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Taiwanese reassurances that water shortages won’t hit chipmaking show climate change’s direct threat to tech

TechCrunch LA

It is complexity theory made manifest and only serves to show that scalable, data-driven solutions rapidly deployed across large industrial markets are our only hope in correcting the course,” wrote Vaughn Blake, a partner at the energy-focused investment firm Blue Bear Capital. Intel alone used 9 billion gallons of water in 2015).

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

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Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. That network effect is a subtle but has a powerful effect with all this new technology. Big ideas rule the day.

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Early-Stage Valuation

SoCal Tech Calendar

Program Overview: This interactive workshop educates and empowers angel investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in access to capital on a variety of ways to value pre-revenue companies. It will explain three valuation methodologies: the Venture Capital Method, the Scorecard Method and the Risk Factor Summation Method.

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FrameWorks Workshop: Valuation

SoCal Tech Calendar

Through a series of real world case studies and interactive group discussion, this workshop will discuss how valuation relates to intellectual property in licensing, manufacturing and MandA transactions. Thursday, January 10, 2013 -- Corporate Valuations. See [link] (more)

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Respect Competitors and Capitalize on Your Strengths

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are my thoughts on the right steps to prepare for these discussions and how to capitalize on your strengths: Declare and file your innovations early as intellectual property. Use real case studies and customer feedback. Capitalize on team experience and relevant business area strengths.

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Successful Medical Device Company Commercialization

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 -- Successful Medical Device Company Commercialization Without Venture Capital.

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7 Keys To Making Many Millions In A Business You Love

Startup Professionals Musings

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials. Define a business that is scalable.