Add another local entrepreneur to the blogging crowd: Eric David Greenspan, founder of MakeItWork, the ubiquitous red in-home computer services company, has just started a blog. His first major post? Why flip flops are required at his company (and why they give back massages on Mondays…)
There’s a nice chart going around today from Billshrink, the startup now headed by Peter Pham, showing the cost of iPhone ownership compared with other smart phones. In all cases, all I can say is: ouch. (Even though Peter is now head of a Silicon Valley company, we’ll call him a So-Cal native, given his [...]
The Silicon Alley Insider has weighed in on its list of “50+ most valuable startups“, and suprisingly, they didn’t neglect Southern California. Facebook was tops, but local companies highlighted in the list: 4. NewEgg (est worth $3.2B) – City of Industry 10. Demand Media ($1.3B) – Santa Monica 16. Oversee.net ($1B) – Los Angeles 23. [...]
A couple of mid week links: Demand Media’s IPO Ambitions (Vator TV) The New Rules of Angel Investing (New York Times) Maverick Angels Heads To Milan (Pehub)
A bit late, but yes, we did award a winner of the Perfect Pitch ticket for earlier this week, Joey Flores of Startup Army. Hope you enjoyed the conference!
Earlier this month, Tech Coast Angels founder Luis Villalobos passed away. His memorial has now been set (info below): You are cordially invited to attend the Luis Villalobos Celebration of Life November 11th, 2009 5:00pm – 8:00pm Orange County Wine & Food Center 1570 Scenic Avenue Costa Mesa, CA 92626 (map) Please RSVP as soon as [...]
In case anyone was wondering, yes, our blog site (but not the rest of our service) was off in the Ether today. (The ISP we use for our blog site–completely separate from our main services–moved our IP address, and it took awhile for DNS to propagate). We’re back…
Quick updates for Wednesday: Andy Wilson of Momentum Ventures responds to our Insights & Opinions piece by Wil Schroter of AffordIt, where Wil says there is indeed money out there to invest, saying no, it’s really a nuclear winter out there. Keiretsu Forum says it is dropping fees for “real startups”, but not because of [...]
A few months ago, there was a week or two of tech-blog obsession with new “url shortening” services — i.e. tinyurl, bit.ly, etc. I told a few people (who were cooking up their own grand schemes of URL shortening domination, and thinking about VC funding) how trivial this was, software-wise, and how there’s really no [...]
Perusing the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list for this year — the ranking of the fastest growing companies in North America, based on the last five years of revenue–it’s quite surprising to note the sheer number of Southern California firms listed. Deloitte, which ranks these every year (disclaimer: Deloitte recently became a sponsor of socalTECH, [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
