Thursday, January 28, 2010 -- Grow Your Network in 2010 at a Santa Monica Hot Spot. The job market is beginning to thaw. This sizzling event is appropriately being held at the red hot WOKCANO in Santa Monica. SoCal AMA. The economy is starting to heat up. What better way to turn up the temperature on your career or business

Google’s free “Analytics” and “Optimizer” services were the hot topics Thursday night in Santa Monica.  The were happy to host about 60 people at the Doubletree Hotel in Santa Monica for networking, dinner, and education . Some estimate The latest TCOSC event featured 2 expert speakers:  James Tipton from Google and Corey Koberg of Webshare Design (an authorized Google consulting firm). We We

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.) When I as a 41-year old living in Santa Monica with 2 young boys type “Halloween Costume” into Google it is pretty clear that there is a highly likelihood or intent by me to shop for Halloween goods.  Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named

San Diego-based Underground Elephant , a startup focused on the CPA-based, performance based advertising market, said today that it has opened up an office in Santa Monica. The firm said it is looking to tap the talent in the Los Angeles are in the affiliate ad network industry. As part of the new office, the firm said it has hired Jennifer Horwood, who the firm worked previously at another ad network, and Derek Chew, previously at Pricegrabber.com and Yahoo.

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). About a dozen CEOs discussed, among other things, how they’re dealing with the changes in what works (and doesn’t) in sales & marketing/revenue generation, the financing environment, issues with investors/expectations, and what it takes to prove value after the sale and smooth renewals. “Judging from how much the participants seemed to benefit from the exchange — including CEOs of companies that have raised tens of millions of dollars, CEOs who’ve taken

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). About a dozen CEOs discussed, among other things, how they’re dealing with the changes in what works (and doesn’t) in sales & marketing/revenue generation, the financing environment, issues with investors/expectations, and what it takes to prove value after the sale and smooth renewals. “Judging from how much the participants seemed to benefit from the exchange — including CEOs of companies that have raised tens of millions of dollars, CEOs who’ve taken

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). About a dozen CEOs discussed, among other things, how they’re dealing with the changes in what works (and doesn’t) in sales & marketing/revenue generation, the financing environment, issues with investors/expectations, and what it takes to prove value after the sale and smooth renewals. “Judging from how much the participants seemed to benefit from the exchange — including CEOs of companies that have raised tens of millions of dollars, CEOs who’ve taken

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). About a dozen CEOs discussed, among other things, how they’re dealing with the changes in what works (and doesn’t) in sales & marketing/revenue generation, the financing environment, issues with investors/expectations, and what it takes to prove value after the sale and smooth renewals. “Judging from how much the participants seemed to benefit from the exchange — including CEOs of companies that have raised tens of millions of dollars, CEOs who’ve taken

ve spent the last year running a tech company based in Santa Monica , CA and I’ve spent countless weeks in the Bay meeting with hundreds of tech founders. Greg Tseng – smartest person I’ve ever met about user viral marketing and A/B testing Is there a difference between tech startups in Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles?

Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the new startup founded by Userplane founder Michael Jones, has launched a new division, focused on search engine marketing. The firm announced the division Tuesday afternoon, saying that its new Tsavo Agency will provide search engine marketing and content monetization services for companies. search engine marketing business. The new unit comes shortly after Tsavo Media's acquisition of Better Inc, which runs the DONE! Jones said in a statement that the new division will focus primarily on text ad placement, and makes the firm's internally