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Kumbaya Joins Off Grid Solar Energy Group

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Rancho Palos Verdes-based Kumbaya , a startup developing devices that combine solar power, batteries, lighting, TV and radio, and a computer designed for deployment in third world countries, says it has joined the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA). Mike Freni is founder and CEO of Kumbaya. READ MORE>>.

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Jazz Semiconductor, ADSANTEC Get Win At NASA

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Newport Beach-based Jazz Semiconductor and Rancho Palos Verdes-based ADSANTEC , a fabless semiconductor design firm, said today that the companies have been selected by NASA for designing a SERDES ASIC.

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What Would it Look Like if Elon Musk Pitched a VC Today?

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This week I attended the All Things D Conference in Ranchos Palos Verdes. He said he wanted to found this company (he had founded a previous company that sold for about $300 million) because he thought the Internet was a big idea. It is always a stellar event. But Elon Musk stole the show. by Dorrian Porter.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

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.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Kumbaya Adds To Board

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Rancho Palos Verdes-based Kumbaya , a startup which is working on a device which combines connectivity, power, and content to "off-grid" communities--particularly in third world nations--said it has named Ms. Kay Ellen Consolver to its Board of Directors. Consolver has worked as an executive at ExxonMobil for more than 20 years.