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APRIL 21, 2016

I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by F’ing up at my first company.

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APRIL 21, 2016

Newport Beach-based Acorns , the developer of a mobile app which turns your spare change into investments in an exchange traded fund (ETF), has raised $30M in a new funding round from PayPal and Rakuten, the company disclosed today. The startup, led by Walter and Jeff Cruttenden, takes spare change from a user's debit and credit card purchases--rounding up those purchases to a whole dollar amount--and invests those into an ETF for the user.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 21, 2016

Dave’s note: This week we again welcome my co-author of “Get Scrappy” to give us some of her sage advice in only a way she could express it. You’ll enjoy her style and message… By Kim Shepherd. It’s great to get good reviews and hear positive feedback. positive is good. But negative is powerful. Don’t get me wrong: the glass is half full.

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APRIL 21, 2016

Santa Monica-based secure messaging provider TigerText said earlier this week that it has begun offering up its secure, enterprise messaging technology to customers of U.S. Cellular. According to TigerText, the secure messaging allows those customers to meet security and confidentiality required by legal and regulatory standards, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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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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APRIL 21, 2016

The United Talent Agency (UTA) is one of the backers in a new, software-driven influencer marketing startup called Captiv8 , which announced a funding round this morning. Captiv8 said this morning that it had raised $2M in a funding round, from Social Capital, United Talent Agency (UTA), Subtraction Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Social Starts, Lone Wolf, and Jason Calacanis' LAUNCH Fund.

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APRIL 21, 2016

Aliso Viejo-based Microsemi reports this morning that it has received an early termination of the waiting period of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Act, of its $300M divestment of its board level systems and packacing business. Microsemi is selling that business to Mercury Systems, Inc., for $300M in cash. Microsemi said the deal still is subject to other, closing conditions.

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APRIL 21, 2016

El Segundo-based GoGuardian , a developer of digital learning software, said today that it has launched a new product to help schools manage their deployment of Chromebooks. GoGuardian said its new product, GoGuardian Fleet, is aimed at helping educators manage large numbers of Chromebooks, and allowing administrators to manage what content students can access, and other aspects of those devices.

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