Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

I was just talking with someone who's new to Los Angeles and wanting to connect into the Los Angeles Startup Community. Los Angeles Startup Community Posts/Articles Here are some interesting articles and posts on the ecosystem around startups in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

I was just talking with someone who's new to Los Angeles and wanting to connect into the Los Angeles Startup Community. Los Angeles Startup Community Posts/Articles Here are some interesting articles and posts on the ecosystem around startups in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

40% of our deals are done in Los Angeles but 100% of our deals leverage the LA networks we have built for 25 years. I think most people know we’re HQ’d in LA (Santa Monica to be exact) but we invest nationally and internationally. We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

I have a great network of fellow CTOs, especially in the Los Angeles area. I've organized the LA CTO Forum (a private group of 150+ CTOs in Los Angeles) for 10+ years. I often will tap into that network to try to help find people for startups. In Los Angeles, the answer is "often."

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles. Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2024

This includes mentorship, coaching, networking opportunities, and marketing support. The post Masha Bucher, Founder of Day One Ventures, Joins the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Her success was recognized by making the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2019.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. In this post, Cliff provides some feedback on what works when you move towards doing business networking online. Cliff create a great image for the group.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

Performance was essentially identical to the plaintext tests, confirming earlier suspicions that the impact of small JSON serialization workloads on high-performance platforms is trivial compared to the HTTP network traffic. Incidentally, a later test will exercise larger JSON workloads.). We are hiring.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

I’m seeing and hearing that it’s becoming tough finding good developers again, at least here in Los Angeles. And it’s not just me, Ben Kuo just posted - Good news for developers (and jobs) We’ve been talking with a lot (and I mean a LOT) of people who are looking for developers in Southern California (Los Angeles and beyond).

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

I have a great network of fellow CTOs, especially in the Los Angeles area. I've organized the LA CTO Forum (a private group of 150+ CTOs in Los Angeles) for 10+ years. I often will tap into that network to try to help find people for startups. In Los Angeles, the answer is "often."

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

More Visible Networking? Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Tony: I personally am torn by choices around Networking Events in Los Angeles – you can go to something almost every night. I run a lot.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”). Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve updated my earlier post on Networking Events Los Angeles with some great suggestions from Lorin Cha who I just met through LinkedIn. However, there are some great folks who have lots of experience also attending so the networking and discussion is generally pretty great. Don’t forget to check out Plancast.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2020

If your community attracts top talent and businesses, then your company’s resources, networking opportunities, and growth partners all improve. Similarly, Los Angeles just announced a PPP to address sustainable transportation issues.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. In a recent conversation with a fellow CTO, we lamented about the fact that while there's very active software development and web development going on in Southern California and West Los Angeles, yet there didn't seem to be as much of a community around it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Hint: 60 million US Latinos driving US growth engine) I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I've recently co-founded the first political social network FreedomSpeaks and CitySourced.com a real time mobile civic engagement tool. You are a really great networker and help put on great networking events, what do you think about the concept of visible networking? What are you working on now?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point. The content comes from other places.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. Natural networker with a proven track-record of establishing broad relationships. Self starter.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Yes, it’s lower quality than network, primetime television. But many network shows cost up to $100,000 PER MINUTE to produce. And it’s not lost on me that the majority of these people live and work in Los Angeles. Note that the logo of YouTube used to say, “Broadcast Yourself.” Where I call home.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

From New York, Philadelphia, and Boston to Los Angeles and San Francisco, entrepreneurs came out to share their enthusiasm -- you really are everywhere. Don’t forget to tweet a photo of your book to see it on thestartupway.com Thank you, as always, for your support.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2019

From a technical perspective, “machine learning” means introducing data into a neural network, so the mathematical model learns to recognize patterns. Once that AI foundation is in place, the network learns to recognize categorization, transformation, and even prediction.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Just saw a great post by Mark Geller - Developers wanted… in Los Angeles, U.S.A. While the cost of hardware, hosting and networks rapidly falls, software gets easier to build at a much slower rate. you can get to know Mark a bit more in my post Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller ). who would love to talk with you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Of course you can have a few competitors and still find enough charges but once you’ve gotten 2–3 big players in any city it’s hard to imagine many more players building out as efficient of a charger network as the early innovator. There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service!

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 12, 2009

This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles. I want to take you through a bit of what brought me here, because I think it will help explain what I mean by visible networking.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

You should begin asking at networking events and people you know in the startup world. This also avoids a common problem that will sometimes happen when you go the networking route. For me, I'd use LinkedIn. The challenge is that LinkedIn is not that great with finding people who were at early-stage startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 24, 2014

We’ve already done a couple at General Assembly Los Angeles, if you’d like to attend in the future – stay updated by following here. Amit is amongst the best liked and most admired tech professional in Los Angeles and has a network that extends nationwide.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Learning, Networking, Mentors From the question, this person is clearly looking at the issue of how to grow into this role. Here in Los Angeles, it's the LA CTO Forum - a private, invite only group of 250+. In addition to networking, I would suggest that formal learning is a great idea. You could even use LinkedIn.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2012

That’s where Los Angeles-based startup myRight comes in. The startup hopes that by having a network of legal expertise that is available online and made interactive, basic understanding of the law will be improved. Legal counsel can be an expensive proposition, and asking uninformed friends is courting trouble.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

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. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles is known for sun, stars, and surf, and now you can add startups to the list.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2020

Speed networking. You may be familiar with this Los Angeles-based digital agency; Nettra has partnered with Google and Facebook, managing over 19 million dollars with both of these powerhouses. But don’t get too stressed out; when there’s a will, there will always be a way. Throw an extraordinary event. Happy hours.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007. Techstars Healthcare, in partnership with Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles). Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin). Techstars IoT (NYC).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Freelancing and project-based work is more common in Los Angeles than it is in most US markets; it’s also common in Europe and doesn’t indicate an unwillingness to take a full-time job. By taking a proactive networking approach, you can ensure a steady stream of referrals.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. Pham left the startup in June 2011 over unknown reasons and went to work at Los Angeles incubator Science.

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