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Reflections on 2020: Carey Ransom, Operate

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We made 7 investments in SoCal founders in our first year (out of 8 total), and even the 1 exception has deep SoCal ties and we hope to relocate her here in 2021.

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Unusual Perk For SoCal Technology Firm: Unlimited, Paid Vacation

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In what might be one of the more unusual perks for a Southern California high tech company, LRN , a developer of enterprise compliance and ethics software, has an unlimited, paid vacation policy. The firm's policy recently came to light in a WSJ article.

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Leveraging High-Tech Assets For Your Company's Growth

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Thursday, March 19, 2009 -- Leveraging High-Tech Assets For Your Company's Growth. This dynamic panel will examine strategies to identify and protect your high-tech assets, particularly contexts such as licensing, strategic alliances and joint development scenarios. depending on your business objectives.

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Leveraging High-Tech Assets For Your Company's Growth

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Thursday, October 16, 2008 -- Leveraging High-Tech Assets For Your Company's Growth. How can you protect the high-tech assets that you bring to the table? Who owns improvements to your high-tech assets and the related rights? See [link] (more).

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. Internships.com / Robin Richards - Richards most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, was founding president and COO at MP3.com,

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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

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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. for Row 44 , the Westlake Village-based developer of wireless equipment for commercial airlines. billion invested in Q2.

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