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How Serviz Plans To Conquer The Home Services Industry

socalTECH

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. And many of the ones that do want to do startups are plotting their one YCombinator company.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). photo credit to Brian Solis].

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Vator Makes A Splash In LA!

Tech Zulu Event

The evening gathering brings together high-profile, successful tech entrepreneurs sharing their lessons and advice alongside promising startups showcasing their innovative ideas. If have a company and are interested in being part of this event there is still time for you to enter the competition. You still have 2 days left!

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Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls)

Eric Greenspan

The focus of this post is Commission Junction, as we are just about to get started with them. I remember when they started in a building I once thought to lease for my 2nd company Push. To generate phone traffic, we tried ReachLocal. It didn’t work for us, but we are very excited to get started with Ring Revenue.