I’m often surprised by people I run into, who are very familiar with socalTECH — either through this blog, through the online news site, or our emails. But, I’m consistently surprised when people are unaware of the many different aspects of what we offer. For example, someone might know about the blog, but not about [...]
Tony Perkins (who founded Red Herring Magazine and now heads AlwaysOn) gave a great keynote at the Technology Council’s annual Technology Awards in Los Angeles last night, talking about how he got the idea for his first magazine (Upside) — from the late William F. Buckley, in the back of a limousine, while working for [...]
William Quigley, a venture capitalist at Clearstone Ventures, has just started up a blog, “The Quigley Report.” William is one of just a very few angel and venture capital investors in Southern California with a blog. Some recent posts: What Startups Should Do About the Recession, the Value of Angel Investors, and The One Thing [...]
Three things, as a startup, you really need to own. Forget all the talk you hear about “virtual companies” and how you can “outsource everything,” if you don’t have these, no one will take you seriously. I thought these would be self-evident, but I’ve run into a few companies recently who lacked one (or all) [...]
I’ve covered the 101 Corridor — the stretch of the 101 Freeway running roughly from the north end of Los Angeles County up to Santa Barbara — ever since I started socalTECH many years ago, and I’ve always been surprised that this area–which is heavily dominated by Amgen–has a very paltry number of biotechnology startups. [...]
The Technology Council of Southern California (formerly the Software Council of Southern California) has generously passed on a code for a great discount to hear Tony Perkins of AlwaysOn speak at their annual Technology Industry Awards next week. The event is being held at the Millenium Biltmore in Los Angeles, February 28th, from 6-9pm. Tony, [...]
The Los Angeles Business Journal’s Booyeon Lee writes on the newspaper’s “Who’s Who of Banking” in their latest issue, with a focus on the “movers and shakers” who are helping to shape the Los Angeles high tech industry. Good quotes from, and profiles of Randy Churchill at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Greg Martin at Redpoint Ventures, Jim Armstrong [...]
Brian Deagon of Investor’s Business Daily has two good pieces published today on the growth of the technology industry on LA’s west side, along with an overall piece on the surge in informal networking groups (Lunch 2.0, TwiistUp, etc.) in the area.
There was a good interview with Idealab’s Bill Gross on NPR yesterday. Interview starts around 4/5ths through the podcast version. (I talked with Bill Gross last year in an interview here…)
There’s been a lot of startups I’ve seen lately, focused on creating standalone companies around Facebook. The rush to create applications for Facebook reminds me a lot of the plug-in market. For those who aren’t familiar with plug-ins, those are the various software widgets that plug into larger applications — for example, in the photo [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
