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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). In 2011, we had two of our patents approved. I was introduced to the founders.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

You are writing about the essentials of business. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. You and I were talking about a startup recently and where they might go for seed stage funding, what is your impression on that aspect here in Los Angeles? That's great. Are you doing much of that?

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

socalTECH

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

socalTECH

Plus, there's always shoulder surfing--when people write them down, and are grabbing for your daytimer or spreadsheet for passwords--that's treating passwords like it's the 1950's, and leaving your front door key under a door mat. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. MUST be on this list!!

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. UFA Widows and Childrens Fund The Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York distributes donations directly to the families of fallen firefighters. It’s all dumped from memory without further thoughts and didn’t face a syntax checker. Posting tweet.

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