Amazon Webservices is hosting a The Start-Up Project event in Santa Monica on October 23rd, 2-7pm. Amazon Web Services is holding several half-day events, The Start-Up Project in start-up "hot spots" around the country. Tags: santa monica amazo Amazon Web Services provides entrepreneurs with the ability to scale their business with access to Amazon's robust infrastructure and technological resources via services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Utilizing

Very busy on a couple interesting start-ups. in Santa Monica last Friday. in Santa Monica - They’re hiring! I've been remiss in posting to this blog. More on them in a couple months. In any case, I went by Lunch 2.0

As a local start up advisor and VC, he had no shortage of friends in Los Angeles.  He was in santa monica today and heard about the plane crash at the airport. Tags: santa monica Martin Schaedel Peopl   Martin Schaedel’s  final tweet. I didn’t know Martin,

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

Image licensing startup  GumGum has secured an additional 2.6 Tags: News funding gumgum mike jones santa monic Million in funding led by GRP Partners. The service, which offers high quality images for publishers, stands to reinvent the image license model with an innovative offering. Instead of paying the usual ridiculous image costs, publishers can pay under an affordable CPM model or with a free ad supported option.

Neurotictrepenuer Johanthan Harris is leaving Tesla powered startup Mahalo . What we do know is that he turned in a resignation letter and Jason quickly tore it up in front of the entire staff. Tags: mahalo santa monica People jonathan harri Citing irreconcilable bulldogs, he leaves behind a great legacy on Colorado Blvd. Part of the original pool house group, he ends his role as Director of Sarcasm some time in the next 2 weeks. 

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on the “Building an Online Brand”.  TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT, CLICK HERE The event is free and is followed by a reception and mixer at the Docstoc Offices in Santa Monica by the 3rd Street Promenade. Confirmation will be required or your spot will be given up for our waiting list. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about what it takes to build and grow an online brand that’s meant to last. We are joined this month by Sean Moriarty , the former CEO of TicketMaster. 

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

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.

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.