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 [...]
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 [...]
There’s been a boom in startup accelerators in Southern California over the last few months, with quite a few different efforts (K5Launch, Amplify, EvoNexus, LaunchPadLA, UpstartLA, MuckerLab, StartEngine, Ventura Ventures, among others) all looking to help populate the startup world here in the area. There’s definitely no shortage of folks who want to help mentor, [...]
I get a kick out of the occasional “technology meets tattoo” stories out there — Los Angeles-based mobileStorm has been worth a few stories over the years, Boingo threw out an April Fool’s joke (which we fell for) last year, and Intel reported one a few months back. Today, we covered a tattoo from a [...]
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.
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to talk on a Los Angeles Venture Association panel on hints and tips on press relations for startups. I thought I’d expand on that topic, after I recently had the CEO of a company take issue with one of our stories, which is not unusual. What is unusual, [...]
I’m usually the one doing the interviews, which I mostly prefer. However, in an interesting twist, I was the interviewee in this Q&A from Ideamensch.They’ve also interviewed folks like Craig Newmark, Seth Godin, and Gary Vaynerchuk.
I don’t usually spend too much time on conference panels (I prefer to moderate them), but LAVA asked me to help out on a panel next month. On a completely unrelated note, it’s interesting to see how different the hours different parts of this technology community seems to keep — financiers have lots of these [...]
A few months ago, we had posted an interview with Matthias Gallica of ShareSquare, a firm developing QR code software for musicians and others. ShareSquare has been out at SXSW, and we had a few readers ask for access to the service, so we’re passing on a beta code. You can go to http://bit.ly/ShareSquare to [...]
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 [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
