Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

The hardest thing about starting a company is that from day one you emerge as this completely vulnerable entity trying its hardest to project success, power, trajectory and inevitability while you secretly know that you’re one knock-out blow from extinction. Think about it: You start with nearly no money, you bring on some co-founders and if they quit it could completely derail your mission, you talk to journalists who if they decide to be cranky can ruin your reputation, you pitch investo

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JULY 30, 2015

Anyone who has ever had to try to schedule an appointment to see the doctor know how much of a hassle it is to get those appointments set up, take time out of work to get you or or you family to those appointments, and sit in a waiting room forever for your turn. How about if there was an alternative? Los Angeles-based health startup Heal (www.getheal.com") has come up with its solution to that problem--a smartphone app driven service, which lets you schedule an on-demand, in-home visit with a d

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. In 1987, a representative of Michael Jackson approached the modest Sycamore Valley ranch house and knocked on the door. The owner of the ranch was shocked by the visitor’s message. He told the homeowner that he represented someone who wanted to purchase the ranch at a substantial premium over its current fair market value.

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Berkonomics

JULY 30, 2015

Editor’s note: Berni Jubb was an Inc.500 entrepreneur, after years as a senior marketing manager of a large computer company. He regained his senses, and now runs a small resort and restaurant in Costa Rica. By Berni Jubb. My First Startup…. …never started, nor did my fifth or sixth. My desire to run something stirred inside me early in life, but the first real entrepreneurial adventure finally took hold after a lot of failed experiments.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 31, 2015

HTC is planning to release its extremely well-received virtual reality headset Vive to consumers later this year, possibly in November. In the meantime, the Taiwanese company is busy building out its VR ecosystem. HTC disclosed that it spent almost $10 million for a 15 percent stake in WEVR, an open VR platform and community based in Los Angeles. Read More.

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JULY 31, 2015

Los Angeles-based a href="[link] Wireless is extending its coverage into Houston's TDECO Stadium, in a deal with the University of Houston Department of Athletics. According to the University of Houston Department of Athletics, it has reached an agreement with Boingo to enhance the wireless service at TDECO Stadium, by using Boingo's Distributed Antenna System (DAS).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 29, 2015

rhubarb studios announced today a collaboration with Mayor Eric Garcetti’s #techLA Summer of Civic Hacking to marshal the best talents of LA’s technology sector to address some of the city’s most pressing challenges. This event serves as a kick-off for rhubarb studio’s hackathon series, “Hack for Humanity,” which seeks solutions for public good in the private sector.

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JULY 30, 2015

Irvine-based storage-as-a-service provider Zadara Storage said this week that it has extended its footprint to Korea, through a relationship with local South Korean reseller EbizTech. EbizTech provides system integration and cloud storage services. Zadara develops a hardware product, the Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array, which helps customers shift to cloud storage--either in the public cloud, or locally as a private cloud.

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Tech.Co

JULY 27, 2015

The first graduates of the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program in LA will be celebrated this Tuesday, July 28th. The program was a success thanks in part to support from AT&T. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will deliver the keynote address. The Summer Immersion Program is a seven week long intensive computer science course for girls who are sophomores or juniors in high school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

Every entrepreneur needs a value proposition statement for his or her startup that can hook potential investors and partners in less than a minute -- the short time you might join them in an elevator on the way to their offices. This may sound easy, but every investor I know is frustrated by wasted time listening to rambling, emotional pitches that are not to the point.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 27, 2015

Rise and shine to an all new Tech W(rap). From $10 wifi service to remote control mice and live streaming with GoPro via your mobile device this is episode 4 of the TechZulu Tech W(rap). Produced by PodShare’s Elvina Beck and Kera Package for July 20-26, 2015. Referenced Stories / More Info :: AT&T Buys Direct TV: [link]. Stephen Hawking is doing AMA: [link].

