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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ Manager, was tenacious and ambitious, but he was musically inept. Brian was instrumental in establishing the Beatles’ career, but he had no input on the band’s production of music. In the same way, investors can be immensely additive to an entrepreneur’s journey, as long as they know the limits of their ability to help. Effective startup investors guide management’s decision process, but ultimately they support the team’s decisions.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Calabasas-based Ixia , which develops networking testing hardware and software, announced this morning that it has launched a new, partner program, specifically aimed at the global market. Ixia said its new Global Solutions Provider Program (GSPP) will help global solutions providers, by offering up support for planning and design, performance and security testing, and more.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The possibilities of the Internet of Things (IoT) has pushed programmers, developers, scientists, and tech experts to create amazing new items and revolutionary new services. Some do it for the potential cash rewards; others do it for the scientific and technological breakthroughs sure to come. For whatever reason, the IoT will likely shape our future in the coming decades, often in exciting and fascinating ways.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based social sharing service Flipagram is powering the release of a new single from the band One Direction , which was released on Firday. Flipagram--whose tools help users share quick, mobile photo and video slideshows--said One Direction's new single, "Perfect", from One Direction's new album Made In The A.M., was released on Flipagram on Friday.

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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Chances are you are curious about drones, if you don’t have one already. Or you have seen them in the air at concerts, sporting events, on the freeway; anywhere is possible. Drones give everyone the ability to become a master cinematographer from the comfort of the ground. They are hot hot hot, and have been known to bring out the inner nerd in everyone.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Worried about the government and others watching your every move? A group says that televisions manufactured by Irvine-based Vizio are providing an unprecedented amount of data to marketers, collecting information on very time you watch TV, what shows you are viewing on both traditional TV and on the Internet, and connecting that all to your IP address to figure out your gender, age, income, interests, and more.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based OpenX has launched support for flexible ad units, increasing the capabilities of its platform, the company said late last week. OpenX said the new support lets advertisers multiple size ad units into a singular auction, which it says will help buyers access inventory in its exchange. The company said the support also helps publishers with yield increases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

How many times have you heard or suspected that a certain entrepreneur was just lucky? Without fully discounting that random good things sometimes happen, I’m a firm believer that great entrepreneurs make their own luck. The smart ones get some extra support early on critical decisions, and work a bit harder on issues that are common startup killers.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Fuze , the latest incarnation of onetime high flying telephony service Callwave, has been acquired by ThinkingPhones > , the two companies announced this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Fuze, which still had offices in Santa Barbara, offered up cloud-based teleconferencing services. Callwave was founded in 1998, had its IPO back in 2004, but moved to San Francisco in 2009.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Santa Monica-based ZoneTV , a provider of services to the pay television industry, said this morning that it has raised $4.1M in a seed funding round. The round was led by BEST Funds. ZoneTV said it provides personal, dynamic TV experiences for pay TV operators, content providers, and audiences. The company is led by Jeff Weber, and has offices in Santa Monica; Toronto, Canada; and Pickering, Canada.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu is looking to sell a stake in the company to Time Warner , according to a report , which would value Hulu at $5 billion. According to the WSJ, Disney, 21st Century Fox and Comcast are looking to make Time Warner an equal partner in the streaming telvision company, to help further Hulu's efforts to compete with Netflix; in addition to cash, Time Warner would bring Hulu more exclusive content, said the report.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

San Diego-based identity risk management software developer ID Analytics has named Eric Lindeen as the company's new Vice President of Marketing, the company announced this morning. Lindeen joins the company from Zoot Enterprises, where he was VP of Solution Marketing; he has served at Zoot since 1998. ID Analytics said Lindeen has more than 25 years of marketing and technology experience.

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