Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

You may have been a Girl Scout or a Boy Scout in your youth. Certainly you are aware of the top rank in each – the Gold Award for girls and the Eagle badge for boys. Scouting teaches leadership and even if we were not members in our youth, there are lessons for us all. For example, the Boy Scouts of America motto is “Be prepared.” And from that comes training in first aid, disaster preparation, and outdoor skills, planning for events and outings, and any number of simulations or practice runs

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This article previously appeared in Forbes. Citrix's CEO, Mark Templeton, recently shared his insights regarding achieving personal and professional success as part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The underlying theme of Mark's talk was: "Success Isn't What Happens To Other People - It Can Happen To You.". Mark knows a bit about success and what it takes to reach the top of one's industry.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Venice-based ZEFR , the online content provider headed by Zach James and Richard Raddon, has reached 1 billion monthly views of its content, the firm revealed Monday, as part of an invite to supporters to celebrate the milestone. The company--formerly known as MovieClips--offers up content from partners such as Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, MGM, Miramax, Columbia, and others, for online distribution.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Saturday, December 1, 2012 -- AngelHack Fall 2012 LA. Ready to take your big idea to the next level? Then join us for LA's next AngelHack, where winning teams will receive 6-8 weeks of mentorship and be flown into Silicon Valley for a weekend of events including a Global Demo Day to A-list investors and media, Site visits to, Google, Facebook, Google Ventures, VIP dinners, and ragging parties with the Valley startup community.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. In fact, they often claim to be part of the survey group that fears public speaking more than death, but I’m not sure how anyone could validate that survey.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

During the past twelve months we’ve seen (and heard) a great deal of conservation around crowdfunding and what it has brought to an exploding entrepreneurship community. As it’s brought life to numerous new projects while offering entrepreneurs an additional outlet for receiving funding. Crowdfunding isn’t something new, however in the world of startups its brought new opportunities of funding that once weren’t available.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 -- Content Marketing/PR for Start-Ups. Business Wire Los Angeles invites you to join us for a panel discussion on Content Marketing/PR for Start-Ups. Communicators from Allison+Partners, Digital LA, Brew Media Relations, and TechZulu will discuss how traditional PR is evolving. Email mailto: larsvp@businesswire.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

I’ve been advising and mentoring startups and growth companies for years, and find myself always pushing them to try something new, for the sake of growth and survival. When you try new things, you make mistakes, and I’ve seen many. Smart companies learn from their own mistakes, but some don’t pay enough attention to other people’s mistakes. In the spirit of saving you a few lifetimes of pain, here are some common mistakes that seem to happen routinely: Wait until your company is up and growing

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Many people in business think they need to cheat and lie to gain wealth. They call it negotiations, marketing, positioning… Call it what you will, but it has forever been against my moral integrity to be anything other than transparent and forthright. Being a top business woman has been my dream since I was a child watching my parents grow their own businesses.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Santa Monica-based Playsino , which publishes social, free-to-play, casino games, has just passed the one million install mark, the firm announced today. Playsino develops social, casino games which run on Facebook, and is venture backed by IDM Venture Capital, Eric Schmidt (Google), Michael Robertson (MP3.com), Carlos Bhola (Vonage), Kamran Pouzanjani (PriceGrabber), and William Quigley and Jim Armstrong (Clearstone Venture Partners).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 -- Graziadio Alumni Network of Los Angeles presents their Small Business Breakfast Series: New Trends in Mobile and Online Marketing. With the global internet population exceeding 2 billion people and the ?New Media? accounting for 3 times the market value of the traditional ?Old Media?, it is critical to evaluate new trends in online marketing and the ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” Many entrepreneurs stumble at this point, losing the deal or most of their ownership, by having no answer, saying “make me an offer,” or quoting an exorbitant number. I’ve written about this before, but it’s a mysterious subject, and I’m always learning more.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

1. Can you tell me what you do for Gogobot? I am the Gogobot Community Manager of West Los Angeles. I represent Gogobot to our devoted user base and develop relationships with hotels, restaurants, social venues, and travel-related businesses. This helps me bring awareness to the Gogobot brand and promote the experience of travelling. I do this by organizing different types of events every month based on the target markets that I am trying to reach.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Prolific angel investor Jason Calacanis has backed the operator of an online service which provides parents with information about local activities, restaurants, stores, and more, Red Tricycle. Red Tricycle, which is based in Seattle, said it raised $1.5M in a Series A round, which was led led by Maveron, and also included 500 Startups, Richmond Park Partners and zulily, along with Jason Calacanis, Paul Buchheit, Bob Pittman, and Jon Nordmark.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Monday, December 3, 2012 -- Clean and Green Energy Forum. With rising costs of oil and natural gas, we find ourselves in a global movement focusing on a need for cleaner and more efficient energy options. Opal Event's Clean and Green Energy Forum: Investing for a Renewable Future will bring together experts from throughout the country to discuss the most important topics in cleantech and greentech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

What sparks paradigm-shifting innovation in any business? It’s a special mix of entrepreneur and company, regular in every respect except for having the courage and foresight to make an idea happen that was supposed to be impossible. As an entrepreneur in a startup, how do you know if you have this potential, and what are the steps to get from an innovation to a revolution?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Monday November 26 YouTube launched its creators space in LA in a move to reach out to original video creators to meet and share experiences to up their video production. Space For Awesome Original Videos. According to YouTube , ‘The YouTube Space was built for YouTube creators to make original videos for their channels, collaborate with other channels, share experiences, network, attend workshops, screenings, concerts and events, and get invaluable hands-on experience with industry-leadin

