I usually avoid repeating infographics, but thought this one was a great illustration of Google+ and Google’s strategy for owning the world (at the expense of everyone else). Up until Google+ and the company force feeding it into everything, I had been a huge Google fan. I’m really not sure anymore. What happened to “don’t [...]
Well, it’s not just those of us in Southern California facing a tech accelerator “epidemic” — love the headline on this article over at the folks covering New York for Betabeat: The Tech Accelerator Epidemic Has Hit New Jersey
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If you’ve been in the local startup community for any time, particularly on the Westside LA or Santa Monica area, you might have run into Startups Uncensored, the series of events organized by Jason Nazar to help out other entrepreneurs figure out how to make their companies successful. However, you might also have found that [...]
Here’s an interesting one for Friday: Elon Musk, who co-founded PayPal, and has taken that fortune (literally) to new heights with Tesla Motors and SpaceX, actually spends as much time in Southern California than he does in Silicon Valley (according to Mashable). It’s actually very interesting, if you talk with folks in Southern California, they’re [...]
Okay, we are crying uncle. We have added back the “Google+” button on our news posts. Anyone who wants to go back and +1 all the articles on their favorite companies, please do. (Apparently, Google’s ranking algorithms are now heavily weighting search relevancy towards pages which have been +1′d and shared — and is ignoring [...]
I’m not sure if the folks over at Microsoft missed April Fool’s, were in a “let’s make a viral video” mood, or what, but they just announced a program to promote the use of Kinect for Xbox 360 in senior citizen’s centers around Los Angeles. In the best line ever, the video assets for the [...]
Okay, what we thought was our complete guide to accelerators and incubators is not quite so complete now, with two more to add: Frost Ventures (OC), and io/LA (Hollywood) in the last couple of weeks. We’ll be updating that list soon. Any other accelerators/incubators/coworking spaces we’re missing? We’re contemplating moving this into our live database [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
