SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? Tony, it's great you'd ask since I've got a blog with a post about different networking events in the LA area.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Here are a few perspectives on the topic of finding technical cofounders: In Building a sweat equity team , Joel on Software tells us: You simply need to network. Go to user groups.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

Local networking – he had better luck by attending a few local meetings and networking. There certainly are a lot of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that you can use. It’s a pretty active, but very private network. That’s actually how he met the person who introduced us.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 2, 2020

Building Good Relationships Is the Goal of Great Networking written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Dr. Ivan Misner who is the founder and chairman of the business networking organization BNI. is from the University of Southern California.

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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. this time with Vince Thompson.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

We invest 40% of our dollars in Southern California firms?—?and A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of talking to Samir Kaji on the Venture Unlocked podcast about a wide range of topics that we as venture capitalists think about everyday, including: How to build a generational firm?—?retaining What’s your unique selling proposition?

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socaltech.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Southern California. High Tech News and Information for Southern California. Member Network. The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part III. Californias various startup accelerators and incubators. Accelerator Crazy In Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And social networks enabled rapid growth and also the ability to more easily find and play with friends or make new ones. A group of friends at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) got together to form a league and also had several members of our client at the time Southern California Gas Company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses. How can they claim this?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf. Most of them suffer from lack of activity, but it's worth a shot.

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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. More often 4.

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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. Right now the conversation is about visible networking.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf. Most of them suffer from lack of activity, but it's worth a shot.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I was making short films, working with major networks like the NFL, had a two-year first look deal with DreamWorks, and living an artistic life. I joined immediately and became the Zevia go-to-girl for Southern California. Zevia Natural Soda was a brand I helped build, nearly from conception. Nothing was quite panning out.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. For me, FI was great for networking with Adeo and the other mentors, who are all world class successful entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the other founders in the program.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California. One of the hotter companies lately in the mobile social networking is FourSquare, which raised $1.35 What gives? Am I a hypocrite? What exactly is seed funding anymore?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg’s journey started when he created a message program ‘ ZuckNet’ at the age of twelve, CourseMatch and FaceMash in college, and finally the world-famous social networking platform ‘Facebook’ which revolutionized communication, followed by taking over WhatsApp and Instagram.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. I've recently co-founded the first political social network FreedomSpeaks and CitySourced.com a real time mobile civic engagement tool.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. I found myself in the middle of such a slow-rolling change twice in my career. First, in the. Source: Wikipedia Common license. By 1975, there were only two. Today the speed of obsolescence is even faster.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. Great companies like BeachMint that are growing at a rapid clip have to dig deep into their networks to meet hiring needs. The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2018

We knew that some places, like NYC, Boston, and Seattle, where we already had deep networks, would be common places for us to invest. We’ve been pleasantly surprised with the expansion of our networks in other geographies, like Southern California (LA, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) and Portland.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). A great opportunity for more visible networking. I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2019

I relocated to Dallas from Southern California in 2010 and created this concept in 2015. I’m excited about access to the mentor network to get some help with navigating this new path. We’re a bootstrapped concept that just so happened to take the entrepreneurial path without instructions, a blueprint or any network.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2007

On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. And there are tons of ways to use social networks. Ben responded with: I’d argue that it’s all a perception, rather than a reality.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 4, 2012

He had no doubt that had he started the company in Silicon Valley, he would have received funding, but the paying customers are all in Southern California — a lot of car manufacturers are based in LA and that makes up a good chunk of his clientele.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

As a result of the continued growth in the mobile space, MassMedia, a full-service advertising, public relations and marketing agency with offices in Las Vegas and Southern California, now integrates mobile advertising into all of its clients’ digital campaigns. billion to $19.3

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. More than 90% of Japanese mobile subscribers are on 3G networks (vs. China’s leading social network (Tencent, who’s product is QQ) already does more than $1 billion in revenue.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

It’s our spot to unwind and unplug, to get away from the busy Southern California lifestyle. 9- The thought of how knowledge of a network can be used for your own career. The idea of the name came from thinking how knowledge of a network can be used for your own creative career. There is a river, ducks, deer, and geese.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Hacking for Defense is now offered at eight universities in addition to Stanford – Georgetown , University of Pittsburgh , Boise State , UC San Diego, James Madison University, University of Southern Mississippi , and later this year University of Southern California and Columbia University.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 10, 2008

A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. This also happens for Technology Council of Southern California , AITP-LA , TechBizConnection and others.

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