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Tortuga Logic, Co-Founded By UCSD, UCSB Profs, Raises $2M For Hardware Security

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Tortuga Logic , a new startup focused on chip-level cybersecurity technology whose founders include professors from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, has raised $2M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Thursday. The seed funding came from Eclipse Ventures.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. Yet as obvious as it is to create messaging for your company, many people don’t consider their personal brands.

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Version 0.9. What Do You Think?

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What do you think of the design elements? When commenting please state if you have specific skills in visual design, copy or similar. If you’re in LA and looking for somebody to do project-based marketing jobs – Jacqui’s your lady (not to mention a fellow UCSD alum!). What you’d like to see added, removed or changed. Navigation?

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Nuvve Connects Into Grid Balancing Efforts

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According to Nuvve, it has begun use the 5MWh lithium battery, originally designed to manage campus energy peaks, for bidding into wholesale energy markets.

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Biolinq Adds $4.75M to Advance Glucose Monitoring Biosensor Patch

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Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme. The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). no lost wages) or whose companies sponsored them.

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