socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

Miller, who was at DuPont from 1972 through 2011, has joined the firm to head up business development initiatives for the company. Biofuels and renewable chemical technology firm Verdezyne announced Wednesday that it has named a new Chief Business Officer. The firm said that Ray W.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. A majority of small business leaders intend to be more aggressive in 2011 by implementing a range of actions to advance their businesses. Respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2011.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2014

billion, and has hired investment banking firm Jeffries to handle the sale. Epicor--which is now based in Austin, Texas, but which had been based in Irvine for years--was sold to Apax Partners back in 2011. Apax paid $976M for Epicor back in 2011. READ MORE>>. epicor software merger acquisition private equity exit apax'

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

I was just asked about a particular startup situation (seed stage, CMO hire, non-founder) and particularly what compensation and equity is appropriate.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2011

A report released today by Silicon Valley Bank said that 83 percent of startups plan to hire this year, up from 73% of startups that had hiring plans in last year's survey. SVB said its Startup Outlook 2011 survey came from the responses of 375 U.S-based

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2015

District Court in California, claims breach of contract and theft of intellectual property by Luckey, who Total Recall claims they hired to help them develop immersive, head mounted displays. Total Recall says that it hired Luckey to build the company a head mounted display in 2011--information that he later used to start Oculus VR.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

CFOs and senior comptrollers, and in California with 47 private and public companies--about 28 percent of California companies plan to increase hiring in the next six months, with 20 percent planning to decrease hiring. economy will not recover until the second half of 2011 or later.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based Network Automation , which develops IT and business process automation software, has hired back founder Dustin M. Snell was previously Chief Software Architect and CTO of the firm, a position he moved to in January of 2011. Snall as its CEO, the firm said, to focus on growth in the automation market for the firm.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

BYD opened up a new headquarters in Los Angeles in 2011, saying it planned to hire 150 people in LA''s clean technology corridor. READ MORE>>. labor electric cleantech employment jobs china'

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011 -- Tech and Startup Job Fair - Los Angeles. Join us for a technology / startup focused job fair on Sept 22, 2011 at the WOKCANO in Santa Monica. Schmoozd presents JobFair.LA.Looking for greener pastures? Has the Great Recession taken a toll on you? JobFair.LA JobFair.LA

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The company has been looking for a buyer since December of 2011, when it drastically cut its staff and said it had hired an investment banker. Pernix said the buy will help expand its product portfolio. Somaxon had 12 months net sales of approximately $11.7M as of September 30th. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2012

Joost had been spun out of Adconion into a new, independent firm in Santa Monica in January of 2011. It's unclear how the move affects Adconion's operations in Los Angeles, which had been in hiring overdrive last year. Adconion said the move will help launch smartclip into the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Advertising Los Angeles Media 145

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011 -- Tech and Startup Job Fair - Los Angeles. Join us for a technology / startup focused job fair on Sept 22, 2011 at the WOKCANO in Santa Monica. Schmoozd presents JobFair.LA.Looking for greener pastures? Has the Great Recession taken a toll on you? JobFair.LA JobFair.LA

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 17, 2011

Thursday, June 23, 2011 -- LA is Working. Learn who gets the attention of hiring managers during our panel discussion. Fast track job search workshop for experienced professionals seeking employment. Powerful breakout sessions presented by career coaches and experts. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The firms said that Riot Games will continue to maintain its headquarters in Los Angeles, and has plans to "hire aggressively" in 2011. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, however, reports are the deal was worth nearly $400M. The firm had raised less than $20M in funding.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

According to ValueClick, it has hired Greystripe's management team and employee base, and will run Greystripe as a wholly owned subsidiary of ValueClick Media. The company expects Greystripe to add $24 to $26M in revenues for the remainder of 2011. The deal was worth $70M in cash.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 21, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011 -- AITP-LA Panel on Career Development. Whats going to matter most in 2011? Hear what hiring Managers from Bank of America, Farmers Insurance, DirecTV, and other companies say about what sets the preferred candidates apart.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Finding Tech Talent. Whether you are just getting started or want to benchmark your recruiting practices to a gold standard, you will learn from a panel of experts how to maximize utilization of social media recruiting to achieve desired results--technical professional hires. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2011

