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Nirvanix Shuts Down, Gives Mere Two Weeks To Customers

socalTECH

Nirvanix apparently told some of its biggest partners and customers Monday about the shutdown, although the company has yet to release any public notice of the shutdown plans. The company seemed to be on the upswing, with a long list of high profile customers; the company had even hired Zynga''s CIO earlier this year.

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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. Just a few months earlier, Hinshaw had sold his private healthcare IT consulting company, MaxIT Healthcare, to government contractor SAIC for $473 million.

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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

Tech Zulu Event

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. Alex Kazerani.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

socalTECH

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). After we sold it to that public company, I founded HashtagOne. What's the theme of your investments?

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

Whatever you’re trying to brand – your company, your community or yourself – this is the first exercise I would recommend that you start with. We’ll work our asses off and build huge companies that will define the next generation of American’s lives.” Think about venture capital.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

Tech Zulu Event

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. TechZulu caught up Robert Sussman, Co-CEO of Zunguz , the Facebook payment app.