31 Articles match "Santa Monica","SoCal"

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.  But Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Launchpad LA SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice Startup Advic Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All
 
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Check out their site for job search tips, 'What is an unconference', and audio interviews. Summary Follow these links to find the updates, and follow further for the full listings. 3 New and 5 Updates in SoCal Networking Event Organizations . No updates for SoCal Educational Networking & Job Search Organizations . 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, March 2, 2010
Jason Nazar, CEO of Docstoc–and organizer of the Startups Uncensored series of events in Santa Monica for entrepreneurs–has a new project up his sleeve: giving away money (or help, or other assistance) to charities or other worthy causes for every day, the next 30 days. That kind of effort–which is related to a number of similar efforts in the Bay Area and elsewhere, and which in Colorado was started by venture capitalist Brad Feld — would be great to see here in SoCal. ...Tags: Jason says: I
 

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in Santa Monica last Friday. But, what's interesting is that the old SoCal events hosted by folks like the Technology Council seem to be struggling for attendees, while you get 250 to a networking only event during the middle of the day. in Santa Monica - They’re hiring! I've been remiss in posting to this blog. Very busy on a couple interesting start-ups.
When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the times. The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009
Thursday, January 28, 2010 -- Grow Your Network in 2010 at a Santa Monica Hot Spot. SoCal AMA. This sizzling event is appropriately being held at the red hot WOKCANO in Santa Monica. The economy is starting to heat up. The job market is beginning to thaw. What better way to turn up the temperature on your career or business
DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.  But Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Launchpad LA SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice Startup Advic Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All
Most of these companies bootstrapped themselves and bypassed local SoCal VC firms raising larger rounds with Silicon Valley based mega VC fund after achieving significant revenue growth. See this list of 13 companies and build your own on Lunch.com Demandmedia.com - 1333 Second Street, Suite 100 Santa Monica CA 90401 - Owns and operates 1) a network of 65 destination websites 2) a content and social media marketplace connecting content creators, users and publishers on a mass scale and 3) the second largest domain name registrar.
DEMO disclosed Friday that San Diego-based Avaak , Goleta-based Citrix Online , Huntington Beach-based HowSimple , San Diego's Qualcomm MEMS Technologies , and Santa Monica-based Vokle are among the list of firms who will be presenting at the event. A number of Southern California firms are on the list for DEMO 09, the technology conference which has been one of the traditional launching ground for new products and startup firms. DEMO 09 is being held March 1-3 in Palm Desert. ...Tags:
But given that a home in Palo Alto or Santa Monica will set you back $2 million it’s hardly riding off into the sunset. I always say, “Dude (I live in SoCal now!) – it’s time to EARN.  This is part of my Startup Advice series I often have career discussions with entrepreneurs
and report them to city hall for quick resolution; an opportunity for government to use technology to save money and improve accountability to those they govern; and a positive, collaborative platform for real action. We were in the finals at TechCrunch50 this year and are waking up the neighborhood with our mobile application. I'm also still busy working with Baron Miller to produce MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) , which is a curated, invite only conversation we produce in SoCal. We have regular monthly meetings in Westlake Village, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, & Newport Beach.
Despite being mostly ignored in the stimulus, the suppliers for several So-Cal electric and hybrid car firms--including Ener1, which provides the batteries for Irvine-based Fisker Automotive , and UQM Technologies, the propulsion systems provider for Santa Monica-based CODA Automotive --did gain substantial funds from the grants. ...Tags: Southern California was for the most part passed up on the Department of Energy's $2.4 billion in awards, announced today, for stimulating the electric battery industry in the U.S.,
Despite being mostly ignored in the stimulus, the suppliers for several So-Cal electric and hybrid car firms--including Ener1, which provides the batteries for Irvine-based Fisker Automotive , and UQM Technologies, the propulsion systems provider for Santa Monica-based CODA Automotive --did gain substantial funds from the grants. ...Tags: Southern California was for the most part passed up on the Department of Energy's $2.4 billion in awards, announced today, for stimulating the electric battery industry in the U.S.,