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AUGUST 8, 2012

There's been a lot of press about the name "Silicon Beach"--the name the local community has taken up to describe the high tech renaissance happening in Santa Monica and surrounding cities in Los Angeles. However, until now, there hasn't been a mobile app to go with the name. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica High Tech Press Guide 235

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

A new report issued today, detailing technology jobs employment concentration in the United States, shines some light on where the highest concentrations of tech jobs are in the region. The highest ranked was San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos , with 11.1 percent of jobs in technology, ranked at 20. percent of jobs in technology. READ MORE>>.

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Report Santa Barbara Technology Southern California 203

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MARCH 13, 2013

The startup--headed by high tech veterans Tareq Risheq and Mark Thacker--has now racked up 3,087 backers and $363,832 in pledges for its high tech, voice activated device for storing your passwords and personal data.

CTO Coach 180

CTO Coach OCTANE High Tech Mission Ventures 180

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In a big loss for the local high tech community, computer security software developer Websense --based in San Diego--is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas, and is taking 445 jobs with it. payment from the state. The move comes eight months after Websense was acquired by private equity company Vista Equity Partners last June.

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Southern California San Diego High Tech Equity 199

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JULY 24, 2012

Cooley LLP said Tuesday that it has added four partners to a new, Los Angeles office, and also hired one of the most active and connected insiders in the region to head up business development efforts in Los Angeles.

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Technology High Tech Startup Southern California 215

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. He's also a very active angel investor and advisor to local startups. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Technical Review High Tech Venice 215

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. See more insights from the Southern California high tech community in our continued series this whole week! READ MORE>>.

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Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

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APRIL 23, 2013

Despite the level of venture capital activity in Southern California, the region--according to informal discussions with venture capitalists over the years--continues to suffer from a dearth of local, indigenous capital--at least, compared with the hundreds of investors along Sand Hill Road.

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Venture Capital Southern California Capital SoCal 203

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JUNE 17, 2010

The long list of Southern California high tech companies lined up for the public markets just got a little longer this morning, with the addition of Inphi Corp. The high level of IPO activity--if those firms manage to make it to market--would make this year one of the most active IPO years here since the dot com bust.

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Southern California Woodland Hills Thousand Oaks Marketing 178

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MARCH 4, 2013

Technology veterans Tareq Risheq and Mark Thacker are no strangers to the world of high tech startups and angel and venture capital--Risheq was formerly CEO of Celllynx, Thacker was co-founder at Datallegro--but the way they're funding their newest startup is unusual, and a testament to the growing popularity of crowdfunding.

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Orange County OCTANE High Tech Venture Capital 196

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. billion invested in Q2. The largest deal in the quarter was for Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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Southern California Invest Westlake Village SoCal 196

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Silicon Beach, as the white-hot start up market in Santa Monica is referred to, is exploding with activity. For our Insights and Opinions section this morning, we have a contribution from Ron McElroy , the CEO and founder of Real Office Centers , which has rapidly become of the gathering places for the growing Silicon Beach startup community.

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Startup Santa Monica High Tech Education 168

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Kutcher has been a very active investor in high tech companies via his investment company, A-Grade Investments, and has made investments in such companies as Airbnb, Fab, Foursquare, Uber, and others. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Product High Tech Design Activity 153

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JULY 17, 2012

You may not see it here in Southern California's high tech sector--which has been booming, due to a surge of startup and accelerator activity--but apparently, the technology sector has seen its highest level of layoffs in three years, according to a report today. Image courtesy Bigstock.com READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Layoffs Southern California Report 133

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Belmonte is a veteran of Southern California's high tech industry, having previously been CEO and COO At Active Network (ACTV). AutoVitals said that Belmonte helped to grow Active Network's revenue to over $400 million and guided the company to its eventual sale for $1 billion.

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Equity Invest Southern California SaaS 140

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

According to the study of entrepreneurial activity in the United States, LA-Long Beach-Santa Ana had 620 entrepreneurs for every 100,000 people, beating out such areas as New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island (360 per 100,000), San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont (550 per 100,000), and Boston-Cambridge-Quincy (330 per 100,000).

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Entrepreneur Long Beach Report Statistics 147

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

One of those high profile neighborhoods here is Pasadena, home of Idealab, Caltech, OpenX, and many other high tech companies and institutions. So, I thought I''d see if there was an interest here to active a community in town. It used to be 45 minutes away, but now it''s an hour or hour and a half.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

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JULY 18, 2013

On the venture capital side, the most active investors from Southern California were Siemer Ventures (10 deals), Tech Coast Angels (9 deals), Correlation Ventures (8 deals) and Avalon Ventures (5 deals). The second largest sector was biotechnology, which had nearly $148.6M Nationally, the MoneyTree survey found that there was $6.7

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Southern California Venture Capital Tech Coast Angels Capital 187

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. Students are looking actively for internships now, and to get the best students, you want to post internships now.