According to the firm, it is seeing rapid growth and interest in its cloud-based service for IT management, with more than 100 percent revenue growth between June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011. the firm's new San Jose development center will be headed by Moti Eliav.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Finding Tech Talent: Effective Social Media Recruiting? Essential to today's talent acquisition strategy is the use of social media. This program will feature a speaker from LinkedIn, the world's largest audience of affluent, influential professionals. See [link] (more)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. I laid out the following goals: Hire investment partners with operating experience combined with investment experience and deeply committed to LA Tech, but with strong relationships in SF, NYC and beyond.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 -- IEEE Smart Grid / Power and Energy Meeting. Several local companies are already hiring. The Smart Grid is one of the next big employment waves. Please join us and fellow IEEE members to help form a Power and Energy chapter in our Ventura county Section. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 29, 2011

Thursday, August 4, 2011 -- LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: Free Traffic From the Search Engines Do you have a beautiful startup or established website for the world to see. Learn the ins and out of SEO from our featured speaker SEO expert, Rex Freiberger, so you know how to hire a team or do it in house.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Enterprise software startup Classy, which developed a platform through which it says nonprofit organizations have raised nearly $1 billion for their causes, has hired its first-ever chief revenue and chief product officers. Adam Aarons, the new chief revenue officer, was also named Classy’s president.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

is also hiring. From your core first hires and building a board of advisors to raising angel and seed capital, team and community makes a world of difference. Stay tuned for the upcoming Ming.ly public beta launch and join our beta list at [link] Ming.ly

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He said to me (only 9 years ago), “I hope you’re not just hiring her because she’s a woman.” (I Just as Yves mentored me when I became his co-managing partner in 2011, he didn’t seek to ride off into the sunset either. I remember years ago trying to recruit Kara. It took me three years to persuade her to join. Wait, What About Yves?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Don't hire brilliant jerks. But, I also think there will be some exciting companies we hear about in 2011 that aren't just getting started, but are starting to thrive, who have really fundamentally solid businesses. What are the technologies, companies, or things you think the community ought to pay the most attention to in 2011?

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Truecar Southern California High Tech Startup 203

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2009

According to the firm--which is traded OTC--the restricted common stock investment by Guthy-Renker also came with an extension of an agreement the two companies have until June 2011. READ MORE>>.

Commerce 100

Commerce Invest Equity Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Rincon led a $700,000 Series A round in 2011 in The Resumator. Resumator develops social media recruiting tools, which helps startups find and recruit employees. Resumator is unusual in that it is located in Pittsburgh, PA--Rincon tends to make mostly Southern California investments. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Southern California Social Media Venture Capital 157

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

But one common theme I’m hearing from there in 2011 is that it’s impossible to recruit. You have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!, It’s fucking hard hiring right now.&#.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

HauteLook was acquired for $270M in 2011 by Nordstrom. as being one of the firms in technology people want to work for, and which has been hiring. She explains, "These companies tend to hire solid people, people tend to. big requirements for development, release, and QA engineers. LiveNation.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. However at the 2011 Hospitality Conference, he allowed his desire to make an impact impair his reasoning when he hired a band of masked parcours.

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Marketing Conference RSS Angel 209

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. So your Q1 results will be $180,000 less profitable than if you hadn’t hired them. Hiring more people isn’t always the right answer.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 11, 2011

Company Name VigLink Information Release Date 3/10/2011 Transaction Type Venture Equity Amount $5,400,000 Round Series B Proceeds Purpose The financing will be used to accelerate VigLink’s hiring in support of product development and expansion into new content verticals and geographies. VentureDeal.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 14, 2011

Here's our 2011 Intern Application [link] #fb June 9, 2011 10:30 am via Buffer Reply Retweet Favorite @SyynLabs Syyn Labs. Syyn Labs is hiring an intern? You mean the same SyynLabs self-identified as “a group of creative engineers who twist art together with technology&# ?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). o Early on they hired 3 people from ACT software at once (more team hiring) on staff and supplement it with Agency (in LA worked with First Communications – good).

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