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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. Of course, part of the reason that I went to you when I started thinking about visible networking is that you run a company that's right in the middle of this.

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Los Angeles Web Developer

SoCal CTO

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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Seven Questions Startups Should Ask To Get On Store Shelves

YoungUpstarts

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. I fell in love with this brand and so did the rest of America. Nothing was quite panning out.

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Have you fallen into the buggy whip trap?

Berkonomics

late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records. Source: Wikipedia Common license.

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Where Does Foundry Group Invest?

Feld Thoughts

When we started Foundry Group, we said that 33% of our investments would be in California (which, at the time, we thought of as equivalent to the Bay Area), 33% would be in Colorado, and 34% would be in the rest of the United States. We have always believed that great companies can be created anywhere.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

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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The “buggy whip” trap.

Berkonomics

First, in the late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records.