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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Presenting Companies at CalTech

Tech Zulu Event

The Spotlight is shining down these amazing LA companies! This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Winners: Spotlight Companies. Spotlight: LA Tech Summer SuperDemo is all electric car company CODA.

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Interview with Thomas Russell, ETC Solar, Improving Solar Cell Efficiency

socalTECH

We spoke with Thomas on how the company's technology was spun out of Caltech, and why the startup believes the solar cell industry needs its technology. Thomas Russell: We're a spinout of Caltech, out of the labs of Professor Harry Atwater. While I was working at Caltech we invented this technology. READ MORE>>.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more.

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Impinj Raises $21M, But Drops IPO Effort

socalTECH

Impinj , a developer of UHF, radio frequency identification (RFID) chips which has linked to Caltech, and an office in Orange County, said today that it has raised $21M in an equity funding round, as well as dropped its plans for an IPO. Impinj said the funding came from AllianceBernstein L.P., The firm had filed for an IPO in April 2011.

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Insights and Opinions: If It Walks Like An Entrepreneur.

socalTECH

I learned that based on my selling statistics (which were good, but not great), every non-sale got me 1/15th of the way toward a sale. To stay super-motivated, I had to train myself to view a non-sale as having earned a hard $20 (1/15th of a full commission), rather than seeing it as a failure. Continued.). READ MORE>>.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

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Similar current buzz-meter terms include: geo-location, geo-fencing, local deals, local offers, flash sales, group sales, privates sales and augmented reality. I recently gave talks at Caltech & Stanford. And of course – badges. Fawking badges. OK, I get it. Badges were an innovation. And they seem to work.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

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Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two.