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Are you a code warrior? Do you know how to solve any software challenge thrown at you? A newly launch, Los Angeles startup, CodeWars , is looking to create a place where developers can compete, sharpen their skills, and gain the respect of their peers. The startup--founded by Nathan Doctor and Jake Hoffner--says it is building a society where highly talented developers can compete, collaborate, and unite on technical challenges.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Thursday, December 6, 2012 -- GCs in OC: Maximizing Profits within Legal Limits. Broads Circle. Panelists: RACHEL SAGAN; LILY YAN HUGHES, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Ingram Micro Inc.; KATE DUCHENE, Chief Legal Officer/Executive Vice President of Human Resources, Resources Global Professionals; MELODY WILLIAMS DAPP, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Sage Software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Don’t charge the hill until you are “ready.” This probably seems obvious to military types, but I see entrepreneurs violating this rule all the time. They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Needless to say, they usually get shot down, and get no second chance.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 million in a new round of financing from Peter Thiel, FF Angel , Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups , Andrej Henkler (former Bertelsmann executive), and Alexsis de Raadt-St. James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. .

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

One of the more active venture capital firms in Los Angeles, Greycroft Partners , said today that it has closed a $175M, third fund, Greycroft III. The venture firm said its LPs include JP Morgan, BlackRock Private Equity Partners, Fairview Capital, and Invesco Private Capital, along with Hall Capital, Hamilton Lane, Greenspring Associates, and Cambridge Associates and a number of foundations and educational institutions.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Thursday, December 6, 2012 -- LA CEOs in coordination with the LA CTO Forum presents: CEO Pain Points; Working with the CTO. Please join us in a frank, open, and honest discussion with our panel of some of LA?s top CEOs and CTOs. Discover what keeps each other up at night with worry about their key partner in their technology business. How they address these issues and more, resulting in maximum productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the best entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. On the average, the entrepreneurs I know are living on Ramen noodles. But one thing they all seem to have in common is a love for learning and change. They rush in with a passion to better the world, and money is just an indication of their progress.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Below are some take away tips… and the video of the of the panel. Always have a developer do a test project before hiring them to make sure they deliver quality work. One method to negotiate a lower rate or no cost to have a developerwork with you > Pre sell your product.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Southern California entrepreneur Elon Musk has huge success this year, in (literally) getting commercial spaceflight firm SpaceX --based in Hawthorne--off the ground and into space, with a hugely successful set of flights to the International Space Station (ISS). However, it looks like Musk is not just happy with those successes, but is hoping to score another win before the end of the year: the IPO of one of his other companies--solar power financing firm SolarCity.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 -- Global CONNECT Summit. Struggling with access to capital? Looking for proven tactics to accelerate commercialization of innovation? Working on local strategies to grow globally and compete locally? Join the architects of some of the world's leading innovation ecosystems along with visionaries who are growing clusters in emerging markets for this annual two day international meeting in San Diego, California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Being an entrepreneur is scary. Every day we have to make decisions we don’t know are right or wrong and most times we just do our best to trust our gut. Then people like Kevin Winston storm into a city like Superman to save the day and make all our lives just a little bit easier. That’s what Kevin’s conference, Silicon Beach Fest (SBF), did for Los Angeles entrepreneurs.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

San Diego-based wireless technology giant Qualcomm has made a strategic investment in Macheen , a provider of services and technology to provide always-on, connected devices. Financial details of that strategic investment were not disclosed. Macheen is a startup developing service which connect smart devices, including PCs, to Internet services; the firm's services are already being used by such companies as Dell and Lenovo, as an alternative to expensive, mobile broadband plans.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 -- Future of Film Summit. Produced by Digital Media Wire and Variety, this event brings together industry leaders to discuss the current state of the industry, and how film and transmedia deals will be struck in the coming years. This is a unique opportunity for creatives, producers, buyers and film financiers to hear about and discuss current issues relevant to the film industry from top studio executives as well as independents.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal is continuing its international expansion, saying today that it has opened up its first, South American office, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The firm said the new office expands the company into its eleventh country. ReachLocal provides help to local and small businesses to advertise their companies online. The firm said it targeted Brazil as its first country in South America, due to the rapid growth rate in that country; the firm said online advertising spend in Brazil

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

According to numbers released over the weekend by Internet traffic and e-commerce measurement service comScore, online Black Friday sales surged 26 percent from last year, and totaled $1.042 billion. The company said that U.S. retail, e-commerce spending on Friday was the heaviest, online spendin day to date in 2012. The firm tallied sales of $633M on Thanksgiving.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Most startups fail, but some of those startups doing extraordinarly well. How do you figure out if that startup you are interviewing is going to succeed? In our Insights and Opinions section, Nick Hulse , Chief Revenue Officer at Rubicon Project , gives some tips on what to ask and how to figure that out. What's preventing you from finding and joining Start-Ups that will succeed?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Forget just delivering astronauts to space: Elon Musk , the founder of SpaceX , has much bigger plans than just mere transport to space: he wants to build a colony on Mars. Musk said over the past few days that he'd like to transport 80,000 people a year to the Red Planet. Musk first made his Mars colony idea public in London earlier this month, and has been providing more details via Twitter in the last few days.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Santa Monica-based biopharmaceuticals startup ArmaGen Technologies announced Thursday afternoon tha tit has raised $17M in a Series A financing round. The firm said it is developing brain-penetrating recombinant protein therapeutics, which allows biopharmaceuticals to reach the central nervous system more effectively. The funding was led by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, and also included Shire plc, Takeda Ventures, Inc., and Mitsui & Co.

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