I am frequently asked by entrepreneurs on how to find the right angel or VC backers for their companies, and am finding there are three areas where I constantly get questions — but have few answers — are computer games, films, and content. It appears that here in the Southern California area, there are plenty [...]
I had some more mapping fun this afternoon, using our venture database data to draw a few informative maps: one, of Palo Alto, and in particular around Sand Hill Road (right off the Stanford campus); the other, of West Los Angeles. (Little known fact: we also have all recent Silicon Valley venture deals, and venture [...]
Twitter is down much Do not like the whale or bird Why use it anymore? Where oh are the tweets I have so carefully typed Lost forever now What a company Can get funding when broken No business model? Not a software whiz? You can come and work for us No need at Twitter There’s [...]
We’d like to welcome the newest sponsor of Rustic Canyon Partners, the newest sponsor of socalTECH.com. Rustic Canyon Partners is one of the largest venture capital firms based in Southern California, and also has offices in Silicon Valley and Seattle. The firm is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in what it describes [...]
Our anonymous commentator, “Uncle Saul” has contributed a new article to our Insights & Opinions section, entitled Roping In The Legal Eagles. “Uncle Saul” gives us the lowdown on working with an attorney with your startup. Johnnie Cochran was an effective, albeit smarmy, defense lawyer who would say or do anything to defend his clients [...]
In more proof the Internet is collapsing the world, here’s an interesting item on the Orange County Register outsourcing layout/editing to a New Delhi, India company. Add that to the list of easily outsourced professions: software engineers, Hollywood writers, radiologists, and investment bankers.
The AeA, the high tech industry association formerly known as the American Electronics Association, released their annual Cybercities numbers today, which tries to count the number of high tech workers in different cities. The report is always interesting as a look at how big an area is or isn’t in the high tech industry. However, [...]
The Technology Council of Southern California has just kicked off a blogging effort, the latest in the number of organizations who have launched their own blog site, with their Technology Council of Southern California Blog. Scott Fox, author of “Internet Riches” and a board member of the council, is heading up the blog effort. The [...]
It seems like at trendy day to add mapping features to find startups. We’ve been mapping out all the recent venture funding in Southern California since almost the advent of open Internet map services, but, we thought it would be fund to go ahead and extend that a bit to find neighboring companies in our [...]
We’ve just posted an article in our Insights & Opinions section from Brian Ring, from Ernst & Young, about Seven secrets to entrepreneurial success. Our Insights & Opinions section is where we feature voices from the community about some aspect of the high tech industry. If you’re interested in contributing, please send me an email. [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
