socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

There''s a gap between the robust, growing technology startups in Los Angeles and the many students graduating from local universities, according to Steven Dietz , who is a venture capitalist at LA''s Upfront Ventures. We caught up with Steve earlier this week to learn more about the program. What''s the idea behind the program?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, we announced our end-of-the-year project, which was to collect and share the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Today, we share the thoughts of Scott Painter the CEO and founder of TrueCar , as well as a number of other successful firms and startups in Southern California.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

As Guy notes in the accompanying video interview, his primary goal with Enchantment is to reach a broader audience, beyond the high-tech, startup world. To this end, Guy has written a book that can be used by anyone seeking to further their cause ; from startups, to non-profits, to public policy issues to getting a job.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2014

In the first time that President Barack Obama has paid a special visit to the epicenter of Southern California''s high tech industry, the President spoke for over an hour to an audience of entrepreneurs at Cross Campus , the Santa Monica coworking space, touching on topics around providing an infrastructure for the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2013

Cool Planet Biofuels said it will be opening up its first manufacturing plant in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The move is at least the second, biofuels company pulled out of Southern California by Colorado, which--along with states like Texas--has been very aggressive in courting high tech startups from Southern California.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. His latest startup, Row 44, is providing hardware to Southwest Airlines and other airlines for wireless access, and has a number of announced wins.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. My starting salary was $27,000. But they weren’t good enough for our problems – we were the tech rescuers.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2011

In a sign that demand for employees from Southern California technology firms is on the rise, two, separate announcements Wednesday from local companies indicates that hiring demand at local companies is up, and companies are again scrambling to fill positions.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Dan Dato: The quickest way to describe it is it's a Techstars-like, YCombinator-like startup accelerator.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2018

Los Angeles-based Bonfire Ventures said this morning that it has officially launched with its first fund, a new $60M fund aimed at early stage startups. The fund was founded by longtime Southern California technology investors Jim Andelman and Mark Mullen, who are joined by Leah Volger, formerly of Google and Santander InnoVentures.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. Joanne Bradford: The first thing we start with everyday, is listening to the signal of what people are doing.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Howard Marks is co-founder of Activision , and head of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator StartEngine. I don't even know where to start. Finally, Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Even experienced entrepreneurs need a partner to back up each other and improve fundability. Start with your own judgment, but don’t hesitate to ask for advice from a seasoned investor. Start the search with business networking. The question is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner. Talk to people at work. Hire a lawyer.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

Former Los Angeles-based online real estate startup REX has shifted its headquarters to Texas, after the move of its CEO to Austin, in a loss to Southern California's growing high tech startup community--although the company says it still has a team of 50 in Woodland Hills, and that it expects to continue to grow its team in that location.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Startups Made Simple. source for executive talent -- serving emerging growth company clients in the high. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Are you interested in reaching our highly targeted, tech-savvy audience? on April 24, 2009.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

robotics startup spun out of Idealab--uses cleaning cloths to tidy up your hard floors. features an interface powered by Google TV, and delivers both the web and streaming. display and support for up to 10 Wi-Fi enabled devices, plus 11 hours of battery life. But, it's awful fun when it's a robot doing the work.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Weve started with dark web monitoring, and we are adding credit monitoring to help our users better control their digital identity. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Interesting in reaching Southern California's high tech industry? Startups Made Simple. source for executive talent -- serving emerging growth company clients in the high.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. MomentFeed clients were well-positioned to amp up their digital presence and continue to remain visible online, even when consumers weren't passing by their store offline.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Every month, there’s news of another partnership among carmakers like GM and tech companies such as Uber, as they vie for dominant roles in a transportation future where individual car ownership may largely give way to rides-on-demand from fleets of autonomous and tech-enabled vehicles.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

We caught up with Nick--who is a veteran of the area's high tech industry, most recently serving as CEO of Velocify--to get the latest on MomentFeed, which provides services to multi-brand, location businesses. Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2010

Start with your own judgment, but don’t hesitate to ask for advice from a seasoned investor. Start the search with business networking. Join entrepreneur groups online, like Linkedin “On Startups”, Facebook for Business, and use Twitter to find people with like-minded interests. Join online “dating” sites for business partners.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

It’s always been Xconomy’s mission to reach audiences—both here on our website, and at our many live events around the country—with deep insights into the innovation process, divined from experts embedded in the world’s most important hubs of high-tech entrepreneurship. And now we’re doing that in one more medium: podcasting.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

After recent announcements by Google and Apple, the mobile advertising ecosystem is abuzz with optimism and flush with venture capital. Should media companies offer their content on an ad-supported basis or get users to pay up front? Meanwhile, are the augmented reality apps too high-tech to make it into the mainstream?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

I scan it for the most important messages to be sure nothing urgent has popped up. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. About six months ago I signed up for a service called PhoneTag run by Jamie Siminoff. I was a Google Desktop user for years.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

It is not rational to put oneself into the uncertain, stress-filled environment of a startup. If it were a decision to be an entrepreneur, then most right-minded individuals would decide to turn back when they encountered the first inevitable startup crises. Your smaller, more nimble part-time startup can outperform BDCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. Is Google to blame? When it comes for speaking up for venture capitalists for which you are simply not a “king” I have but one bit of advice.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

When seeking the perfect pitch, in baseball and in the startup world, less is a lot more. Following this logic, startups that lack a compelling positioning claim might experience fewer opportunities to deliver their elevator pitch and thus have greater difficulty obtaining funding. Google x Facebook x Amazon) + (Universal Reviews).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This morning's contribution is from Krisztina 'Z' Holly host of the The Art of Manufacturing podcast and founder of MAKE IT IN LA (www.makeitinla.org), which supports connecting local manufacturers and high tech companies. We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It’s the only site aside from Google I go to every single day so that I don’t miss out on an incredible offer. To prove that point, tonight I had the privilege of hearing him speak at Lean LA , a Los Angeles group that helps high tech start-ups build great companies on a budget. But you need to pay the bills!’

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