Friday reading: a great essay by GRP’s Mark Suster on Why You Should Start a Company in Los Angeles (in Fast Company).
The annual Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch for Los Angeles is coming up next week, on Wednesday, and I’ll be moderating a panel during the event. The event–if you haven’t attended before–lets a group of 12 early stage companies pitch their companies to the audience. The pitch has to fit into 90 seconds, and is [...]
Katie Fehrenbacher at Earth2Tech has an interview with one of the most stealthy venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area, David Gelbaum of the Quercus Trust. Quercus–which very few people seem to realize is based in Los Angeles–is one of the most active investors in the clean technology area, but also one of the most [...]
For those who didn’t see it, Andrew Warner over at Mixergy did a great job getting in front of disgraced TechCrunch writer Daniel Brusilovsky, who was publicly fired by Michael Arrington for allegedly accepting a laptop (or two) in exchange for writing about a company for the popular tech blog. Andrew gets Daniel’s side of [...]
For those who haven’t logged into the main site or story pages lately (particularly, RSS readers and Twitter followers), socalTECH is in the midst of updating our site to a new web page design. So far, just the home page and story pages are updated, but we did want to let you know in case [...]
Venture capital rating site TheFunded released their 2009 “most loved VCs” list via TechCrunch Tuesday — with a surprise, in that they actually had some Southern California venture capitalists ranked on the list. The SoCal folks I noticed on the list: 2. Mark Suster, Partner at GRP Partners, rated 4.8571 by 7 CEOs 23. Mark [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