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Startup UCLA USC High Tech 185

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APRIL 23, 2013

Despite the level of venture capital activity in Southern California, the region--according to informal discussions with venture capitalists over the years--continues to suffer from a dearth of local, indigenous capital--at least, compared with the hundreds of investors along Sand Hill Road.

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Venture Capital Southern California Capital SoCal 145

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

From the conversation gathered around the pool from the movers and shakers of the industry, it seems that--despite the buzz, energy, and activity in the region around startups, there's still some wariness by investors that the industry not over-hype and over-promote what's happening in the area.

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Ventura Santa Monica Idealab Los Angeles 182

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MAY 5, 2010

It's our pleasure today to feature an interview with Yossi Vardi , one of Israel's best known high tech entrepreneurs. What is it about Israel that has made it such a center of high tech and startups? Yossi Vardi: Israel has what a lot of countries have--good universities, well educated people, a high literacy rate, etc.

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High Tech Southern California Writing Conference 150

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

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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Westlake Village Thousand Oaks Startup Ventura 147

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The artists provided exhibit participants an iPad with a custom-designed soundboard with a number of pre-loaded sounds with volume and activate capabilities. One of my favorites (couldn’t find the sign for it) took place in a completely blacked out room, where ambient sounds played from the four corners of the room.

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Long Beach High Tech Startup Organization 95

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JULY 29, 2010

We've dug through our database of high tech companies, web sites, and startups and found four Southern California companies and web sites looking to cater to that adventure traveler in you. . Laguna Beach-based Kijubi is looking to connect travelers with all of those vacation summer activities you were looking for.

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Sites Southern California Technical Review Allegis 153

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MAY 12, 2015

AOL --which has been one of the most active acquirers of Southern California technology startups in recent years--has been acquired itself, by Verizon , AOL and Verizon announced this morning. According to Verizon, it will pay $50 per share for AOL, in a deal worth approximately $4.4

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Userplane Southern California High Tech Activity 100

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MAY 7, 2021

Los Angeles-based Phyn, which develops high tech devices to help homeowners monitor water usage in their home, said it launched a brand new product. The company said the devices connect to its existing product, the Phyn Plus, to automatically active its valve shut-off feature.

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High Tech Los Angeles Activity Product 113

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APRIL 24, 2018

The fund said its co-founder and lead investor is Behzad Kianmahd, the CEO of Maxim Commercial Capital, and co-founder of the Cross Campus coworking space, which has been one of the key hubs of startup activity in the Los Angeles area. READ MORE>>.

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Funding Seed Funding Startup High Tech 113

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MARCH 4, 2010

He is a former Southern California high tech executive, and recently penned this post on his blog, which he gave us permission to reprint here. Synchronicity - NOT: Twitter can only be used to communicate with people who are also on and active at the same time. Next Generation Online Marketing Strategies, a new guide to Web 2.0

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Web 2.0 Guide Southern California High Tech 145

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The OC Tech Alliance , one of the groups supporting the technology industry in Orange County, says it will become part of another local industry group, OCTANe , effective December 31st. The two--who had announced their intent to merge in September--will be merging their various events and activities.

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OCTANE Orange County High Tech Activity 100

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

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SoCalTech Technology Southern California Santa Monica 138

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 billion.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Although he is a charismatic leader with rich and insightful experiences, Dr. Robert''s knowledge of the high-tech, startup world is limited. In fact, in many cases his insights are especially relevant because he is not mired in the conventional wisdom of the tech community.

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Mentor Startup Technical Review Software Review 263

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

ARE YOUR EMPLOYEES BLOGGING YOU INTO BANKRUPTCY?

High Tech 100

High Tech Social Media Social Network Blogging 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The rise of high-tech fitness has taken the industry by storm with everything from wearable fitness trackers to smart jump ropes. No longer content with an overpriced gym that comes with little to no guidance on how to achieve their goals, people are turning more and more to high tech fitness instead.

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High Tech Training Education Research 40

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JANUARY 14, 2020

The company--which is likely the most active acquirer of companies in Southern California's high tech economy--says it acquired FES IQ , a company in the digital media space, and Buffered VPN , a provider of cloud services based in Gibraltar.

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Company Companies Southern California High Tech 100

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Snapchat reportedly is looking at an IPO towards the end of this year or in early 2017.

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Snapchat Temple City Report Ventura 100