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Renewable Energy and the Smarter Grid: Opportunities for the Entrepreneur

SoCal Tech Calendar

In 2010, investors poured $3.7 As utilities roll out new meters and smarter equipment on the grid, there are hundreds of companies looking to integrate exciting new technologies and platforms that promise monetary and environmental savings for both consumers and utilities.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

socalTECH

As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. Starting in 2010, we started focusing on that. However, that''s who we were in 2002, and stopped being in 2010. Who we are today, is an ad technology company.

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Enplug: Bringing Social Media To A Display Near You

socalTECH

Nanxi Liu: In 2010, an industry report came out that predicted that digital signage was going to be a $4 billion market in 2014. We looked at our competitors, and we saw that one was a well known, Fortune 500 company, which is selling media players that connect with displays. Our software is an open platform. That''s ridiculous.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

Fortunately the Web doesn’t stand still and a great deal of research and development continues to go into evolving the mechanics of today’s online social universe. The Social Web Challenges of 2010: A List What are the challenges with the social Web today? Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Interview with John Maffei, Xfire, On 17 Million Users, Plans

socalTECH

Like all good players, they figured out they needed more tools to help them out, so they started out a business, and built out a very robust platform for tournaments for Counterstrike and other games. Fortunately for us, we've brought that credibility to the table. How did that group come together?

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

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Could we really build a generalize platform and assemble the data in a cost effective way? We’re also looking at how we could extend our platform into other areas. We think there are a number of very large opportunities we can pursue using our platform to bring more order to the internet.”. It clearly is not fame or fortune.

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