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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Blogging is a hobby for me and I love being able to learn about all of the technologies from a practitioners perspective rather than the Ivory Tower. The Web. Open, democratic, leveling, freeing information from closed networks. The wisdom of the crowds. Or so it seems. Ah, the joys of youthful naivete. And then I had another bubble burst.
 
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Two local area firms have made a list of firms that the World Economic Forum feels are using technology to address society's problems. Also on the list was Ion Torrent , the firm acquired on August 17th by Carlsbad-based Life Technologies. Ion Torrent develops semiconductor-based, DNA sequencing technology.
 
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Los Angeles-based OpenX , the developer of ad serving technology, said late last night that it is launched a new effort in Japan called OpenX Market Japan. OpenX said it has entered into a multi-year partnership with cyber communications inc. cci), a media representative company owned by Dentsu, to launch the effort. READ MORE>>.
 

The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community

In my post, Technology Roles in Startups , I described some of the different ways I engage with startup companies such as CTO Founder , CTO , Part-Time CTO , Acting CTO , Consultant, Advisor and Advisory Board Member. Before engaging a Technology Advisor for the purpose of accessing their network – make sure it’s the right network.
Fascinating article by Andrew McAfee - Technology Beats a Full House - discusses how variation in performance spread decreases over time as systems become optimized. He shows that the spreads in IT heavy industries has greater variation over the past decade. winners were increasingly separated from losers
I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. It depends on the business, people, technologies, etc. Each situation is just a bit different.
This is purely anecdotal, but it seems like a lot of companies are hiring technology talent here in Southern California. ve recently seen several tweets from software development companies looking for talent. And I’ve heard from several people looking for Startup Software Developers.
He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. Besides Tony Karrer for technology, who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles? quot; Kurt has a great background in sales and marketing.
Is your business’s success going to be based on execution or technology? Back in the dot-com days, competitive advantage was largely based on technology development. It’s probably not the technology. Technology remains a competitive advantage in many areas: life science, nanotech, renewable energy. Technology.
Here is the list of interesting technology-related events in Los Angeles for the month of April: Digital LA – Digital Drinks @ La Vida – 4/6/2010 (Tuesday). Tags: Jobs Networking Startups Technology events los angeles los angeles networking networking events technology networking 7-10pm Hollywood. 7pm Location TBD.
Pasadena-based X1 Technologies, a developer of desktop and enterprise search software, is setting its sights on the eDiscovery market, saying this morning that it has created a new offering specifically aimed at the eDiscovery market. X1 Technologies is backed by Idealab and US Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.
Great post today on ReadWriteWeb: Technology is Great, but Are We Forgetting To Live? Tags: Technology It may be “high tech heresy&# to question the value of aways and always being connected, but it seems to me that it’s worth hitting “pause&# sometimes to get some perspective on the world around you.
San Diego-based Maxwell Technologies reported Tuesday that it has sold approximately $17.6M Tags: maxwell technologies public offering in a common stock offering, underwritten by Roth Capital Partners.