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AUGUST 28, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons Building companies is hard work. I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our [.]. Tags: Start-up Advice.
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AUGUST 26, 2009
In what might be some new competition for Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the high profile ad optimization firm headed by Frank Addante, search engine giant Google told its advertisers late Wednesday that it will begin to offer similar capabilities in its AdSense program. Google said it will open its door to third party advertising networks, allowing the ads in those networks to compete with AdWords advertisers for ad space on publishers.
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AUGUST 28, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009 -- Firsty Networking Event. OCTANe. Join the OCTANe community the first Thursday of every month for happy hour networking. They're called "Firsties" (first + Thursday + thirsty), and OC finally has a watering hole. See [link] (more).
Daradiction
AUGUST 25, 2009
Hey gang- Huge BIG favor that might be really easy for you. Do you have any examples of where any sort of civic engagement outreach/campaign affected legislation? I’m looking for more granular examples than a response like “the civil rights movement&# , but more so examples of specific petitions or letter writing campaigns that might have contributed to getting some sort of legislation passed.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 28, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons. Building companies is hard work. I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times.
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AUGUST 25, 2009
Santa Monica-based The Search Agency , a provider of search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and other related online marketing services, has signed on Los Angeles antivirus software company CyberDefender as a customer. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. According to CyberDefender, The Search Agency will manage the company's search marketing campaigns, including search engine marketing and search engine optimization.
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AUGUST 25, 2009
This is part of my blog series “Pitching a VC.&#. I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. There is one classic mistake that I see across both types of meetings – “the tell & [.]. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 25, 2009
This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. There is one classic mistake that I see across both types of meetings – “the tell & sell&# presentation.
socalTECH
AUGUST 24, 2009
Los Angeles-based mobileStorm , the email marketing and digital marketing provider headed by Jared Reitzin, has revamped the company's offerings. The firm said that it now will offer two different product packages for its customers, including "Go", targeted at marketers looking for mobile, email, and SMS marketing tools, and "Pro", with marketing tools aimed at large businesses.
socalTECH
AUGUST 27, 2009
There's a new twist on the neverending battle against viruses and malware today: researchers at computer security software firm Symantec are reporting that they there is now publicly available source code, which hacks the Skype Voice-over-IP software to record audio from any Skype call in progress on a users' computer, and transmit them to an attacker.
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AUGUST 27, 2009
Pasadena-based MyShape , the personalized fashion retailer run by Louise Wannier, has raised $10.5M in a new round of equity funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesday. The filing says the fundraising is part of a nearly $12.1M round. No details on the funding have yet been announced by the company, which is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, the Pasadena Angels, and the Tech Coast Angels.
socalTECH
AUGUST 26, 2009
Fountain Valley-based memory manufacturer Kingston Technology is the centerpiece of an effort by online retailer Amazon.com to use more "eco-friendly" packaging. According to Amazon.com, it has been taking aim at frustrating and wasteful packaging with a new "Frustration-Free Packaging Initiative." As part of that effort, consumers can provide feedback to the firm about how difficult it is to use packaging from manufacturers, and how appropriate Amazon's own packaging is.
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AUGUST 28, 2009
Jason Calacanis, the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based search engine Mahalo , claims that it now has a number of writers who are making over $20,000 a year writing freelance articles for the site. According to Calacanis, the firm is now paying $5 - $10 to writers to write articles for the site, and then splitting revenues from Google AdSense with those writers.
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AUGUST 26, 2009
Search engine giant Google is now pulling more traffic information from local streets around Southern California, saying Tuesday that it has added major traffic arteries and local street data to the firm's Google Maps service. Google is tapping data that the firm is gathering from cell phone users who use Google Maps on their mobile devices; the firm says that it is collecting GPS data from those users, who give it permission.