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JULY 28, 2015

Irvine-based Kareo , the developer of cloud-based software used to manage medical practices, said this morning that it has raised $55.4M in a new funding round. The funding was led by Montreux Equity Partners, and also included Silver Lake Partners and the company's existing investors. Kareo, which is led by Dan Rodriguez, offers up cloud-based software used by small and other independent medical practices to manage all of their billing and operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

Failure. It smells. People are afraid of it. It’s like cancer. When you have it you find you who your true friends are because they’re the ones who double down on helping, on being available, on listening, on understanding. Most people run from failure or disease because they’re hard to handle. Hard to know how to deal with. But I am attracted to those who have had severe set-backs in life because it tells you something about the mettle of the person with whom you’re deal

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2015

Every entrepreneur realizes that building a great team is critical to the success of his or her startup, but many don’t realize that it takes more than multiple qualified employees to make an effective team. It’s possible, or even likely, that a set of skilled individuals can result in a dysfunctional team, where contention, jealousy, lack of communication or work habits jeopardize results.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2015

YouTube is an amazing video sharing site that is home to millions upon millions of videos from all over the world. There are many ways to become one of those famous YouTubers, but it does not come without hard work and dedication. A following is needed for a channel to become popular on YouTube. Sometimes the tips that mean the most when it comes to gaining subscribers are the most simple, such as being sure that the YouTube channel caters to more than one language.

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JULY 30, 2015

Los Angeles-based Rhubarb Studios , a new startup accelerator and incubator downtown, has announced a weekend long "hackathon" focused on figuring out solutions to California's drought. According to Rhubarb Studios, it will host a 48-hour hackathon from August 21s to 23rd in its Hack for Humanity , to allow hackers, makers, and problem solvers to invent technology and solutions to address the water crisis.

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Berkonomics

JULY 28, 2015

September 21st, 2015 marks the sixth anniversary of publication for BERKONOMICS , the blog containing insights for business management, entrepreneurs, and investors. Starting with just 4,000 circulation in 2009, BERKONOMICS has grown to well over 100,000, and is read on five continents by an audience that is 45% female. One third of its readers are aged 25-34.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2015

You can’t survive as an entrepreneur without resilience, because you are going to fail at least once, maybe multiple times. That’s the nature of trying something that’s never been done before. Resilience means not giving up, and being energized by what you have learned. As Thomas Edison said, "I have not failed. I have just found ten thousand ways that won't work.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 27, 2015

Without a doubt, SQL is very important and very beneficial in the business environment. However, not many know where to start or even comprehend the basics of SQL. The important thing is learning basic skills of database manipulation using SQL as the programming language. The perfect starting point in SQL training includes a number of levels. However, the important thing is ensuring the course taken is perfect in getting one started with SQL.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2015

Tired of being the tech support person for your parents? Los Angeles-based HelloTech.com , a provider of in-home technical support and sales help, said Tuesday that it has launched a brand new site to help people purchase home technology services and products for their parents. The new site, BuyYourParents.com , is aimed at adult children and caregivers with "Boomer" parents, offloading the training and support needed to help get technology products installed.

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JULY 28, 2015

Irvine-based RF semiconductor developer RFaxis has rolled out a new reference design with fellow chip maker Silicon Labs , to support a new Internet-of-Things application. RfAxis said its RF front-end reference designs connect with Silicon Labs' ZigBee and Threat EM35x mesh networking products. Those products are used in deploying Internet-of-Things mesh networks, and those reference designs are used by engineers to design their own versions of equipment which connects into those networks.

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JULY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based online retailer Newegg said this morning that it has scored another win over what it called a "patent troll"--and has launched a 24-hour flash sale on its site in celebration. Newegg said it won a patent infringement lawsuit file against the company by TQP Development, which had claimed Newegg infringed upon a patent covering basic online encryption.

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JULY 27, 2015

Carlsbad-based Dealstruck , the online small business lending site led by Ethan Senturia, said this morning that it has raised $10M more in a funding round. The funding came from Community Investment Management LLC. In a related move, Dealstruck said it has added Robert Riedl as its Head of Capital Markets; Riedl as previously COO of Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc.

