Merry Christmas! As you might expect, posting will be light on both the blog and news site until the new year. We’ll be posting breaking items as appropriate. We hope you’re having a great holiday with your family and friends!
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John Greathouse, who is a venture partner at Rincon Venture Partners and has had great success with his involvement at Citrix Online/Expertcity, Computer Motion, Callwave, etc.–has been regularly providing us great articles giving advice to startups and entrepreneurs. His latest is a very in-depth, helpful article on how to compensate business advisors. Properly setting up [...]
I’ve mentioned this a few times in the last few weeks, but — despite what you see about layoffs and the economy — there seems to be a great hunger for employees at many local Southern California companies. Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media (Richard’s best known as having been the Chairman of MySpace) said today [...]
Michael Arrington posted an interesting post today on TechCrunch, saying that the publication will no longer honor embargoes. Embargoes — which are used by PR agencies to provide an early look at news releases to editors and writers — are typically used so that news outlets have a chance to research their stories further, review [...]
The annual VC Christmas video greeting card trend — which seems to be a point of pride in Silicon Valley — oddly, hasn’t made it to Southern California, the land of Internet content startups and Hollywood. The one making the rounds right now? This one from First Round Capital, an takeoff of the popular YouTube [...]
Over the weekend, I put up our family’s usual (modest) display of a Christmas lights — swapping out our old lights for some new LED ones. I just calculated it and it’s a mere 26.4W for our display this year, versus 438W last year for about the same thing. That’s less than 6 percent of [...]
Not many folks reading this blog probably care (except those storage folks lurking), but goodbye to TechTarget’s Storage Magazine. Note to writers: get used to being “online only”–the days of being in print are ending rapidly…
Still worried about your job in this economy? Don’t worry, if you’re a good software engineer or software manager. I mentioned this before, but it seems like good technical folks are in high demand here — even in this economy, where things have shifted into layoff mode. I am still hearing from recruiters having a [...]
There was a good front page article in the LA Times yesterday on the effort to develop mobile shelters for the homeless by a local foundation — the EDAR Foundation — which has some interesting ties to Southern California’s technology community. EDAR has developed a mobile shelter to replace the cardboard box for the homeless, [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
