the importance of both in any investment they make.

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's Josh Stomel: When a user signs up, they can set their own unique URL, and make their What's the idea behind the site? Josh Josh Stomel: ResumeBucket is a portal that allows consumers to simply put their resume online, within seconds.

People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. Video chat is one of the next things and is starting to take off, since almost every computer you buy now either has a camera on a laptop or desktop. There are a lot of users, with lots of different email and instant messaging accounts, who are finding that there are too many ways to communicate with their friends and associates. Los Angeles-based Orgoo

You'll also have access to the list of attendees from all the past events you've signed up for. Referral Exchange Network is a rapidly-expanding group of business professionals who are sick and tired of attending networking meetings that suck our time and end up with dead leads. The whole point of business is to make the life you want to live possible--so why wait to start enjoying it? This is will be a continually updating post. I'll be creating additional lists for educational , chamber of commerce, etc. See also Networking & Social Media Job Search Webinars,

gid=166092799697 Self-description: "This group is for individuals who are considering starting a business and have two questions in mind “Is it for me?” Spread practical advice to individuals thinking about business startup. Keep up on what's new on the Central Coast. " Frequency/Location: Second Monday of every month, 5:00pm - 7:30pm, Mother's Tavern, 725 Higuera St. 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 feedback on events. Name: GroundUP Business Group Sites:

But if you are new to the business, how do you get started? We operate for now through a Yahoo Group. Frequency/Location: Varies / Varies Cost: Unknown Review: None, but if you happen to run across their non-yahoo website, keep in mind it's under construction. ended up arriving early and was greeted by two other attendees so we networked, of course. Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on events. Sorry for the delay, but this Update is BIG!! Follow these links to find the updates, and follow further for