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Southern California Leads In Green Businesses, Says Report

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A new report released today by Next 10 , a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy group, says that Southern California--and California, as a whole--leads the green innovation, cleantech venture capital, and energy market. billion invested in cleantech venture capital in the state since 2006.

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Why SoCal's VCs Are Ignored On Forbes' Midas List, By The Numbers

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Ever wonder why Southern California venture capitalists rarely, if ever, make it onto the Forbes Midas List of the best venture capitalists? Despite the constant shutout, other, Bay Area venture capitalists were credited with such Southern California successes as Cornerstone OnDemand and Green Dot, and more recently , Snap.

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LSI Cuts Jobs In Southern California

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LSI Corporation , a developer of data storage products, has cut a product line it had been developing in Southern California, resulting in the layoffs of employees in Irvine and Westlake Village, as well as Israel and Silicon Valley. Sources close to LSI confirmed the layoffs.

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Snap's Big Winners: Spiegel, Murphy, Laskey, Benchmark, Lightspeed

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Of particular note is the involvement of Laskey, who made his first fortune with another, Southern California mobile app maker--Jamdat Mobile--which he took public in 2004, and later sold to EA in 2006 for $680M. Other big winners are venture investors Benchmark Capital , and General Partner Mitch Laskey , with just over $2.0

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. For the more questionable ones, ones with less sustainable differentiation, this time it''s a little tougher than a couple of years ago, and certainly much more so than 2006 and 2007. The problem is diseconomy of scale. Their only option is an IPO.

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Snap's Big Winners: Spiegel, Murphy, Lasky, Benchmark, Lightspeed

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Of particular note is the involvement of Lasky, who made his first fortune with another, Southern California mobile app maker--Jamdat Mobile--which he took public in 2004, and later sold to EA in 2006 for $680M. Other big winners are venture investors Benchmark Capital , and General Partner Mitch Lasky , with just over $2.0

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Rocket Lab Plans First Test Flight Of Satellite Launch Rocket

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Rocket Lab , a Huntington Beach-based startup developing launch rockets, is hoping to join SpaceX as the second, venture-backed rocket developer in Southern California to reach space with a launch on May 22nd. Rocket Lab, which is led by Peter Beck, started developing its rockets in 2006.