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AUGUST 26, 2009
Santa Barbara-based Green Sherpa said Wednesday that the firm has officially launched its online personal finance software. The company said that its software offers expense tracking, budgeting, and planning, as well as ways to collaborate with spouses, CPAs, and financial planners. The firm competes against similar Web 2.0 personal finance sites like Mint.com and Wesabe.
socalTECH
AUGUST 24, 2009
Costa Mesa-based Emulex announced today that the firm has signed a multi-year, cross licensing patent deal with IBM. According to Emulex, the deal covers integrating the firm's OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter architecture with IBM's platforms, including its IBM System p, System x, and BladeCenter products. Financial details of the patent licensing deal were not disclosed.
socalTECH
AUGUST 25, 2009
San Diego-based VMIX , a provider of online video publishing tools and related services, said today that it has extended a deal with Raycom Media TV, to add fourteen more TV station sites. VMIX said that an additional 14 television stations owned by Raycom will use its online video solutions. The firm did not disclose the financial impact of the additional customers.
socalTECH
AUGUST 24, 2009
One of the startup areas where we've been seeing renewed activity in the last few months is in the enterprise software space--specifically, in software-as-a-service applications targeted at corporate customers. One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams.
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AUGUST 24, 2009
Two Southern Californians are in the running for $10,000 for their entries into a user generated advertising effort from e-commerce site Amazon.com. According to Amazon.com, it has selected five finalists to compete for the $10,000 in Amazon gift card, plus a trip to a film festival in New York City. Two of those finalists for the Your Amazon Ad Contest are from Los Angeles--David Keenan of Hacienda Heights for his entry "Not Available", and Angela Kohler of Los Angeles, for her entry "Kindlic
socalTECH
AUGUST 24, 2009
Southwest Airlines is expanding the firm's deployment of Wi-Fi service on the company's planes, the firm said late Friday, with a fleetmwide rollout of wireless systems from Westlake Village-based Row 44. Southwest said that the rollout, which will begin in the first quarter of 2010, will include certifying Southwest's full fleet for Row 44's satellite WiFi service.
socalTECH
AUGUST 27, 2009
Monrovia-based Soliant Energy , a developer of solar concentrators, is opening up its new pilot production plant in Monrovia today, saying that the plant will produce up to 1 megawatt of solar panels annually. The firm is having a ribbon cutting on the plant this morning with Congressman David Dreier. Soliant said the new pilot line will result in up to 40 new staff members at the company.
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AUGUST 26, 2009
Thousand Oaks-based Xirrus , a developer of Wi-Fi networking hardware, has scored another education customer, the firm announced today. Xirrus said that Penola Catholic College, located in Melbourne, Australia, has deployed the firm's 802.11n Wi-Fi arrays. Financial details on the win were not disclosed. Xirrus develops Wi-Fi equipment which combines multiple wireless access points and switching, to provide better coverage and higher bandwidth to wireless deployments.
socalTECH
AUGUST 26, 2009
San Diego-based DivX said today that it is powering a download-to-own movie store run by Los Angeles-based FilmFresh.com. According to DivX and Film Fresh, Film Fresh will provide major motion picture titles from Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, all in DivX format. Financial details of the arrangement were not disclosed.
socalTECH
AUGUST 26, 2009
San Diego-based ColdSpark , the email infrastructure provider owned by BakBone Software, said today that it is in an OEM agreement to use Kaspersky's Anti-Virus engine in its offering. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. ColdSpark develops an enteprise email transport platform used by the financial industry, and was purchased by BakBone in May.
socalTECH
AUGUST 25, 2009
Playa Vista-based X PRIZE Foundation now has three teams competing for its Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, the competition which pits teams against an effort to develop a possible lunar lander, the group said today. According to the organization, there is $1.65 million in prize money remaining for its challenge, which is being managed by the X PRIZE Foundation for NASA.
