socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

It started around a year ago, as I was driving back from Santa Monica from an event. I thought, it''s great what is going on in Santa Monica, but it''s very hard to be part of the same community, given how far apart the cities are. So, I thought I''d see if there was an interest here to active a community in town.

Pasadena 242

Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. In LA we have entertainment, finance, textiles, aerospace, transportation, fashion and so forth.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. North of the 101].

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Entertainment. It was Citysearch for women to find guys. We started out with our first event at South Bar (in Santa Monica) with about 30 people in attendance. Since out first event we’ve done large parties at high profiled locations such as, The London, SLS (in Beverly Hills), and The Viceroy (in Santa Monica).

Santa Monica 74

Santa Monica Startup Beverly Hills Orange County 74

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

On the other hand, Rosenblatt is one of the biggest reasons why I think Silicon Beach is the future of the entertainment industry in the United States. Google quickly bought AdSense in 2003 and Elbaz’s AS team became Google Santa Monica. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com. Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla Motors, PayPal.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75