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Friday, March 12, 2010
Startups Made Simple. Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Stubbs It's time again for us to thanks all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible. Please let them know how much you appreciate their support of socalTECH! Sponsors
 
Monday, March 8, 2010
Join over 1,000 elite business leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs at the 26th Annual Business Growth Conference on Thursday, May 6, 2010 hosted by the USC Marshall School of Business Alumni Association and the Harvard Business School Association of Orange County." With your printed ticket, security at the entrance would let you past the rope and up the stairs you needed to wind your way back to the theater. Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
 
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Startups Made Simple. Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Stubbs www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors Redpoint
 

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I thought I’d expand on a post written by Ben Kuo (Venture Capital Booms in the OC) and point out while our county’s start-ups have raised ~$110M in the last week or so, we have also had our recent share of liquidity events.  Tags: OC VCs Start-Ups Venture Capital Orange Count A very big congratulations to Michael Hajeck and his team at SiliconSystems [...] ...Tags:
The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy in the Musical Instrument Business Keywords Layoffs Fund Venture Capital Events Technology Angel Mahalo Zag MySpace Geni
I love to see local start-ups succeed!!!  I thought I’d give a big shout out to Stuart, Mark, and the rest of the DATAllegro team and congratulate them on their recently announced acquisition by Microsoft.    You can see the details below. 
If you haven’t already registered for VC in the OC, get to it as tickets have been going fast and we’re on track to sell out (again) this year.  For details, and to register, visit VC in the OC.  Like last year, I will be moderating a panel and will take any questions thereof in
Tags: Networking Orange County Venture Capital Start-Ups Social Network That’s right, Mixergy’s Lunch 2.0 is back in The OC, baby!  Please join Andrew and I at Earth Media Group for lunch tomorrow.  Details and registration can be found here:
Tags: OC VCs Start-Ups Venture Capital Orange Count I have been looking at the “water sector” (broadly defined) for awhile now but haven’t seen many investments being done thus far… so I was pleased to see fellow local VC, SAIL Ventures, announce that they recently made such an investment.  In fact, I reached out to Walter Schindler and asked him to send me [...] ...Tags:
Well, January has come and gone and the year is off to a “shaky” start in case you haven’t been paying attention to what is going on in the global economy.  Tags: Networking Orange County OC VCs Venture Capital Start-Up Some are faring better…some worse.  In the end, we will eventually pull out of it as life goes on. Enough
In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers In addition to these, I'd recommend looking at: Technology Council of Southern California – Surprised John didn't mention this one.
I’m clearly biased here, but thought I’d share a recent press release from one of my portfolio companies:  RF  RF RF Nano Corp., a Newport Beach, Calif.-based based developer of carbon nanotube
Tech Coast Venture Network kicked off the new year with an engaging presentation on preparing for fundraising for startups and small business. I thought I'd go around the room and introduce some of the exciting businesses present. Meet them here: Jim Burke (safeglow.com) Phillip Gurley (natstaff.com) Stephen Silver (sproutstart.com) Tom Miller (TCVN) Raj Lahoti (onlineguru.com) and Miles Moore (advancedwarningsystems.com).