On the theme of Southern California firms who are huge in their industries, but which Silicon Valley has no clue about, add Vizio. Good article from PEhub on how founder William Wang built the firm using just $600K in friends and family funding, into a $2.5 billion leader selling LCD TVs. (PeHub article).
Silicon Valley has (just) noticed that Green Dot had an IPO–oh, just three months later– and beat the pants off of any number of other IPOs this year. Sequoia’s Michael Moritz apparently has been talking about the success of Green Dot up in the valley: Green Dot: The $2 Billion IPO You’ve Never Heard Of [...]
Though most folks reading the blog side of things here are using RSS/Twitter/etc. to monitor our news, I just wanted to put out a quick note to remind folks getting our email version to make sure to add our email address (things from @socaltech.com) to their white list — it also helps to contact your [...]
Well, the Los Angeles technology blog scene has just gotten a (lot) quieter, as Sean and Laurie Percival say they are shutting down their site, Lalawag. As something far more social and a lot less serious than socalTECH, it was always fun to see Sean, Laurie, and others post their opinions on various technology topics, [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
