LA Hacker News meetup group is pretty awesome as well!
Ask: What's The Startup Scene Like In Southern California?
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Re: Ask: What's The Startup Scene Like In Southern California?
#12Not an expert on any scenes or sure what you mean exactly, but I have been to a few meetup events for the San Diego JavaScript Meetup.com group, and they are definitely mentioning this "startup scene" thing as though they are part of it. There is some overlap with the SD Ruby meetup.com group people. They have a meeting on Tuesday http://www.meetup.com/sandiegojs/events/41414182/ Meets at 3rd Space http://3rdspace.co…
Cool, thanks. I was mainly wondering if there are notable startups that are based there and/or if there is a strong community of people working the startup life.
Yeah, there are quite a few notable startups and a strong community that is growing very quickly. Just had Startup Weekend in Orange County with another planned for March and one in LA in January.
Some solid Tech Meetups: - OC: http://www.meetup.com/OC-Tech-Startup/ - LA: http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Lean-Startup-Circle/ - SD: http://www.meetup.com/SanDiego-Tech-Founders/
I'm down in Orange County so I'm more involved in the community here with startups such as Mavenlink, Catchfree, and Drumbi. If you're going through LA, I strongly suggest stopping by Coloft.
If you have more questions or anything, let me know.
Re: Ask: What's The Startup Scene Like In Southern California?
#13I'm doing a project looking at startup hubs, and some of the related factors. Here's a map of LA startups with some neighborhood outlines: http://imgur.com/hiG3Y .
The data is a crawl from crunchbase, so it's not perfect, but it provides a rough indicator or where startups have popped up over the last 5 years.
The raster underlay is a function of point density within a set radius.
Re: Ask: What's The Startup Scene Like In Southern California?
#14I am moving back to SD next week after a ~10yr hiatus. Any anecdotal info I could offer regarding my experience there is outdated, though I can remember many good experiences working with web development circa 97-2002.
Very interested in finding groupings of web-oriented startups, designers, developers and entrepreneurs to plug into. Please keep the links coming and thanks... Looking forward to it! :D