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The Shed is a startup out of Virginia trying to revive the rental-for-everything business

TechCrunch LA

Among the features that the company intends to roll out as it expands is a dynamic pricing capability that will enable manufacturers to wring the most out of their goods when they’re in high demand. LA’s consumer goods rental service, Joymode, sells to the NYC retail investment firm, XRC Labs.

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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

After we typed the first two letters from our computer room at UCLA, namely, “Lo” for “Login,” the network crashed. The internet was designed to promote decentralized information, democracy and consensus based upon shared values and factual information. That’s how the Internet was conceived and nurtured.

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How Blossom Wants To Save Water, Money Using The Cloud

socalTECH

Most controllers out there now are timers, which basically do not react to water demand. Instead, we run a model in the cloud based on the weather and calculate actual water demand, and we adjust the schedule on a daily basis. After that I worked for five years in at Cisco working on consumer networking and enterprise networking.

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How Businesses Can Find Scalable Ethernet Services in Southern California

Southern California Edison Blog

And, since 2012, just six counties in SoCal have seen their gross domestic product increase from $992 billion to $1.26 But SoCal’s growing companies contend with their own set of challenges, including the increasing importance of scalable network solutions. Most businesses start looking for network solutions with brand name providers.

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Make It Work, Now Belongs To Geek Squad

Eric Greenspan

I built CRMs out of Microsoft Access and installed networks. After the demise of Make It Work II in June of 2012, I reached out to see if I could lend some advice or insight from my 15 year run with two companies named Make It Work. I had a few home runs early on and the company grew. We landed some big fish and did really well.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

The top five tournaments for “StarCraft 2″ in the month of June 2012 had combined prize-pools of over $150,000. If you said 6 million (as of April 2012), you’d be close, because JustFab is growing by nearly to 500,000 members a month. In 2012, ShoeDazzle jumped from 3 to 13 million members. Brandon Beck – Riot Games.