There is no question that the group buying space has exploded onto the scene and is one of the fastest growing segments of interactive media and marketing today. The question is, is it here to stay? Is this a bubble? What is the landscape going to look like in a year or two? I’ll be …

April 25, 2011, Irvine, Calif — Tech Coast Venture Network (www.tcvn.org) is hosting the OC Technology Influencer Mixer & Summit 2011, an historic two-day event with partners CompTIA, the world’s largest technology association, the Technology Leadership Political Action Committee and Ingram Micro. Events will commence Monday, May 16th, with an exciting evening networking mixer open …

So, I’m absolutely thrilled about this week coming up. On Monday May 16th, we’re kicking things off with an absolutely start-studded event at the Atrium Hotel in Irvine, CA. The OC Technology Influencer Mixer and Summit. Hosted by TCVN, this is a historic two-day event intended to build grassroots support for the Orange County SMB …

TCVN is proud to support the HBS/USC-Marshall BGC this year with a special TCVN code for attendees. Enjoy! This year, the Harvard Business School/ USC-Marshall Business Growth Conference is proud to announce four outstanding keynote speakers: Warren Bennis, founding chairman of USC’s Leadership Institute; Henrik Fisker, CEO of Fisker Automotive; James F. Rothenberg, Principal Executive …

Congratulations to Stephen Meade  of My Wet Rock, LLC, winner of our March Forum FastPitch $100 prize! We had a terrific program in March with The Dr. Is In. Ciaran Foley presented The Power of Random, a look at our serendipity can be harnessed in our everyday business lives for the positive. This was followed …

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money By Monica Mehta After years of cloudy skies in Startupland, the sun is peeking out, and investors are tipping their toes back into the wading pool. Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested …

A new study released by the Kauffman Foundation this week shows that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has the highest number of entrepreneurs per 100,000 people, of the top fifteen largest MSAs. According to the study of entrepreneurial activity in the United States, LA-Long Beach-Santa Ana had 620 entrepreneurs for every 100,000 …

Wally Eater, one of our esteemed and longtime Executive Committee members, brought this Wall Street Journal article to my attention. It presents some excellent sites for entrepreneurs and is well worth a look. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704774604576036260244167854.html

We had a terrific morning workshop today covering buy-sell details for startups. The workshop, led by Bart Greenberg was well attended with over 25 registrants and just shy of that number packed the HaynesBoone offices. Thanks to everyone who braved getting up early to get your startup fix. From the smiles on everyone’s faces, it …

Irvine-based Tech Coast Venture Network has named Ciaran Foley Chairman of the Board, replacing Bart Greenberg, who has been Chairman since August. 2005. Kevin McDonald is the new TCVN President, a position Foley held for the past year and Greenberg held before that. TCVN, a nonprofit technology group, was founded in 1984 to educate and …