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The San Diego Angel Conference, an angel investing effort which is run by the University of San Diego (USD) School of Business, says it has made investments in five companies at its conference this year, worth a total of $500,000. ucsd investment capital venture company angel diego
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As a rule of thumb, a company with a majority owner in control will be required to provide such a guarantee for most any borrowing of significant size in relation to assets. A win-win for the investor and entrepreneur assuming the company does grow and have a liquidity event someday.
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According to HONK, it has signed up Wawanesa Insurance, and will manage the roadside assistance program for the insurance company. HONK says that Wawanesa is ranked the number one insurance company in California for customer satisfaction, according to J.D. Los Angeles-based HONK Technologies , which is developing an app that helps provide roadside assistance to users, has signed up an insurance firm as a customer.
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Los Angeles-based J2 Global said this morning that it has acquired one company, and divested two. According to the company, it acquired HowLongtoBeat, and divested City Numbers and Callstream. HowLongtoBeat is an online website that lets videogame players track the playtimes of their games. City Numbers and Callstream are both part of J2 Global's UK cloud services business. Financial details of the acquisition and divestitures were not announced.
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Most entrepreneurs quote a resource for market size but fail to then take the next step to eliminate all parts of that market unreachable by the company or product. But many decisions were made within my company walls, and surely by competitors, based upon those numbers.
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It may seem redundant to say that a company focused on creating virtual reality experiences is ahead of the curve, but that’s precisely the case for West Adams-based Survios Inc
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She stated that she had rejected the investment being discussed, because in her mind the entire company was “just a button, on a feature, in an app.” If you have invented a game that will be marketed as a new app in the app store, have you created enough of a model to create an ongoing company, or just another app that will compete with the millions already in the store? The post Can you build a company, not just a product?
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Pepperdine’s Graziadio Business School announced the winners of its second annual Most Fundable Companies competition
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Years ago, when I was CEO of my record manufacturing company in Hollywood, I happened to walk around the plant into the press room just as Bobby, one of the employees’ favorite coworkers, was offering stolen merchandise to his fellow pressmen from a bag he was carrying. How your decisions affect your company. How you comport yourself in these situations is absolutely the litmus test for how your company culture will reflect your actions.
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In many areas of the world, there may be no more precious commodity than water — and that’s especially true in Los Angeles
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Support.com, a publicly led outsourcing company led by Los Angeles resident Lance Rosenzweig, who serves as President and Chief Executive Officer, says it has merged with a bitcoin mining company, Bitcoin Miner Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. Acording to the company, the merger will create the first, publicly traded bitcoin mining company that owns its own power plant.
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AUGUST 3, 2020
Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong’s NantHealth Inc., which uses data analysis and artificial intelligence technology to assist physicians and improve patient outcomes, is going even more high tech
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Although it takes place at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show is a key event for technology companies and startups based in Los Angeles
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has acquired military tech company Spear Research Recently formed El Segundo-based Pacific Defense Strategies Inc.
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San Diego-based driving safety and monitoring systems provider SmartDrive Systems announced this morning that it has signed up Superior Paving, a large asphalt paving company on the East Coast, as a new customer. smartdrive paving company driver safety fleet auto automotive transportation
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For the Consumer Technology Association, the show must go on
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“Intrapreneurs” are entrepreneurs inside big companies, who do corporate spin-offs. A spin-off is merely a startup spawned by a mature parent (company), and conventional logic would dictate that it has a survival advantage over the lowly startup.
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Social platforms and media content creators in Los Angeles are leveraging their influence to encourage voting by Gen Z and millennial audiences as registration deadlines approach
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Holographic technology startup PORTL Inc. announced $3 million in seed funding
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The problem in taking such money rests in the legality of taking money from non-accredited investors, people who do not meet the SEC standard for making non-public company investments. Does issuing a PPM insulate the company? How it happens.
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Glendale-based artificial intelligence company Beyond Limits Inc. has raised $113 million in a Series C funding round with another roughly $20 million committed
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A report, published Friday, says that the Las Vegas hyperloop system being built under the Las Vegas Convention Center by Los Angeles-based The Boring Company will will not meet passenger throughput requirements of the contract. The report said that only 800 passengers an hour are allowed on the company's Convention Center Loop per station, which would dramatically limit how many passengers could be transported through the system.
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