There’s been a lot of attention given this week to a new map being generated by Represent.LA, trying to map out the Los Angeles technology ecosystem. They’ve done a good job, but (given their sources of information) wanted to point out that it doesn’t capture all of the activity here, and that our technology industry [...]
Investors Business Daily: Los Angeles is once again seen as a rising tech center say local executives: …the Silicon Valley shuttle might be slowing. Many tech execs in L.A. say their city is again burbling with entrepreneurial action that just might develop into a solid technology hub.
In what looks to be an unusually long article for VentureBeat, the online news site posted a lengthly, five-piece article on the Los Angeles tech industry today, entitled Full of hustle, Los Angeles tech takes on Silicon Valley. Although readers of socalTECH will not find any of the information new, it’s good to see another [...]
The TechAmerica Cybercities report, released yesterday, points out what is probably the key difference between the Bay Area and Southern California: the density of high tech employment. In the report — which, if you add up the numbers, actually finds we have more high tech jobs down here than up north, 400,800 across Los Angeles/San [...]
Interesting opinion article in the San Jose Mercury News today, about how Los Angeles is seriously challenging the Bay Area in the clean technology industry: In this month’s election, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs successfully defended our state’s clean economy from Proposition 23, the oil-backed attempt to suspend California’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act. However, this is [...]
Things must be heating up here in the job market, as today (for the first time in a very, very long time) I got two different people (!) asking me about finding a CFO. So, add CFO to the list of folks with increasing demand in the Southern California high tech job market.
I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background [...]
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 [...]
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.
