Most of the people who are involved in the technology and venture capital industry spent a lot of times at conferences. Usually, things are fairly light during the summer, but it looks like conference season is just around the bend. Just glancing at our comprehensive calendar of local, Southern California events and conferences, it looks [...]
Om Malik is reporting today that Helio is on the brink of some job cuts, after Earthlink said it would cut 900 people (and much more) earlier this week. So far, the track record of MVNOs here in Los Angeles isn’t looking so good.
Flash – Substance Who you know – What you know Passive – Active Banner ads – Text ads Branding – Word of Mouth MySpace profile – LinkedIn profile Planning – Execution Web visitors – Web revenues Talking – Doing Beta users – Paid customers Building – Selling Which side are you on? And which side [...]
I recently emailed out information about the Technology Council’s upcoming VentureNet event (www.venturenet.org), which is a great opportunity to get exposure for your company to venture capitalists, angel investors, and others in the community. Interestingly enough, one of the companies that I’d provided with information about the event treated my email with quite a bit [...]
There’s been an ongoing debate both on and off the net, on whether bloggers are journalists. Given the debate about how to classify the blog world, I read with interest this recent post by a venture capitalist, Rick Segal, complaining about a pitch he received from a Silicon Valley PR firm. Rick complains that the [...]
Mark Cuban–no stranger to controversy, on and off the net–thinks the Internet is dead… and VC blogger Fred Wilson does not.
I missed this last week when I was on vacation, but thought it was interesting — Bill Stenstrud, formerly of San Diego venture capital firm Enterprise Partners, is selling his house for $76M. At those prices, Stenstrud could pull a variation of flipping your house to fund your startup to start a new VC fund [...]
Inc. Magazine has just rolled out their annual list of fastest growing companies, the Inc. 500–though it’s now the Inc. 5000–and browsing through the list, here are the top companies in our area in the list. 5. Genoptix, Carlsbad 10. HydraMedia, Beverly Hills 17. Bridgepoint Education, San Diego 19. Vizio, Irvine 51. Eyeonics, Aliso Viejo [...]
I’ve often heard said that venture capitalists will only invest companies within driving distances of their offices… Which is not always true. However, spurred on by this post by Okapi VC’s Marc Averitt on the places he hangs out in Orange County, I’ve ported our venture capital map to Google’s “My Maps”. To get to [...]
It seems that Southern California has suddenly become the center of the electric/hybrid car craze, with two fundings this week of electric car startups. SoCal has long been the center of automobile design industry (BMW, Ford, Toyota, General Motors , Volkswagen, and other automobile manufacturers all have design centers in the Los Angeles area), but [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
