Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5 million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We love this! If you've not been watching the ASP.NET team's community standups , you have missed some surprisingly transparent, interesting, and oftentimes funny updates from a major web application framework development team. Every time I watch one I marvel, this is Microsoft? Clearly we're seeing a new Microsoft. If you're not watching, you would have also missed how much emphasis the ASP.NET team is putting on performance.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Los Angeles-based HomeMe , a new startup founded by Mark Douglas, the CEO and founder of Steelhouse, said today that it has launched into the App Store, and hopes to make it easier for renters to find apartments. The new mobile app lets users enter their financial information--their annual income, credit, background and rental history--and pre-approves those users for apartments they are pre-qualified to rent.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

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Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Irvine-based cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike has rolled out new features for its cloud-based endpoint protection product, Crowdstrike Falcon, saying it has added new enhancements to protect against ransomware, stop breaches faster, and remediate attacks using network containment. The company said it has added new machine learning capabilities to block malware and adware, among many other enhancements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

If you can’t deal with failure, then the entrepreneur lifestyle is not for you. Don’t believe that urban myth that all you need is a good idea, a little fun work, and the money will start rolling in. When you are pushing the limits, nobody gets it right the first time, or even maybe the tenth time. That’s why the term “pivot” was invented, so you don’t have to call every change a failure.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Deliv , the same day delivery provider which crowdsources couriers for delivering products for such companies as TheBouqs, has raised $28M in a Series B funding. Deliv, said the funding came from the UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, along with Upfront Ventures, RPM Ventures, PivotNorth Capital, General Growth Properties, The Macerich Company, Simon Venture Group, Taubman Centers, Inc. and Westfield Corp.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Redlands-based mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software provider Esri and 3D mapping provider Vricon said late Tuesday that the two have linked up through Esri's partnership rpogram. The two said the move will provide 3D geodata to Esri's customers. Vricom provides photo-realistic, 3D mapping products and digital elevation models, which it offers to the defense and security industry.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , which provides technology and payroll and production management services to the entertainment industry, said it has named Alex Godelman as its new Chief Technology Officer. Godelman was most recently Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Sony New Media Solutions, and also had served at Evolve Media, and also sits on the boards of ParaScale, DRESR and SweetyHigh.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

San Diego-based residential solar provider OneRoof Energy said today that it has signed an agreement with the University of California, Riverside , to work on testing of next generation photovoltaic products. OneRoof Energy said UCR's Southern California Research Initiative for Solar Energy (SC-RISE) will be testing next generation solar modules for the company, to validate those products and test functionality under real life conditions.

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