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JUNE 30, 2016

Amongst the most often asked questions I get from founders is, “How much money should I raise?” Reflexively founders want to raise as much money as they can because they figure it will give them more resources, better chances of competing and a longer runways before they have to do the often painful job of asking, yet again, for money. Every time you ask for money you’re faced with the possible of feeling literally and figuratively like a failure.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa , the CEO of El Segundo-based Kaleo (www.kaleo.com), is a serial entrepreneur who has previously built and sold four companies, including one acquired by IFILM, and another by Sun Microsystems. He's now hard at work at a new company, Kaleo, which is tackling the enterprise, knowledge sharing market�and already has an impressive list of Fortune 500 customers.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2016

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. In 1987, when Rick Astley filmed the video for his hit song Never Gonna Give You Up , he had no idea it would eventually become one of the most viewed videos of all time. By 2016, the video had been watched over 218 million times. Never Gonna Give You Up ’s resurgence began in 2007, when a user on an obscure gaming site posted a link to Rick’s video under the heading for a trailer of the not-yet-released Grand Theft Auto IV video game.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 30, 2016

Here is a variation of the “tree falls in the forest” question. In past insights, we’ve looked at leadership skills, ways to enhance effectiveness, and how to develop creative ideas that motivate and propel your organization to greatness. Here is the ultimate question for a leader…. You’ve heard the old saying that you can lead by fear or lead because people want to follow.

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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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JUNE 30, 2016

Culver City-based All Def Digital , an urban youth programming media brand co-founded by Sanjay Sharma and Russell Simmons, has raised $10M in a Series B financing. The funding was led by Third Wave Digital partners, and also included WPP Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, along with Nu Horizons, Greycroft Partners, eVentures and Advancit Capital. All Def Digital said the funding will go towards original programming, distribution, and brand marketing services.

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L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 30, 2016

Disney to buy $3.5 billion stake in online MLB, Honest Co. moving slowly to IPO, Woven Digital raises $18.5 million, and more.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 30, 2016

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 -- Cross Campus LA Launches.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Los Angeles-based Woven Digital , which develops original video content aimed at the pop culture and millennial male market, has raised $18.5M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by WPP Ventures, along with Institutional Venture Partners and Advancit Capital. The company said the funding will go to scale its coverage of news, sports, and entertainment.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

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. They wanted to combine Hinshaw’s experience in starting and growing health IT startups with Balgrosky’s expertise in strategic IT planning and overhauling healthcare IT networks—but without getting too deeply involved.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Lake Forest-based implantable, corneal inlay maker ReVision Optics has received FDA approval on the company's Raindrop Near Vision Inlay, the company reported late Wednesday. ReVision Optics' implantable, presbyopia-correcting corneal inlay helps improve the visio of patients, by reshaping the anterior curvature of the cornea. The company said its technology can handle patients with refraction of +1.00 D to -0.50 D.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

As part of a national cancer “moonshot” initiative led by Vice President Joe Biden, the FDA said Wednesday it would retool the way it evaluates cancer treatments and tests. But to what end? The goals of the FDA’s new Oncology Center of Excellence remain vague, as does its structure. In a speech Wednesday morning at the initiative’s national summit at Howard University in Washington, DC, Biden (pictured), whose son Beau died last year of brain cancer, stressed the urgency

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JUNE 30, 2016

Santa Monica-based Callfire is teaming up with another company to help power political campaigns and non-profits, the firm said this week. CallFire, which offers up a cloud-based platform for text and voice messaging and APIs, said it has linked up with CFB Strategies , which provides data management services to political campaigns and nonprofits. Financial details of the link were not disclosed.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Inside our bodies, our cells move around, communicate, form new tissue, and heal wounds with the help of proteins called integrins. But when disease occurs, integrins get the wrong cues and do damage—they might help tumors grow, or promote inflammation or scarring inside the body. Several drugs to block bad integrin behavior and treat a range of maladies have come to market.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Inphi , the semiconductor developer which has a major part of its operation in Westlake Village, has sold off its Memory Interconnect Business unit to Rambus , the companies said this morning. According to the two, Rambus will pay $90M in cash for the business, acquiring product inventory, customer contracts, supply chain agreements and intellectual property.

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JUNE 30, 2016

A report from the WSJ late Thursday said that Apple Computer is in discussions with music service Tidal --founded by Jay-Z--to acquire the company. No pricing details on the potential deal--which the Journal said "may not result in a deal"--were released. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

Carlsbad-based BandwidthX , which provides an online marketplace for third party, Wi-Fi networks--targeted at helping mobile operators scale their cellular networks--said it has received a strategic investment from Orange Digital. The size of the investment was not announced by the company. BandwidthX's real-time marketpace lets mobile operators buy up unused, Wi-Fi capacity from broadband Internet service providers, helping them to offload the load on their mobile data networks.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

Los Angeles-based ProducePay , which develops a service to help farmers better manage their cash flow, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round, the company said this week. The funding came from Menlo Ventures, Arena Ventures, CoVenture, Red Bear Angels and Social Leverage. ProducePay is led by Pablo Borquez. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Los Angeles-based HomeMe , which develops an app to pre-approve renters for apartments, has named two executives, the company said earlier this week. The company said it has named Raj Chauhan as Chief Revenue Officer and Natalie Cariola as Vice President of Sales. Chauhan has previously served at Adslot Technologies, OpenX Technologies, Rubicon Project, Move, and Yahoo!

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