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John Greathouse: What I Learned In 2014

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Over the holidays, we''re featuring a few reflections on 2014 from some of the movers and shakers in Southern California''s technology industry. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? Didn''t learn it in 2014, but several times over the year we were reminded that a great team can make chicken salad out of chicken $hit.

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Announcing the 2014 socalTECH 50: Southern California's Ones To Watch

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Thanks to our readers, who helped to suggest people to include in this list, as well as our nominating committee, a group of insiders in the industry who helped us to make sure we had good exposure to the people who are making waves in the community. 2014 dfr2014 event list founders startup socaltech socaltech50' READ MORE>>.

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YouTube Star PewDiePie Earned $7M In 2014

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In what helps prove the increasing importance of content on YouTube, popular Youtuber PewDiePie revealed this week that he earned more than $7M in 2014 , thanks to payouts from YouTube.

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CLU's Gerhard Apfelthaler: What I Learned In 2014

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We''re continuing to feature reflections on the last year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community, and today have thoughts from Gerhard Apfelthaler , who is Dean of California Lutheran University''s School of Management , which has been very active in Ventura County helping to promote startup and entrepreneurial activity.

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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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Our last (belated) one is from Kevin Winston , the founder of Digital LA , the big networking group which helps to connect Silicon Beach through an extensive lineup of events. My most significant event of 2014 is definitely Silicon Beach Fest, the multi-day tech community fest, which just keeps getting bigger. I like events.

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Howard Marks: What I Learned In 2014

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After investing in 60 startups, we realized that the biggest pain point was to help them raise the first $1M in financing. We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014?

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Led by LA-based March Capital, Astound raises $15.5 million for employee help desk automation services

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Astound , a company selling automated employee help desk services, has raised a new round of $15.5 It’s the seventh company that Turchin has been involved in around applying technology to help employees, he says. Most recently, Turchin worked at ServiceNow, which he left in 2014 to launch Astound.

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