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JULY 31, 2015

Los Angeles-based FreedomPop , the free broadband wireless and cellular services provider led by Stephen Stokols, disclosed Thursday that it has raised $10M more in a funding round. The funding came from Asian mobile carrier Axiata, as well as an un-named technology investor here in the U.S. The funding deal with Axiata includes an agreement to expand FreedomPop's services into Asia.

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JULY 31, 2015

Los Angeles-based Thrive Market , which operates an online, membership-only health food service, has raised $30M in a funding round, the company said this week. The funding was led by Greycroft Partners, and also included Scripps network, Powerplant Ventures, and angels. Thrive Market offers up health food, bath and body products, kids and baby products, hoem goods and more on its online e-commerce site, with a focus on healthy and natural products.

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JULY 29, 2015

Los Angeles-based crowdsourced content startup Tongal has linked up with Nokia , to promote the creation of a virtual reality film project through its program, the companies said today. According to the two, the new virtual reality project, Look Around You , will challenge creators to develop 120-second shorts that bring virtual reality stories to life.

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JULY 27, 2015

Los Angeles-based Android gaming console maker Ouya has been acquired by San Diego gaming accessory marker Razer , the two disclosed this morning. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Ouya--which had launched its Android console to great fanfare back in 2013, scoring funding from such high profile backers as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures, and Occam Partners--had in recent months been looking for a buyer.

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JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. One of the side effects of the war over Flash, has been with advertisers--particularly in Hollywood--who rely on Flash to help display their advertising banners and video to users. One company which has been working on solving the Flash problem is Los Angeles-based Addroid (www.addroid.com).

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JULY 31, 2015

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media , the viral, user-generated video clearing house, has raised $2M in a funding round from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, according to the company. Jukin said it will use the funding to give it "financial flexibility" and growth. Jukin's other investors are BDMI, Maker Studios, Karlin Ventures, Peter Guber, Allen DeBevoise, Richard Wolpert, Brad Zions, Canyon Creek Capital, Kombo Ventures, and Launchpad LA.

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JULY 31, 2015

Los Angeles-based Sayer , a new mobile app startup, said Thursday that it has launched its social polling and predictions app, backed by $1.1M in seed funding. Sayer said its iOS app lets people share their opinions and make their own predictions on topical questions, and weigh in on different topics. Sayer is led by Patrick Davis. Source of the seed funding, which was received earlier in the year, was not announced.

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JULY 29, 2015

Los Angeles-based TeleSign , which provides two-factor phone- and mobile-based identity verification systems for many major Internet services, has rolled out a new software development kit (SDK). TeleSign said its TeleSign Auto Verify SDK helps mobile app developers streamline the account verification process, without the need for one time passcodes.

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JULY 30, 2015

Santa Monica-based Fuisz Media , which develops interactive video technology, has raised $10M in a Series A funding, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Evolution Media Partners. Ross Levinsohn and Ian Doddy have both joined Fuisz Media's board with the funding. Fuisz Media develops software which automatically identifies objects and people in a video, and links those objects and people to purchases and other links.

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JULY 31, 2015

Los Angeles-based WEVR , which is developing virtual reality capture tools, has raised $10M in funding from HTC , HTC said Thursday. HTC said the investment vies it 15 percent of WEVR. HTC said that it paid $5.7782 per share for 1,730,642 shares of WEVR's Series B preferred stock. WEVR is led by Neville Spiteri, who previously was CEO of online interactive digital studio Wemo Labs, which was behind the online interactive title TheBlu.

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JULY 28, 2015

The National Transportation Safety Board says that the fatal accident of a test flight of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo vehicle in October of 2014, was due to premature feathering of the vehicle's braking system. The crash--which occured on October 31, 2014--resulted in the death of the co-pilot and serious injuries of the pilot, and destroyed the SpaceShipTwo.

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JULY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based YP , the online business listings provider, said today that it has launched a new dashboard product specifically for business owners. The new product, ypPresence Starter , helps business owners share content with consumers, engage in social media, and more from a central location. YP said the tool connects into such sites as Google+, Yahoo Local, Yelp, and Facebook.

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