socalTECH

MAY 29, 2015

Santa Monica-based secure messaging app developer TigerText , which provides secured text messaging for the enterprise and healthcare markets, has signed up a customer in Chicago. TigerText said that Chicago Cardiology Institute (CCI), which treats cardiovascular disease in Illinois, has deployed the company's secure messaging products as part of a HIPAA compliance effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Image via Pixabay.com Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions.

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Organization Startup Competition IBM 100

socalTECH

MAY 29, 2015

Venice-based Snapchat has raised $537.6M more--part of an ongoing $650M funding round--as the instant messaging app developer continues to break Southern California records in both total funding and valuation. According to a regulatory filing, the latest funding round had its first funds committed in February, and so far has 35 investors. The new investors reportedly include Alibaba, Fidelity, York Capital, and Glade Brook Capital, and the funding has widely been reported at valuing the company

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Snapchat Southern California Funding Venice 135

Steve Reich

MAY 29, 2015

Here’s how the Malauzai team lauched a watch app in 40 days!

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Mobile Entrepreneur 43

Advertiser: Aggregage

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

MAY 29, 2015

Los Angeles-based programmatic advertising marketplace and technology developer OpenX has signed on local news site Patch as a customer, saying it has been named the exclusive provider of ad serving and monetization for Patch. OpenX said that Patch will use its programmatic technology platform across its properties, which reach over 17.4 million unique visitors.

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OpenX News Advertising Los Angeles 131

socalTECH

MAY 29, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm has announced the ten companies that are part of its first Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator , which is being held in San Diego and just started this week. Qualcomm said it selected Carbon Robotics , Cleverpet , Ctrl Works , Inova Drone , Reach Robotics , Skyfront , Sky Robotics , Skysense , Solenica , and Rational Robotics for the program.

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