socalTECH

MAY 18, 2016

Accruent , the developer of real estate, facilities, and asset management software which was founded by Mark Friendman, has been acquired by private equity investor Genstar Capital. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

I find the over-introducers especially corrosive around first-time founders who often struggle with the balance of their time between tasks like building product versus tasks like speaking at conferences or meeting with potential business development partners. It starts seemingly innocent enough.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Carlsbad-based SynergEyes , a developer of hybrid contact lenses, announced Friday that the firm has raised $13.3M SynergEyes said that the round was led by De Novo Ventures, and also included Bio-Star Private Equity Fund along with prior investors Alloy Ventures, Delphi Ventures, InnoCal Venture Capital and Windward Ventures.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2009

Irvine-based Aktino , a developer of hardware for the telecom industry, has been acquired by a Canadian firm, Positron, Inc. Aktino develops carrier class, MIMO over Discrete Multitone (DMT) technology, which is used for Ethernet and DS3 over copper.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2009

Los Angeles-based Mojix , a venture backed developer of RFID technology, said this morning that it has released a new, software product targeted at RFID asset and process management. Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures and InnoCal Venture Capital. Financial terms of that deal were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Mojix develops hardware used to extend the reach of current RFID systems, and is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and InnoCal Venture Capital. Mojix said its new multiple port Mojix eNode product provides lower cost and more reliable RFID deployments.

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Innocal Venture Capital Software Los Angeles 100

Berkonomics

JANUARY 9, 2020

You should be clear from the start that no one at your company may offer a job to any current employee of a stakeholder – a customer, a partner in development or in distribution, or of a supplier. State your policy clearly. My story of an employee over the line.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. At my first company, which was based in London, we decided to set up a development facility in India. He also had experience in setting up tech development centers in India. Let me explain.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2010

Applied Minds is the stealthy research and development outfit backed by Kleiner Perkins and also based in Glendale. A lot of us have been in situations where we've shared various things with people--and usually, innocently, have them forward it around, reposted it, and done a lot of things you wish they hadn't done. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

You should be clear from the start that no one at your company may offer a job to any current employee of a stakeholder – a customer, a partner in development or in distribution, or of a supplier. And without a policy or sometimes without thinking, your employee responds with a “Let me help,” or worse yet, “I have a position open.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

The bad news is that patent trolls can squeeze the lifeblood out of innocent and unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the current mess around Lodsys patent No.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com), a firm which is taking experience originally garnered by the firm's technology team in developing -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market. Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and Innocal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2010

This would include removal of defaming items that have been published maliciously about innocent victims and companies, and just plain errors in data which may harm your company or your personal profile. These items can kill your business career, as you may remember from the example in Google Results are the Measure of an Entrepreneur.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2016

Based on the military family background, John innocently asked about Sally’s birthplace simply out of curiosity. So here’s my two cents worth to save lots more over time: develop a good list of questions, ask others in your company to give you feedback, and consider consulting with an employment attorney.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

After listening to hundreds of startup pitches, and reading even more business plans, most new venture investors develop their own favorite list of “red flags” that signal the beginning of the end of their interest.

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