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Los Angeles Startup Community

SoCal CTO

LA Tech Survival Guide A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles Guide to the LA Startup Community Why You Should Start a Company in. Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in.

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Los Angeles Startup Community

SoCal CTO

LA Tech Survival Guide A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles Guide to the LA Startup Community Why You Should Start a Company in. Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in.

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Nirvanix Raises $10M, Names New CEO

socalTECH

The firm said the new round is a Series B, and comes from investors Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partnes, and Windward Ventures. The company said that current President and CEO Jim Zierick will continue to serve on its advisory council. READ MORE>>.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. I have some pretty specific thoughts on the differences between companies in the two cities, as I wrote about in my previous post A Tale of Two Tech Cities. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. It's extremely widely used.

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Venture Conference Highlights SoCal Startups

socalTECH

The conference, held at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, featured pitches by eight different companies vying for the attention--and pocketbooks--of venture capitalists. The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users. READ MORE>>