socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

How do you crack the code and make online video easier to find and use? Last week, Los Angeles-based Chill (www.chill.com) made a stab at that, debuting a new front page meant to guide user to the most interesting videos on the web, through an easy-to-use interface. Brian Norgard , co-founder of Chill, sat down with us to talk about the new front page, and also how the company has made a name for itself with a highly product focused, agile development of its service.

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JULY 30, 2012

This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Thus, I was inspired when I heard about the impact collaboration-in-the-cloud innovator Central Desktop made at the April 2012 San Francisco ad:tech conference.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

An executive’s job is not easy, nor is there much time in a typical day for outreach of any kind. Especially in a growing company, the CEO is drawn into daily process issues by all of his or her direct reports, often responding to questions and problems, leaving little time for strategic thought. And that behavior results in leaving little time for outreach to the most critical possible component in your chain – your key customers.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 3, 2012

Monday, August 6, 2012 -- Digital LA, TCIO and UKTI are teaming up in London for a panel on how the Olympic Games are using digital and social media. This year's Games has been called the most digital / social / mobile yet, with BBC streaming on Facebook, games-related apps, athletes using Twitter, and more. We'll discuss how startups and other digital partners have created games-related apps and digital tools.

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Advertiser: Aggregage

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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JULY 31, 2012

One of the most anticipated IPOs of a Southern California technology firm, LegalZoom is expected to hit the markets Friday, with pricing expected Thursday evening. The firm--which recently set its expected IPO pricing range of $10 to $12 per share--is one of two IPOs expected this week by technology companies. The company is aiming at the New York Stock Exchange, hoping to trade under the symbol LGZ.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 1, 2012

The following guest post is from Courtney Englert, Customer Success Intern at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. I am a Board Member and an investor in The Resumator via Rincon Venture Partners.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 3, 2012

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 -- Revolutionizing Music Education With Chromatik. Huge Los Angeles. Digital education startup Chromatik has made a strong debut in Southern California with its unique approach to learning, practicing, and performing music.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

One of the big questions in the content world has been: what's the right formula to make content creation profitable on the Internet? And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? We spoke with John Mudge , CEO of iBN Sports (www.ibnsports.com), to learn more about the Lake Forest-based company's success in making content pay on the Internet, and how his company's relationship as one of YouTube's Premium Channels is helping with that

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

For those who haven’t heard of what Startup Weekend is all about, it’s building a company on STEROIDS! From visualization to conception, and actually taking the product to market, a company usually takes about 1-2 years to create. We had exactly 54 hours! This story highlights my experience at the event as a participant. . Pitch and form teams! Friday Night, people started trickling in at Coloft at 6pm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2012

If your first startup fails, you are about average. Most entrepreneurs fail on at least one attempt. Investors agree that an entrepreneur who has never failed probably hasn’t pushed the limits. What investors look for is not that you never fail, but that you learn from the failure, maintain a positive attitude, and work with integrity on the next one.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 3, 2012

Thursday, August 9, 2012 -- Startups Uncensored #29 - Eventbrite Co-Founders Kevin and Julia Hartz. Eventbrite is an online service that people everywhere use to create, share, and join any event imaginable. Eventbrite enable's event creation, promotion and ticket sales. They help people discover events that match their passions. And they let everyone share the events they're creating or joining, bringing more people together around the world.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2012

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online small business resources site led by Jason Nazar, is looking to bolster its video content with more content around small business subjects. In an email to supporters, Nazar said Monday that the company is looking to partner with experts, to shoot courses around such subjects as getting customers, learning online software, marketing, raising money, and other business topics.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

Yesterday Viddy, the social video sharing site announced the launch of their public API for developers to build around the platform and come up with new ways of sharing video. To top it off they also announced a “Rule the Beach: Hack Your Way into Viddy” developer competition in a blog post : …Team Viddy would like to invite you to join the Silicon Beach community, by entering our “Rule the Beach: Hack Your Way into Viddy” Developers Competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. The result is they get no feedback, no credibility, no visibility, and no investors until months later than they expect. I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 1, 2012

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 -- Advanced Social Media School. It's time to take your social media knowledge to the next level. Attend class and learn about ifttt, paper.li, Quora, Rebel Mouse, Glossi, Dropbox, the Google Office Suite and other platforms and apps. This will make you more productive in your personal and professional lives. Email Amani@woodsidemediagroup.com.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

A local, Ventura County based college appears to be in the early stages of exploring starting an engineering program, to help local employers and employees. According to a survey sent out through a local professional engineering organization this morning, a local college is exploring whether it would be meaningful to the Ventura County community to start an engineering program to service the needs of employers in the area.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 30, 2012

Exciting news for the Los Angeles Tech scene last week as Apptopia closed a $1 million dollar round of funding. The Santa Monica and Boston based online marketplace for mobile apps had their recent round led by none other than Mark Cuban. Of the one million raised Cuban himself both in $500,000 showing his excitement and belief in the booming company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2012

In business and startups, a “sense of urgency” is a good thing. Yet many entrepreneurs confuse this with a “sense of emergency,” which insidiously saps the life from their business. Urgency comes from a greater purpose focused outward, to make good things happen, while handling emergencies is a reactionary inward approach to saving ourselves from the daily crisis.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 1, 2012

Saturday, August 4, 2012 -- PMI OC August 2012 Advanced Topics Seminar. Dave Cornelius, a veteran information technology solutions consultant and doctoral candidate, will lead a half-day workshop August 4, 2012, on how to lead global teams successfully as part of the Project Management Institute Orange County Chapter?s Advanced Topics Seminars. Presentation topics will include understanding culture, effective communication, and adapting methods and best practices, as well as break out sessions t

