Our events feature several startups chosen to 'showoff' their products & services to influential bloggers, fellow technologists, investors, the media and those interested in learning about what's hot in socal tech. Tags: recruiting events clubs Southern California job search networking business professionals social networking Los Angeles organizations SoCal business networking mixers L This is will be a continually updating post. I'll be creating additional lists for educational, chamber of commerce, etc. Organizational representatives: please contact me directly for updates, etc.

Tags: SoCal Stuff Tech Market Analysi Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe.  That’s That’s always stuck with me. I

Tags: advertising SoCal monetization publishin Media optimization is starting to become a headline buzz word in 2009 as the recession drags into the near year. Optimization is one solution to cutting costs that will virtually guarantee a return on your advertising investment if executed properly. If you are a savvy agency, advertiser or publisher and you are not using a platform or service to optimize your paid search, display

Tags: Investing SoCal politic The Civil War II has begun but this time it’s not the North versus the South. This Civil War is about money under management in the financial services industry and it’s the West Coast versus the East Coast. Let me see if I can paint the picture for you . . .

On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. Will's post talks about lack of interest in working for startups here in Southern California, saying: ..we we

WRS publishes two referral guides that members are encouraged to distribute throughout SoCal, the Yellow Book with members and pre-screened nonmembers listed, and the Blue Book, a list of members only. The events include: So Cal Sushi Social Media Roundtable LinkedIn 101 Workshop Social Media 101 for Businesses Introduction to Twitter for Professionals and Their Personal Branding Frequency/Location: Monthly / Executive Career Services 2955 Main St, Irvine, CA 92614 Cost: $25 Review: I've attended and reviewed Neal's SoCal Sushi Networking events in my list, so these look promising.

Google's new Ad Manager technology will soon enable premium ad banners to be sold directly to advertisers by publishers and when the clicks are used up on the premium ads it will revert automatically to use Google Adsense. This is a brilliant move and will further accelerate the gap between premium content and generic publishers who don't provide any unique content value. I

Tags: SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice VC Industr I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms.  My My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I [...] ...Tags:

Tags: SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice VC Industr I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms.  My My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I hope benefit the Southern California technology ecosystem.

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