So, Serena, our EVP of Social Media who will be out of town and cannot attend the event on Monday, said that she heard through her socalTECH  subscription, that they were giving away a few tickets.  Nothing much, just let socalTECH know why you like them in an email and they will draw a winner.  For those of you who don’t know socalTECH, explaining why you like them couldn’t Last week my team was reviewing our upcoming event calendar and the subject of PerfectBusiness.com’s “ Perfect Pitch 2009 ” event came up.  This event is perfect for us –

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Tags: survey technology executives socaltech economy jobs hirin Local technology executives seem to be optimistic going into the new year, believing the worst of the economic decline has passed, and are also looking at hiring this year, according to the latest socalTECH.com Industry Survey . The non-scientific survey was a shift from the fairly negative outlook from last year's survey.

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OnHollywood socalTECH is proud to be an affiliate partner of the upcoming OnHollywood event, where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. 50% registration discount for friends of socalTECH. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. (www.socalip.com) Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. They include:

According to numbers derived from socalTECH's venture database, there was $717.96M invested in Southern California in the first quarter, up from only $465M in Q4 of 2008. socalTECH tracks day-to-day venture capital activity in the Southern California region, and uses venture data disclosed by companies announcing funding; self-reported by both technology companies and venture firms; as well as regulatory filings and other sources. However, Southern California Venture capital totals were up slightly in Q1 of this year from last quarter, to around $718M in deals, according to an analysis of socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database .