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AUGUST 3, 2016

Los Angeles-based pet sitting marketplace DogVacay has announced its first, DogVacay Scholarship, a $3500 award which was open to any, entrepreneurial student either entering as a freshman to college in the Fall of 2016, or a student currently enrolled at a university. DogVacay said it awarded its first scholarship to Dusty Lynn Shipley, 19, of Arlington, TX, for her idea of an underground water detection system that would use soil-moisture levels to regulate sprinklers and save water.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 -- ExecTec. Scarcity of Choice is Good for You! As odd as it seems the more choices you or a user faces, the worse the outcome. I blame 31 flavors which took a simpler time when ice cream was a simple treat on a hot summer day and made it into a customize experience.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

San Diego-based Renovate America , the provider of residential clean energy financing programs, said this morning that it has acquired CakeSystems , a developer of home energy modeling and auditing software. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. CakeSystems was previously owned by nonprofit Earth Advantage. The companies said that Renovate America acquired both the codebase and intellectual property assets of CakeSystems, which it said has the "most accurate, fastest, and easiest" energ

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 -- Intro to React - Javascript LA Meetup. General Assembly. As many of you have heard, React.JS is one of the hottest JavaScript frameworks right now in our industry. JavaScriptLA will be giving a presentation on how one can get started with React, as well as some of the features and benefits of using the framework (especially for those of you thinking why React vs Angular or 'just using JQuery').

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Los Angeles-based Sensay , a developer of chatbot technology, has raised $4.5M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Greycroft Partners, Sweet Capital, NHN, Draper Associates and other. The startup says it has created a "peer-to-peer chat bot" which helps connect people across SMS, Slack, Kik, Telegram and Facebook Messenger.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Sensay raises $4.5 million, Time Warner purchases 10 percent of Hulu, Machinima coming to Amazon Prime, and more.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

In May and June, the financial industries that serve low-income Americans began to change in big ways. First, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed new rules for payday lenders. The first banned lenders from withdrawing money directly from their customers’ bank accounts, while the second restricted their ability to lend by imposing credit limits.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

San Diego-based Sorrento Therapeutics says it has entered into a new joint venture, with South Korean company CHA Biotech Co., Ltd. (CBT), to develop and commercialize "natural killer cell" therapies developed by CH Biotech. According to Sorrento, both CBT and the company will contribute $2 million each to the new joint venture, which will give CV a 51% stake in the new joint venture, and the remaining 49% being owned by Sorrento.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2016

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Rather than quitting, there are always alternatives, like pivoting the business model or merging with new partners for support. Either could improve the statistic that most startups fail within the first five years.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Calabasas-based Ixia is in the midst of a sales team shuffle, saying in its quarterly report that it is naming Patti Key as Senior Vice President, Global Sales, with current sales VP Hans-Peter Klaey leaving the company. Ixia said that the firm and Klaey have "mutually agreed" for him to step down from the position. Key has been VP of Sales, Americas since August of 2014, and had joined Ixia in 2008; she also had served at Agilent Technologies and Hewlett Packard.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

San Diego-based semiconductor developer Qualcomm said this morning that its Snapdragon processors are being used by Samsung, for its upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note7. Qualcomm said that Samsung has selected its Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, plus the Qualcomm Adreno 530 GPU, Qualcomm Hexagon 680 DSP, and Qualcomm Haven as the basis of the tablet. The new Samsung Galaxy Note7 ships on August 19th.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

San Diego-based Cubic Transportation Systems , one of the business units of Cubic Corporation, said yesterday that it has been awarded a $33M contract from the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTPW). The company said it will help modernize Miami Transit's revenue management systems and back office services, my migrating them to the cloud, adding contactless payment and Near Field Communications (NFC), and other features to the transit system.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Time Warner has taken a 10 percent stake in Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu , the companies said this morning, and also has inked a deal to add TNT, TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, truTV, Boomerang and Turner Classic Movies to Hulu's new, upcoming live streaming service. Financial details of the investment were not announced.

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