Today is the anniversary of the first, ever email message sent, by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock and graduate student Charley Klein–on October 29, 1969, at 10:30 PM. Kleinrock and Klein were sending the first email to the Stanford Research Institute.
Deloitte has announced its Deloitte Technology Fast 500, its annual ranking of the fastest growing firms in the nation in the technology industry. The list is based on the five year growth rates for firms (based this year on 2005 to 2009). There were 17 companies from Southern California this year. We covered the awards [...]
An interesting article this week from Reuters, talking about how Venture capitalists set sights on Hollywood, implying that venture capitalists are flocking to fund entertainment-related startups in Los Angeles. Although the venture numbers are correct (yes, venture funding is up nicely in Los Angeles), the conclusion–that those investments are in entertainment-related companies, is, I believe, [...]
It looks to be technology-entrepreneur-startup book tour week in Los Angeles, as at least two different events are lined up this week to promote books from well known technology entrepreneurs. On Thursday (tomorrow), Brad Feld and David Cohen of TechStars are on tour promoting their new book Do More Faster, a book talking about lots [...]
An interesting comment by Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital yesterday, claiming that all of the innovation in Silicon Valley can be funded to the tune of just $400 million a year. To put that into perspective, we recently tallied Q3 investments in Southern California at about $1 billion. $400 million is a fraction of the [...]
In what is a twist to the typical startups-pitch-VC events, tonight’s Meet the VC event tonight by the Los Angeles Venture Association in Santa Monica has, instead of startup pitches, local venture capitalists pitching startups about their firms. In the event, just about every local venture capital firm will talk about what they are about [...]
This week, the results of an architecture competition to envision what the Los Angeles Clean Technology Corridor might look like was announced. While–as beautiful as the graphics and architecture from the competition might be–what really counts, are concrete efforts to make it easy to start, maintain, and grow clean technology related businesses. Clean technology businesses [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
