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Events and Networking in Los Angeles

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. You know what I mean. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

TechCrunch LA

billion — more than 5x of its valuation at the time of its Series C round, and significantly higher than its $1.875 billion valuation in May (yes, just three and a half months ago) when it raised $125 million in a Series D funding event. Image Credits: SpotOn. SpotOn is taking on the likes of Square in the payments space.

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Does Best Buy Need a Restart?

Eric Greenspan

The warranty or service plan being offered is completely overpriced and has created a widespread awareness that the company is trying to fix its shrinking profit margins by taking advantage of vulnerable shoppers. Provide off the charts service when people use the warranty or service plan, whether paid for or not.

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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

SoCal CTO

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. It’s very difficult to communicate the value of my services and it’s even harder to find people/companies looking to outsource their product development to a business guy like myself.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time. It has to be a pretty good event for it to be worth attending. Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. But some events you dont get quality attendees and then its a drag to drive that far.

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Entreprenuer Network

SoCal CTO

What I mentioned in Events and Networking in Los Angeles was that its somewhat hard in LA to count on networking events to build networks. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Thats right on the money. The articles I cited there around finding co-founders suggests that Ben is on the money.

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TechZulu Tech Crawl | Culver City Edition!

Tech Zulu Event

Be a host company (must provide food / drink to attendees), then email events@techzulu.com with TZTECHCRAWL as the subject. . . ZehnerGroup designs and builds custom websites that scale. ZehnerGroup is a full-service digital agency headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Sponsorship Opportunities for Events, and other channels.