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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

We sat down for an hour to talk about why what GaiKai built was able to overcome its much better funded rival and to dispel the myth that great engineering teams don’t exist in Southern California. 30:30 Mike Jones is one of the five most prolific angel investors in southern California.

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

On a separate note, Cliff, should I add your blog.allen.com to the B2B Marketing Zone ? What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? For meetings aimed at helping salespeople network, I like B2B Power Exchange ( www.b2bpowerexchange.com ). 2) How do these mind maps change in a 2.0

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

Over time, though, military spending wound down and many large aerospace and military companies left Southern California. Dealflow in Southern California is much more organic and less efficient. Los Angeles, at least metaphorically, became more of a media/entertainment town.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

In the kelp beds off the coast of Southern California, one can find thousands of species of fish, but two of the most sought after by commercial fishermen are the California Halibut and the White Seabass. Maybe you’ll be hunting on a reef with a spear gun for 20lb groupers (B2B sales at a conference)?

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? Again, an interesting topic to discuss.

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Online Business Networking Los Angeles

SoCal CTO

Cliff also sparked an idea that along with using in a separate conversations sparked the idea that we should be using Southern California Tech Central as a means of helping to aggregate the conversation. We can use could choose a hashtag (e.g., I'm not sure if it will add value at this point.