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| Congratulations to the D&T Fast 50 |
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By
Richard Koffler What a great time I had last night as a guest of our Infinity sponsor Deloitte & Touche at their annual Orange County/San Diego Technology Fast 50 event at the La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad! It was certainly well worth the two-hour drive each way: excellent networking, delicious food, a beautiful facility, a first-rate production, and the pride of seeing our Software Council member Micro General Corp. come in third with a growth rate of 7,662%. Yes, that's right: seven thousand six hundred sixty two percent. The winner, Prometheus Laboratories, clocked in at 11,243%, and 50th-place ResMed closed the ranks with a "puny" 215%. Other Software Council members in the winners' circle were Autobytel.com (their CFO is on the Software Council's board of directors), Starbase Corporation (winner of the Software Council's Internet Company of the Year award in 2000), and Access360 (acquired last month by IBM). The winner of the Los Angeles Technology Fast 50 was j2 Global Communications at 4,754%, so I guess that we have some catching up to do north of the Orange Curtain. About half of
this year's winners are in information technology; the other half
in computer hardware, semiconductors and life sciences (biomedical
devices, bioengineering, etc.). Sixty percent of both Fast 50 groups
will finance their growth the old-fashioned way: through Deloitte &
Touche has been picking the fastest-growing 50 technology companies
in Orange County and San Diego for the past five years, and in Los
Angeles for the past eight. You can find the Fast 50 eligibility
criteria, lists of winners nationwide, and other details at |