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Study: More Than 7,620 Cybersecurity Jobs In San Diego

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A new study, run by a local nonprofit focused on cybersecurity in San Diego, has tallied up the numbers and found that there are more than 7,620 people employed in the cybersecurity industry in San Diego. percent growth from 2014. The group--which also tallied up jobs last year--said the numbers are a 14.7 READ MORE>>.

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Memorang Gets $500K For Flash Card Study Tool

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Los Angeles-based Memorang , the developer of a flash-card based, study tool to help people study for such things as the MCAT, GRE, NBME, and a host of other tests, has raised $500,000 in a funding round, the company is announcing this morning. Both of the two joined startup accelerator MuckerLab in 2014, where they launched Memorang.

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

TechCrunch LA

Most recently, Turchin worked at ServiceNow, which he left in 2014 to launch Astound. A study from McKinsey indicates that 70 percent of companies will bring in at least one automation technology by 2030. It’s the seventh company that Turchin has been involved in around applying technology to help employees, he says.

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Los Angeles Has 5 Percent Of All Unicorns, Says Report

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Los Angeles has 8 percent of all the "unicorn" companies globally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The school said the study companies as a unicorn if they exceeded a value of $1 billion during any month between January 2014 and the end of 2015.

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Are you still flexible enough to be coached?

Berkonomics

Teaching about the five types of resources In my book, “Extending the Runway” (Second Edition, Berkus Press 2014), I explore the thesis that there are five basic types of resources an entrepreneur must exploit in growing a successful business: time, money, process, relationships and context.

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Southern California Biotech Execs Take Stand Against Immigration Order

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The executives, in particular, cited a 2014 study that found 52% of the 69,000 biomedical researchers in the United States were foreign-born. graduate programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)--the source of the biotech industry's ravenous appetite for talent.

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San Diego Sees Strong Cybersecurity Growth As Firms Seek Talent

Xconomy

San Diego’s cybersecurity workforce has grown by nearly 15 percent over the past two years, according to a study released today by the Cyber Center of Excellence, a nonprofit industry group created to boost cybersecurity jobs and technologies in the region. Combs worked previously at the EDC and helped prepare the 2014 report.