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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I had to laugh a bit reading it.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
San Juan Capistrano-based OptionEase , a developer of software-as-a-service for managing stock options and fair value accounting and compliance, announced today that it has raised another $1.0M in venture funding in its Series A round, bringing the total to $3.5M. The round came from Miramar Venture Partners. Bruce Hallett of Miramar joins the firm's board as part of the funding.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
This is a reposting of a ‘classic’ popular post. Bro – abbreviation of “Brother&# , meaning friend or dude. A term of endearment used to denote a familiarity beyond a casual friendship. In the world of Big Dumb Companies (&# BDC&# ), there is little likelihood you will establish a professional relationship with someone outside of your company that goes beyond a casual friendship.
SoCal Tech Calendar
SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009 -- Open Web Application Security Project OC Local Chapter Meeting. The Rise of Threat Analysis and the Fall of Compliance, Policies, and Standards in mitigating Web Application Security Risks On August 5th of 2009, Federal prosecutors on Monday charged Albert Gonzales with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the United States: 130 million credit cards numbers by hacking into the systems of Heartland Payment Systems, the New Jersey-based card
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&#. I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. Many people agreed and added that even the best sales meetings are also discussions and not pitches. A few weeks ago I sat through two very contrasting presentations and wrote this blog post right afterward.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Last month, AccessDNA (www.accessdna.com) announced it had raised a seed round of funding for the firm's shopping engine for genetic tests. We sat down with Lee Essner , the firm's CEO and founder, to chat about the company. Essner was most recently EVP at WeddingChannel.com, and he tells us why he thinks now is the right time for the firm's services.
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009 -- Take Command: 10 Leadership Principles I Learned in the Military and Put to Work for Donald Trump. AccessEN. Guest Speaker Kelly Perdew - CEO of RotoHog and Winner of "The Apprentice" 2nd season. Although known to the public mainly as the winner of the second season of the NBC hit TV show The Apprentice, and as the author of the critically-acclaimed book Take Command, 10 Leadership Principles I Learned in the Military and Put to Work for Donald Trump, Kell
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series, “ Start-up Lessons.&#. Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it. My starting line with every entrepreneur is that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned from F’ing it up on my first business. I even put that in the the preamble to my Start-up Lessons outline.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
San Diego-based Overland Storage reported earlier this week that it has hired on Christopher Gopal as the firm's Vice President of Worldwide Operations. Gopal was most recently COO for Applied Solar; he has also served as VP of Worldwide Operations at Dell, was a senior partner at Ernst & Young's Global Supply Chain & Operations Consulting Services, and has served at SAIC and Unisys.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
photo courtesy of Atlanta Braves. This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC.&#. The “Triple Play&# of VC Presentations. A large part of my series has been outlining what the typical VC PowerPoint presentation should look like. Some readers have commented that in today’s world you shouldn’t even need a PowerPoint presentation – in this era you should always just demo your product.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Cerritos-based Direct Drive Systems , a developer of high speed motors for the oil and gas industry, has been acquired by Houston-based FMC Technologies, FMC said earlier this week. According to FMC, it will pay $120M for Direct Drive Systems, which makes components used for pumping natural gas pipelines, offshore platforms, and for the subsea processing market.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
A Santa Barbara-based firm Clairvoyant Energy , is behind a plan to revive an idled, Ford Motor Vehicle plant in Michigan, according to an announcement from Ford Thursday. According to Ford, it is selling its Wixom Assembly Plant to two firms--Xtreme Power, based in Texas, and Clairvoyant Energy, of Santa Barbara--to create a renewable energy manufacturing park.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Irvine-based Kofax , a developer of document management software, said over the weekend that it has acquired 170 Systems , a venture backed provider of financial process automation software. The deal was worth $32.9M. 170 Systems is based in Boston, Mass., and has about 140 employees; the firm was venture backed by Polaris Venture Partners. Tags: systems 170systems software acquisition merger kofax.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
eduFire , an startup which offers online video classes, apparently has relocated to Menlo Park from Santa Monica, after raising $1.3M in a Series A funding. The firm's web site now lists Menlo Park as its headquarters, after it raised funding from Battery Ventures, Western Technology Investment, and angel Gokul Rajaram. The firm's CEO, Jon Bischke, did not respond to emails for comment.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Carpinteria-based ValenTx , a developer of medical devices for addressing morbid obesity, announced today that it has raised $22M in a Series B financing round. The round was led by SV Life Sciences, and also included Covidien Ventures, Sapient Capital, EDF Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Affinity Capital Partners, and TGAP Ventures. The firm said the funding would go towards clinical and regulatory development and commercialization.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Pasadena-based LeisureLink , which operates a service to help distribute specialty lodging listings to travel sites, reported today that the firm has more than doubled its revenues from last year. No financial details were released, however, the firm said that the boost in its revenues comes from web site ABetterStay.com , which is operated by LeisureLink.
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
Chatsworth-based DataDirect Networks , a developer of storage systems, is pushing the limits of density for storage systems, saying earlier this week that it rolled out a new system which packs 1.2 petabytes of disk capacity into a single rack. The high density storage system is leveraging 2 terabyte, SATA hard drives to reach the new density level.
