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Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and SouthernCalifornia 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.
But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in SouthernCalifornia. One of the hotter companies lately in the mobile socialnetworking is FourSquare, which raised $1.35 What gives? Am I a hypocrite?
Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and SouthernCalifornia 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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I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of SouthernCalifornia venture capital firms. Sales of avatars in social games nearly 50% of total revenue eclipsing revenue from affiliate transaction, ads or paid games (slide 97). couponing, vertical socialnetworks, Internet TV, etc.
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On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in SouthernCalifornia and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a SouthernCalifornia entrepreneur and blogger. And there are tons of ways to use socialnetworks. That said, I agree with Ben that you have to know where to look and how to look.
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LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), socialnetworking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company.
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Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - SocialNetworking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other socialnetworks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.
late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in SouthernCalifornia 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.
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He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of SouthernCalifornia and UCLA , he says. Nick Smoot just leased offices in Venice for his social-networking app for businesses, Here On Biz, based on all the activity in the area. "I Weve reached out to the schools."
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I want to say first that I went to school down in southernCalifornia and I still love it down there however for my industry, technology, I love it up here. I suggest that you network with your peers and consider switching companies sometime in your career. Tags: SocialNetworking Technology.
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Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and SouthernCalifornia the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. I see online video, mobile location, specialized socialnetworking, and other craps.
Scott: They built a socialnetwork before Mark Zuckerberg was even born. We’ve got a polarized political world online where the socialnetworks, Facebook and the others optimize for polarization because they want to put you into a tribe. And he’s a dentist in SouthernCalifornia.
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