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Los Angeles – Muni WiFi?

September 28, 2007

The City of Los Angeles is looking to deploy Wi-Fi citywide, as part of a muni Wi-Fi project, and as part of the effort have been soliciting opinions on the idea. Conchetta Fabares at the Digital Coast Roundtable forwarded me this and I thought I’d pass it along: Under the leadership of Mayor Villaraigosa and [...]

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Passes to VentureNet!

September 26, 2007

For the entrepreneurs and others out there who might be interested, I have a number of passes to the Technology Council’s great venture capital event, VentureNet, that I am giving away. VentureNet is being held on October 5th, and is a great opportunity to rub elbows with venture capitalists, angel investors, and other fellow entrepreneurs–and [...]

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Anatomy of a Startup Failure

September 25, 2007

All too often, the venture capitalists and startups gloss over the “other” side of the startup successes, which is the sometimes more frequent failures of new business ventures. It’s all too rare when someone looks at — and tries to learn from — a startup failure. So, it’s interesting to see the latest podcast from [...]

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ValueClick: AOL purchase rumor

September 25, 2007

ValueClick saw some some action in the markets today, on rumors that the firm may be acquired by AOL. ValueClick has been subject to rumors of an M&A since May, after a slew of Internet advertising related acquisitions in the industry.

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Entrepreneurs and ADD

September 24, 2007

Toni DasGupta, a local angel investor at the Tech Coast Angels, has an interesting post asking whether entepreneurs have ADD.

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Demo names companies

September 21, 2007

The popular Demo launch conference is kicking off next week in San Diego, and they’ve just named the companies which will be presenting. Among the local companies there are Agoura Hills-based Clipblast; Hollywood’s FastCall411; Carlsbad-based nCursion; and Los Angeles-based PeopleJam.

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New article in the startup section: Mergers and Acquisitions

September 18, 2007

We’ve just posted a new article in our startup section, where we are featuring contributed articles from experts on various topics of interest to entrepreneurs. The article, Selling a Business: Ten Tips For Enterpreneurs,  comes from Scott Edward Walker, a corporate lawyer located in Los Angeles. Hopefully these articles are useful. In case you missed [...]

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SoCal startups at TechCrunch40

September 17, 2007

Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch40 conference is happening today up in San Francisco, here’s the local startups I’ve seen so far on the list: mEgo (Los Angeles, social networking) DocStoc (Los Angeles, document sharing) App2You (La Jolla, hosted software) (Updated) Metaplace, aka Areae (San Diego, massively multiplayer software) (Updated) Orgoo (Los Angeles, mobile webmail) Elsewhere on the [...]

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VC in the OC

September 14, 2007

For those of you who missed the VC in the OC event Wednesday, Marc Averitt at Okapi VC just posted the slides from NVCA’s Mark Heeson, which details some of the VC activity here.

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Obama and LinkedIn

September 12, 2007

Anyone who has been using the LinkedIn social networking service (which tends to be people in the venture capital/high tech/business area) might have noticed that Presidential candidate Barack Obama just posted a question to the Small Business section. Just for fun, I checked my own network to see if anyone other candidates were anywhere near [...]

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