Jim Armstrong is Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners. Jim is very active helping Southern California's aspiring entrepreneurs, and has been instrumental in helping to promote the ...

I really don't know the first thing about politics and very little about economics, but I do know about enablement. My opinion about the tax cuts conversation going on in Washington is this; I believe ...

There is much money to be made in software and tech. AI and innovative paradigms are booming! So, you want to leverage your software or tech offerings to expand in an adjacent market. But how? What is ...

I've spent a reasonable amount of time thinking, over the Christmas break, of what types of startup companies succeed, what types raise funding, what types are capital intensive. It's also been ...

Joe Platnick, a member of the Pasadena Angels, recently posted his list of some criteria for selecting an investor at the group's blog, Ask The Angels, and he gave us permission to repost it here.

socalTECH.com is the premier source of information on Southern California venture deals, companies, and venture capitalists, news, and more, and also gives you access to our job postings, news, and ...

The allure to of a company-changing deal with a BDC is strong. Big companies make a number of seductive promises, including access to large markets, significant financial resources and vital public ...

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear what has been a gray area of copyright law – copyright owners must register their work with the U.S. Copyright Office ...

“You're walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.” – Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street” A week before Groupon’s initial public ...

In real estate, location is everything. In business, not so much. Thanks to a tipping point in technology, the physical location of a company’s employees is irrelevant to its customers and even ...

Anyone who has children or who has been around them for a while knows that kids, as well as young adults, are attracted to video games like flies are attracted to light. And while older adults may ...

The price per share of the Series A Preferred Stock that the venture capital investor is willing to pay is equal to the pre-money valuation of the company divided by the total number of shares ...