Not too many people I talk to realize that online e-commerce firm NewEgg is one of Southern California’s own, based in the City of Industry. Well, NewEgg is now also the latest IPO filing in Southern California, saying today in a filing with the SEC that it is looking to raise up to $175M in [...]
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Having lived both here in Southern California as well as in Palo Alto and the heart of Silicon Valley, I have a story I like to tell people about what I sometimes think of as the “Starbucks Effect” and how it exists in places like Palo Alto (and I’d argue, places like Boulder and Seattle) [...]
Mark Suster, a venture capitalist at GRP, has been (very) busy providing useful information and advice to entrepreneurs in his blog, Both Sides of the Table recently, and comments today on how to best gain the interest of an angel. Among the many tidbits of advice he gives, is that a company needs to not [...]
One of the interesting things about Inc. Magazine’s “Inc 500″ list is it helps to identify all of those big, private companies — who, in another world, might have been public. It’s interesting to note the large number of Southern California firms with very big revenue numbers who are private — in fact, if you [...]
The folks at the upcoming Twiistup technology conference are continuing–in their own way–to try to bridge the entertainment and technology scene in Los Angeles, telling folks today that celebrity Brooke Burke (Dancing with the Stars/Wild On E!, etc.) will be one of the conference’s speakers. (Missing from their promo: Brooke’s partner at ModernMom.com, Lisa Rosenblatt, [...]
This is a bit off topic, but for the geeks in the room, it’s worth following the folks over at iSuppli (in El Segundo) — turned into an analyst firm some time ago, and is now regularly tearing apart new electronic items and figuring out how much they cost, what components they use, etc. Their [...]
Twiistup, the Los Angeles networking and technology showcase event, just announced that Brad Feld — a widely followed venture capitalist from the Foundry Group — and David Sacks, founder of Geni/Yammer and formerly COO of PayPal, will be speaking at the event.
SodaHead said last night that the firm is switching from its Q&A focus to become a “social newspaper” site. I asked Jason Feffer, the firm’s CEO, three quick questions about the switch, and thought I’d share it here: Why the switch to the new “social newspaper” idea? SodaHead.com evolved into the best place on the [...]
In all the effort that governments go to promote their cities and states as friendly for business, the one item which seems to get overlooked: quality of life. I was pondering this while reading the saga of New Enterprise Associates, one of the more well known VCs, which is pulling its offices out of Baltimore [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
