Dan Benyamin is a technologist, product designer, and currently advises on all things digital. Dan is a co-founder of the SoCal Tech Group and spends his free time advocating entrepreneurship in the Southern California area. For over 8 years, Dan has led the design and development of award-winning consumer electronics products. In his role as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of PhatNoise, Inc., Dan directed the company's core technology design and development initiatives. PhatNoise's leading-edge designs and products have earned such accolades as Popular Science's Best of What's New, and PC Magazine's Editor's Choice. In 2005, PhatNoise was successfully sold to Harman International, where Dan continued as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to founding PhatNoise, Dan Benyamin conducted extensive research in high-performance DSP systems, especially in the emerging technology of configurable computing. His findings have been published extensively in technical journals and magazines, and he holds several patents in the areas of digital music management and user interface design. Dan holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles.

Jeff is the winner of our recent contest to get a deserving startup into Dealmaker’s Startup Workshop.   Jeff and his team have been working diligently on RideAmigos, a really neat ride sharing service, and are now at the point of taking it…

UPDATED: Contest ends this Friday, October 2nd, at noon PST.  Second and Third place contestants will receive a 50% discount!

Dealmaker has been putting together conferences and roundtables in LA of consistently high quality for the past two years.  These are…

The SoCal Tech Group is happy to announce the first Lean LA meetup.  This will hopefully be just the start of a recurring theme in the Southland: how to build and grow a startup efficiently, using quantifiable and lean business…

If you work in a web business (hint: you do even if you don’t think so!), you need to at least scan through the program at Twiistup, LA’s biggest and most influential Web event.   Events like these help you…

I strongly encourage everyone to check out the list of folks and presentations showing up at this weekend’s BarCamp.  This is a fantastic forum and I believe a key component in enriching the tech and startup community in LA.  Even if…

Heads up: Posts from the SoCal Tech Group blog are now being aggregated in Tony Kerrer’s new directory Southern California Tech Central.  Tony’s done a great job pooling together many of LA’s better sources of technology and social media, and…

The SoCal Tech Group is doing an informal meetup this Tuesday, March 10 at the Westwood Brew Co.   Come and join your fellow entrepreneur / developer / interersted window shoppers, and see what’s happening with LA’s startup community.

There is no…

February saw two big events for the Group, the Startonomics conference and the 8 by 8 dinner.  Here’s a big thank you to Dealmaker for bringing the event to UCLA (no doubt our constant prodding helped move things along).  If you are…

Update: we’re sold out!

We are pleased to announce that Brian Garret of Crosscut Ventures will be our guest at the next 8 by 8 dinner.  Crosscut is part of a new generation of venture funds, specializing in earlier stage opportunities and…

“Build it and they will come, right? Everybody is going to love this, won’t they? It is really about the core technology — that’s where our value is.”

Sound familiar?

Last year, Dealmaker Media put together Startonomics, a great conference focusing on what…