Industry News and Info (Southern California)

It has been a while since I have written a post...

I want to thanks Jack for annoying the heck out of me to put a post out there! Thanks Jack! This post will give people an idea of what is cooking out there in the Southern California Market right now, hopefully without getting in too much trouble


First, to start..

Here is some industry news...

Edgecast is up to some cool stuff
LiveUniverse I am seeing attrition, not sure if they are rolling their acquisitions up properly.
We have a few lead gen players doing SUPER SUPER well with some healthy EBIDA
- Many people are making tons off Email still, multiple verticals around the financial services (credit, debt) and more...
Recent hot startups are starting to explode...
Magnify360.com , SupplyFrame.com and a few others about to rock.. .

Hot industry trend right now seeing who can OWN the fashion / Entertainment ad targeting network world.

Rubicon is making solid splash in the market, their performance is speaking loud, many big content portal are super pleased with their results.

Lead Gen remains to be a growing trend in the So. California market.

Impremedia launched their online portal, impre.com and plans to build out their online portal and branch in to lead gen across the Hispanic / Latino market both domestically and internationally.

Watch out for Blastro Networks who owns a few web properties to be up and coming...

In addition, we are seeing fall out finally from some Experian Interactive Executives... Also, Yahoo is paying top top top RSU's to retain their top talent.

Anyways, I am sure I am missing some more. Times are busy, much happening out there. There is some hot demand for

PHP Developers, both back and front end.

Heavy deman for high level Engineering Leaders and Product Managers.

Also, I am seeing further investments in the SAS / CRM / Software Space. We will see what this brings.

On my personal side, neohire.com is doing very well. We are a team of 8, and adding 2 more people to the team shortly, and looking for new office space in the Santa Monica area.

Concurrently, we keep adding features on to ResumeBucket.com (My Startup) which is heading the right direction. We have had multiple offers for funding, however we still have money in the bank, and plan on keep it strictly friends, family and angel only.

In addition, we are working on setting up a recruiting affiliate network. There will be two tiers, 1 cold referalls and warm refer alls where the user who is part of the affiliate network has the ability to make a nice chunk of change for leveraging their relationships and network.

Keep on your toes, lot's happening, many startups that are hot and growing fast.

Oh yea, check out SocialVibe.com...

Jack, hope this was enough for you.. I have never been busier.. Keep cranking

Ciao


*** P.S. Again, disregard grammar and spelling errors, I was never an English major

Peace