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
San Diego-based RoyaltyShare , a provider of royalty tracking for online music sales, reported earlier this week that it has signed on Nettwerk Music Group, a Canadian record label and artist management company, as a customer. No financial details of the win were disclosed. RoyaltyShare said that Nettwerk Music will use the firm to manage its digital sales, processing, and tracking mechanical and artist royalties.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Santa Barbara-based Occam Networks said Thursday afternoon that the firm has settled a class action lawsuit, which was filed against the firm in 2007. The company said it will pay $1.7M as part of a $12.66M settlement, the remainder of which will be coming from Occam's insurers and another defendant. The lawsuit stemmed from a financial restatement made by the firm in October of 2007.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Santa Monica-based SharesPost.com , which recently launched a marketplace for private company shares, said Wednesday that the firm has inked a deal with Advanced Equities. According to the firm, AEI brokers will be available to assist SharesPost members who need help marketing the shares in private companies; the deal also allows clients of AEI to have better control over resale of shares on SharesPost's bulletin board.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Huntington Beach-based BridgeCo , a developer of semiconductors for entertainment electronics, said today that it is selling off its Switzerland-based operations and company, which handles the firms ProAudio and BeBoB business. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed. BridgeCo's ProAudio and BeBoB business developed hardware for audio processing for musicians.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Irvine-based Integrien , a developer of IT analytics software, announced today that it has added Carol Dingle, most recently VP Product Development and Shared Services at Digital Insight/Intuit, to its technology advisory board. Dingle spent the last 12 years at Digital Insight serving as VP Operations and Infrastructure. Integrien is backed by Acartha Group, Clearstone Venture Partners, and the Tech Coast Angels.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Los Angeles-based CyberDefender , a developer of PC antispyware and antivirus software, reported today that it has appointed Brian Yoder as its new Vice President of Engineering. The firm said that Yoder was an early member of the Peter Norton Computing/Symantec team, and has been a software developer since the late 1970's. CyberDefender explained that Yoder has also been involved in a range of companies developing software development tools, video games, and automatic language translation syste
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Santa Ana-based MSC.Software , a developer of simulation software, reported today that it has received a new offer to acquire the company from another private equity firm. According to MSC, the new offer is priced at $8.00 per share, above an agreement announced in July to acquire MSC at $7.53 per share in cash by Maximus Inc. and Symphony Technology Group.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Thousand Oaks-based Nexsan is taking a new angle on getting customers to buy its disk storage products, saying Wednesday that ita has qualified for a program with the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) where its customer can gain incentives from the utility, for implementing its power-efficient storage products. Nexsan said that customers who buy its SATABoy and SATABeast disk storage systems, which include its AutoMAID technology for automatically powering down disk drives, can get e
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Calabasas-based network testing equipment firm Ixia said today that the firm has begun to offer a combined, large scale wireless network testing solution for long term evolution (LTE) networks, out of the firm's June acquisition of Catapult Communications. The firm said its products now offer wireless testing for large scale LTE (long term evolution), UMTS, IMS, and CPRS/EDGE networks.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Los Angeles-based Mobile-XL , an angel-backed developer of mobile phone applications, said today that it has linked with telecom carrier Orange in the country of Cameroon. According to Mobile-XL, Orange will offer the firm's XLBrowser software to customers starting in October. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. Mobile-XL is developing SMS-based mobile applications specifically geared towards areas with limited or expensive internet access.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
San Diego-based Entropic Communications reported yesterday that the firm has inked a deal with NXP Semiconductors, on a joint set-top box reference design. The firms said they have created a set-top box reference design for the satellite, cable, and IP set-top-box market which uses Entropic's single-chip, Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) chips. The design provides a reference for a digital video recorder.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of software for managing cloud computing infrastructure, said Wednesday that it has rolled out its first commercial offering, focused on enterprise customers. Eucalyptus said its new Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EEE) software allows its customers to create their own, cloud computing infrastructure using VMware's vSphere, ESX, and ESXi virtualization software, as well as Xen and KVM.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , which provides a platform for corporate webcasting, said today that it has been selected by mutual fund firm American Century Investments. According to Accordent, it will provide its system to allow the company to webcast to its employees, including quarterly "town hall" meetings and monthly management meetings.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Agoura Hills-based THQ , a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software and video games, announced Monday that it has appointed Edward L. Kaufman as Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs, and Corporate SEcreatry. Kaufman was most recently EVP, General Counsel, and Secretary at World Wrestling Entertainment. He has also served at Hanna-Barbera and NBC.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Santa Barbara-based 15desks , a developer of software-as-a-service for educators, said this morning that the firm has launched a new product for course management. The firm said its product will allow educators, students, parents, administrators as well as others share resources, get information about grades, and other educational information. The firm said it is privately funded, and first launched in 2007 at the University of Santa Barbara.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the space rocket venture headed by Elon Musk, reported Tuesday afternoon that it has gained a contract to launch an Earth observation satellite from Astrium. Financial details of the contract were not announced. SpaceX said that the launch will occur on its Falcon 1e launch vehicle, with the satellite payload coming from either Astrium or subsidiary Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL).
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
San Diego-based Novatel Wireless has deployed the firm's mobile hotspot product, MiFi, in Singapore, the firm said over the weekend. Novatel said that MobileOne, a mobile operator based in Singapore and associated with Vodafone, is offerings its mobile hotspot product to consumers in the country. Novatel's MiFi--which is being heavily promoted by Verizon--allows users to create their own, personal Wi-Fi hotspots using a cell phone connection.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Irvine-based WiSpry , a developer of RF CMOS chips for the wireless market, announced today that it has added Kari-Pekka "K.P." Wilska to its board. Wilska is the former President of Nokia North America. Wilska also serves on the boards of BlackSand, Brightpoint, 724 Solutions, and Mavenir Systems. READ MORE>>. Tags: wispry executive cmos.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
San Diego-based DivX said today that it has signed a license agreement with Panasonic Corporation, covering the firm's HD codec technology. DivX said that Panasonic plans to include its DivX Plus HD technology into a line of semiconductor chips, intended for use in digital TVs, Blu-ray disc players, and in-car players. Financial details of the license were not disclosed.
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