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has gotten its wish: NASA wants it to send astronauts to space. SpaceX said Friday that it has won a $440M contract with NASA, to develop the successor to the Space Shuttle, to transport American astronauts to space. Delivering astronauts to NASA to space has long been a goal of SpaceX and its founder, Elon Musk, as it has been developing its spaceflight capabilities.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 3, 2012

Last week we told you about Viddy’s new public API for developers. Viddy also announced another program, The Rule The Beach. Today we bring amazing news for Silicon Beach entrepreneurs apart from the $10,000 prize. TechZulu caught up with Nate Redmond managing partner of Rustic Canyon and he tells us what is happening in the LA Tech Scene. Are companies moving down to Los Angeles away from the Silicon Valley?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

I often hear the qualms of business-smart but non-technical entrepreneurs, wondering if they really have a chance in this high-technology marketplace. I tell them that if their idea or solution is technology intensive, they clearly need technology strength on the team. Then the question becomes “How do I evaluate and attract the best technical talent?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 1, 2012

Thursday, August 2, 2012 -- Agilent Series on Mobile Comms Design Flow Challenges and Opportunities from RandD to Validation. The Semiconductor SIG presents. Agilent Series on Mobile Comms Design Flow Challenges and Opportunities from RandD to Validation.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2012

Los Angeles-based Viddy , the developer of mobile apps which allow users to share snippets of video with one another, said this week that it has rolled out its public API, and is offering $10,000 in cash and a trip to Silicon Beach for the best app built using the product. Viddy--which has been compared to Instagram, except for video--opened up an application programming interface which allows developers to access videos out of its public stream, organized by tag, on Monday evening.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

Ross Levinsohn the then interim CEO has today left Yahoo. Ross Levinsohn was appointed interim CEO after a resume flaw was found on the then CEO Scott Thompson. Levinsohn has left Yahoo and has not revealed his next task yet. He leaves after the Yahoo board chose Marissa Mayer as new CEO by passing him again. Levinson’s exit was not unexpected, the board had earlier by passed him for Scott Thompson.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are entering the mainstream for mobile users, but I’m not sure why. So far, it’s been just another mobile phone app that tells people where their friends are ( Foursquare and Facebook Glancee ). Marketers see it as a better way to target customers, but the current consumer offerings have been slow to deliver.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 1, 2012

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 -- Los Angeles Clean Technology Council Conference. Our keynote speaker is Tom McGrath, Founder of LABS Renewable Energy. Tom will present "A Disruptive Technology-Converting Waste Into Energy With Fuel Cells." See product demos and learn about new ventures. Network with hundreds of entrepreneurs, CEOs, dealmakers, investors, JV partners, technical/business advisors, developers and marketing professionals.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

Looking for more help to get your startup off the ground? Coloft , the co-working space in Santa Monica, said Wednesday that it has launched its own series of seminars aimed at startups, ranging from help on social media, to business development, to pitching investors. The Coloft Academy 's presenters include such Los Angeles entrepreneurs as Tyler Crowley (This Week In Startups), Chance Barnett (Crowdfunder), Shannon Drake (JustFab.com), Robyn Ward (Glossi.com), and many others.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

Today Chris Jones,Microsoft Windows Live VP has unveiled what he says is a modern email for the next billion mailboxes. He says in a blog post ,” We’ve also been hard at work on a mission to reinvent personal email – from the datacenter all the way to the user experience”. Still in its preview Outlook.com is expected to rival Gmail and put to rest its own service hotmail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

Contrary to what most of you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity over the last few years is not Gen-Y young upstarts, but Baby Boomers in the 55-64 year age group. In fact, according to a study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, these Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom. Some people are calling entrepreneurship the ‘new mid-life crisis’ for the 76 million-strong demographic once thought to be over the hill.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 30, 2012

Monday, July 30, 2012 -- Tech Coast Angels Open Forum. Listen to Angels, Investors, Venture Capitalists and Catalysts and what they have to say about investing and being investor ready. Pitch your business, idea or concept through live video feed and hear feedback from industry veterans. Ask questions and learn. Special Guests, Ken Pickar and Ash Kumra.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2012

John Payne is a experienced entrepreneur, who has run two, public Internet companies -- Stamps.com and Day Software -- in addition to helping to run a number of startups. He's now head of Los Angeles-based Zumbox (www.zumbox.com). We caught up with John to learn about what Zumbox is up to nowadays in the digital postal delivery area, after Series C round announced by the company earlier this month.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2012

GoPro , the maker of the popular, wearable, waterproof, sports action cameras for consumers, is planning an IPO, says a report Tuesday afternoon from Reuters. The report-- citing sources near to the company --said that GoPro has hired JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Barclays Plc to manage the offering. GoPro--although based in the Bay Area--has a number of Southern California ties, including staff in San Diego, an investment from Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures, plus a group in San Diego it acqu

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

Burbank-based Magic Ruby , a new service aimed at the social television segment, said today that it has launched to help provide revenue for advertisers, content creators, distributors, and app developers. The firm said it will offer up its own advertising network aimed at second screen applications, plus tools and application development specifically around the second screen.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2012

Thousand Oaks-based Xirrus is looking to help wireless network designers to implement its wireless arrays, with a new software tool released today. The firm said it has launched a new Wi-Fi Designer application, which allows users to plan wireless networks, by matching signal levels and band requirements for mobile devices like iPads, laptops, and smart phones.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2012

Hollywood-based tech incubator and co-working space io/LA 's sister effort in San Francisco has just scored its first exit, after incubator firm CodeEval was acquired this morning by HireVue. CodeEval develops online tools which allow non-technical recruiters and managers to quiz potential employees on their software coding skills. HireVue is a developer of online recruiting and video interviewing tools.

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