A sketchy economy has one very positive benefit – it drives creativity and innovation. Thursday evening (28 May 2009) the Tech Cost Venture Network/TCVN met in Irvine, once again opening the stage to a new crop of entrepreneur candidates, and provided a great seminar on the topic of “Raising Money – Friends, Family, and other [...]

Objective – bring the masses quickly up to speed on cloud computing. Oh yes, and do it in an interesting, painless venue that not only informs, but also inspires and motivates attendees to become viral cloud evangelists.

Interop Las Vega can be boiled down to a single topic – cloud computing. Lots of variations such as cloud security, cloud provisioning, cloud storage, cloud everything. Monday kicked off with the Enterprise Cloud Summit, which attracted nearly 300 attendees. The speaker lineup was pretty impressive, with the focus on introducing the cloud concept and [...]

Engineers are a funny breed. We spend much of our lives being skeptical, proving or disproving ideas and theories. At the same time we crave new ideas and technologies. Those engineers who are creative and develop new ideas often lack skills needed to turn visions into useful products. Enter OCTANe, fuel for the entrepreneurial spirit [...]

BizJournals posted their 2009 Top 100 Tech City Center listing on Monday.  Three SoCal locations ranked within the top 25 tech center cities, including San Diego (6), Los Angeles (12), and Oxnard/Thousand Oaks (17). San Jose topped the list, with the San Francisco/Oakland area coming in 4th. BizJournals’ methodology for ranking tech centers looks at [...]