http://www.lunch20.com/2007/10/12/get-this-la-has-a-tech-community-and-its-huge/ lunching and chatting about technology around silicon valley Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:43:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.lunch20.com/2007/10/12/get-this-la-has-a-tech-community-and-its-huge/comment-page-1/#comment-57888 Benjamin Kuo’s Blog » Blog Archive » Entrepreneurs in Southern California Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:20:14 +0000 http://www.lunch20.com/2007/10/12/get-this-la-has-a-tech-community-and-its-huge/#comment-57888 [...] In terms of meetups and networking events: the major problem here is not so much the number of events — it’s the fact that there is a fragmentation in the market. I regularly run into people promoting events who don’t realize they are running an event on exactly the same night as someone else approaching the same market. LA is so spread out and populous, that you don’t end up with a single community–you end up with multiple communities who may or may not be aware of each other. In terms of networking opportunities, just looking at the past couple of weeks, there was Thursdays In The Mix on October 4th, on the same night as an Entrepreneur’s Mixer, which was followed by VentureNet on the 5th; then a OC Innovation Mixer on Monday in OC at the Hive from the Digital Coast Roundtable;  then there was Lunch 2.0 on Friday the 12th at Yellowbot. And those are just a fraction of the networking events and opportunities here. [...]

]]> http://www.lunch20.com/2007/10/12/get-this-la-has-a-tech-community-and-its-huge/comment-page-1/#comment-57556 emad Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:00:45 +0000 http://www.lunch20.com/2007/10/12/get-this-la-has-a-tech-community-and-its-huge/#comment-57556 Thanks for setting this up, Andrew! We all had a great time and we hope to be able to hold more of these events at our offices! Thanks for setting this up, Andrew! We all had a great time and we hope to be able to hold more of these events at our offices!

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