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AUGUST 25, 2009
El Segundo-based iRise , the software visualization firm backed by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and Deutsche Bank, reported another win today. The firm said Canadian firm Evoco, a developer of project management and software for construction and facilities management, is now using the firm's products for visualizing and testing its next generation products.
socalTECH
AUGUST 24, 2009
Los Angeles-based Gorilla Nation reported Monday afternoon that it has signed on World Wrestling Entertainment as a client. The firm, which provides advertising sales representation to web publishers, said it is now the exclusive, North American digital sales representative for the WWE, and will augment WWE's existing sales and sponsorship teams for its WWE.com and WEEKids.com web site.
socalTECH
AUGUST 24, 2009
Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a developer of a system for sending electronic mail to postal addresses, announced today that it has raised $8M in a funding. The firm said the funding came from Art Bilger of Shelter Capital Partners; Rick Braddock of Fresh Direct; Micahel Eisner of the Tornante Company/formerly of Walt Disney; Bill Guth of Guthy-Renker, and Donn Rappaport, the firm's CEO and founder.
socalTECH
AUGUST 27, 2009
Costa Mesa-based storage adapter firm Emulex reported this morning that the firm has scored a design win with IBM, on a adapter for IBM's BladeCenter HS22 blade servers. The firm said that it will provide its technology for a 10Gb/s Ethernet NIC for IBM, as part of the Virtual Fabric Adapter CFFh for IBM BladeCenter. Emulex had disclosed it had signed a patent cross licensing deal with IBM earlier in the week, covering the technology behind the adapter.
socalTECH
AUGUST 26, 2009
Beverly Hills-based Hydra LLC , an Internet advertising company which has been seeing major growth in the last couple of years, has apparently hit a major snag, as the company has become embroiled in lawsuits associated with the departure of three of the four founding partners at the firm. According to a report in the Los Angeles Business Journal, the lawsuits stems from the firing of three of four of the firm's founding partners--Doug, Jason, and Adam Walker--by CEO Zac Brandenberg and investme
socalTECH
AUGUST 26, 2009
Santa Monica-based Outcast , an operator of at-the-pump digital displays, said this morning that it has inked new content partnerships with CBS, CNET, and HGTV. Financial details of the content relationships were not disclosed. Outcast runs a network of digital displays at gas stations, which feature both content and advertising. The firm says it now has 12,600 of its screens deployed.
socalTECH
AUGUST 25, 2009
Today's Insights & Opinions piece comes from Krisztina Holly , the vice-provost for innovation and executive director of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation at the University of Southern California, and Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO of Gallup. How can we be expected to grow and create jobs, many executives wonder, when we are shrinking? Despite a slight easing on the unemployment rate, a quarter million Americans lost their jobs last month, and job prospects for those out of work look b
socalTECH
AUGUST 25, 2009
San Diego-based Awarepoint , a developer of real-time location systems for the healthcare and other industries, has appointed Dr. Dennis O'Leary as its Chief Strategy Officer. O'Learly was most recently President of The Joint Commission, and has previously served as Dean for Clinical Affairs at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and Vice President of the George Washington University Health Plan.
socalTECH
AUGUST 24, 2009
El Segundo-based iRise , a developer of software visualization tools, said today that it has been adopted by market research firm BuzzBack Market Research. The firm said that BuzzBack will be using its visualization software for developing new web-based product ideas. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. iRise develops software used to mock up web-based applications, before actual coding and development.
socalTECH
AUGUST 24, 2009
San Diego-based Sorenson Media , a developer of video encoding and decoding software, announced this morning that it has signed on Seoul-based Chips & Media as a licensee. The firm said that Chips & Media will use its software development kits to provide video decoding on Chips & Media's silicon. Financial impact of the license deal was not disclosed by the companies.
socalTECH
AUGUST 27, 2009
Aliso Viejo-based Transcepta , which develops electronic invoicing services, said Wednesday that it has partnered with credit card payment processing firm Transcom, which is a division of Merchant e-Solutions. Transcepta said the relationship allows accounts payable departments to use corporate purchasing cards to pay invoices in its system. Transcepta is backed by the Tech Coast Angels, and offers electronic invoicing products used to eliminate paper invoices.
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