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Why A Prominent Startup Executive Wants You To Fail, Get Fired And Focus

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Article first published as Why A Prominent Start-up Executive Wants You to Get Fired and Fail on Technorati. Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. With over 700 customers, OptionEase has become the leading enterprise class SaaS solution for stock option and equity compensation tracking and compliance.

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Zui.com Launches New Social Networking Features

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Zui.com , the kid's website focused on providing screened content and information to kids, is expanding its services today, saying that it has launched "Facetube", which combines the best social sharing aspects of Facebook with the channels of YouTube. The new, curated environment allows kids to socialize around age-appropriate content, and is aimed at providing a more appropriate environment for kids to socialize in, instead of Facebook.

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Milken Institute Global Conference

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Monday, April 30, 2012 -- Milken Institute Global Conference. Set for April 29 through May 2 in Los Angeles, the 2012 Global Conference will bring together the diverse worlds of business, finance, policy, education, health, energy and philanthropy to come up with fresh solutions to the globe's biggest challenges. The Global Conference has become an important venue for thought leaders in a wide range of disciplines to present their views before a high-caliber audience with the resources to get th

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Interview with Lane Soelberg, WePlay

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If you're a family with kids in sports, how do you share all those videos, photos, and other memories about your kids games? Where do you organize and share all the information about your team's games? Los Angeles-based WePlay (www.weplay.com) is hoping to be the site for all of that, and more. The firm--which is backed by such investors as Derek Jeter, Peyton Manning, LeBron James, and Jennie Fince--is headed by CEO Lane Soelberg , who spoke to us a bit about what the firm's up to.

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

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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Spotlight on Personalized Medicine in Southern California

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Monday, April 30, 2012 -- SoCalBio Networking Forum in the Inland Empire: Spotlight on Personalized Medicine in Southern California (Showcase and Expo).

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Punchcard Links With Local Marketing Group

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Pasadena-based Punchcard , the developer of mobile loyalty applications which is headed by Andy Steuer, said today that it has signed an agreement with KDA Group , a local marketing agency. Punchcard said the agreement authorizes the agency--one of the largest in the U.S.--to sell, manage, and promote Punchcard's products. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

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SocialAnnex Backed By Who's Who Of SoCal Angels

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Los Angeles-based SocialAnnex , a startup helping online retailers to use social media to spur sales, has scored a round of funding from a who's who of Southern California technology angels, the firm said Tuesday. According to SocialAnnex, Kamran Pourzanjani of PriceGrabber.com, Brian S. Lee of Legalzoom.com and ShoeDazzle, Jody Mulkey of Shopzilla, and Lawrence Ng of Oversee.net have all invested in the site.

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Diving Into Google Drive

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Google Drive is a cloud-service for files that offers 5GB of space to use however you wish right out of the gate for free. The first question that came to mind, personally, was “How do I get more if I need to?” The simplest answer isn’t “spam your friends on Facebook and Twitter to get’m to use your referral code”, it’s “show me the money” Apparently, Google just piggybacked the Google Drive storage space expansion off the already existing Pi

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DataPop Raises $7M

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Los Angeles-based DataPop , the developer of advertising targeting technology headed byJason Lehmbeck, has raised $7M in a Series B funding round, the firm said today. The funding was led by MK Capital, and also included prior investors Rincon Ventures, IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures, and Accelerator Ventures. Lehmbeck said that the new funding round will go towards expanding its L.A. offices and doubling its staff.

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Digital Hollywood

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Monday, April 30, 2012 -- Digital Hollywood. See.

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CODA Inks EV Development Deal With Great Wall Motors

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Santa Monica-based CODA Holdings , the developer of electric vehicles and battery systems, announced today that it has inked a contract with Chinese automotive producer Great Wall Motors Company , to jointly develop an all-electric vehicle for the worldwide market. CODA did not detail financials behind the deal, but said that the two will co-develop a new vehicle designed for the North American, Chinese, and European markets.

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Businesses Forget How to Listen to Customers

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It seems like many business people are becoming so technology addicted to their iPhones and email that they forget to listen to what their customers want, or even forget to ask. Attention spans have compressed to seconds, and face-to-face conversations, with the hugely important body language, are avoided in favor of texting and anonymous Internet surveys.

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Clearstone Portfolio Firm Cetas Acquired By VMware

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Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures has had another exit in its portfolio, this time with the acquisition of Cetas , a developer of cloud data analytics software, by VMware. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Cetas was incubated in Clearstone's Palo Alto offices by Sudhakar Muddu, a Ph.D. from UCLA. The acquisition is the third acquisition involving either EMC or VMware from Clearstone's portfolio, including Muddu's last company, Kazeon (acquired by EMC in 2009), and IT ma

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Amgen Re-Ups On miRagen

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Amgen Ventures , the venture capital arm of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen , has re-upped on an investment in a biopharmaceuticals developing microRNA-based treatments for cardiovascular and muscle disease. According to miRagen Therapeutics, it has raised $20M in a Series B, which was led by Remeditex Ventures, and also included Amgen--an existing investor sin the company--along with Atlas Venture, Boulder Ventures Ltd., and Broadview Ventures. miRagen is based in Boulder, Colorado.

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Amgen Founding CEO George Rathmann Dies

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George Rathmann , the founding CEO of Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen , has died, the company announced late Monday evening. Rathmann served as founding CEO of Amgen from 1980 to 1988, and was Chairman of the company until 1990. Rathman helped secure Amgen's venture capital funding and guide Amgen to its IPO, as well as growing the company to one of the largest biotech firms in the world.

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NetDNA Launches SSL Product

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Los Angeles content delivery network (CDN) provider NetDNA said today that it has partnered with GlobalSign , a provider of online security products, to launch a new secure sockets layer (SSL) certification product. According to the two, the new offering provides one-stop, SSL certificates for NetDNA's content delivery network, based on a low monthly fee.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Expands Board

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Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of cloud-based talent and human resources management software, said today that it has added Steve Singh, CEO of Concur Technologies, to its board of directors. Concur is a provider of travel and expense management software for the enterprise market. Singh also has served at Symantec. Cornerstone OnDemand is headed by Adam Miller.