Today, two Southern California firms showed up on the firm’s top 10 list of companies having increases in unique visitors : JibJab and Buzznet. JibJab, the Santa Monica-based firm which runs an online content site focused on comedy and humor content, showed up as number two in the biggest increase in uniques for December; the firm went from 1.7M MORE >>

Evening guests and judges arrived including Scott Sangster (President of LA Tech Coast Angels ), Farhad Mohit (Founder of BizRate/Shopzilla and Gri.pe ) and David Carter (Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, advisor at UCLA/USC/Chapman). What a weekend! With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after. Dan Gould. MORE >>

Million Dollar Ouch January 16, 2008 This is making the blog rounds today: Dreamhost, a Los Angeles-based web hosting company, accidentially overcharged its customers to the tune of $7.5M , due to a billing error. Disclaimer: this blog page–but not our main site–happens to be hosted on Dreamhost. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com. MORE >>

February 7, 2008 I’ve noticed some speculation lately across the web about how the proposed acquisition of Yahoo might have an affect on possible exit opportunities for startups, how startups might want to raise more to live longer because of a perceived reduction in exit opportunities, and so on. startup rich. startups, either. MORE >>

For example, “we’re a better version of MySpace,&# or “we’re developing a cooler YouTube,&# or “we’ve got a better designed version of eBay,&# or — the most recent — “we’ve got a cool addition to Facebook.&# In other words, people who are going “zig&# when others are going “zag.&# MORE >>