Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Photo by Filipe Delgado from Pexels We’ve all been in meetings that get off track?—?sinking ever down the proverbial “rat hole,” from which rescue feels impossible. How does it happen? And how can you avoid it? This is part of a series on Managing Boards. In my last post I wrote about board preparation before the meeting and frankly this can be applied to any type of meeting.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Redland-based geographical information systems (GIS) giant Esri announced today that it has acquired indoo.rs GmbH , a provider of indoor mapping software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to Esri, indoo.rs's headquarters in Vienna, Austria will serve as a new research and development center for the company. indoo.rs develops interactive, indoor mapping software, used to map corporate facilities, retail and commercial locations, airports, hospitals, event venues
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Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
It’s a fact of life that a banker, lender or lessor will ask for a personal guarantee from the founder or entrepreneur most every time. But what if you’ve diluted your interest from 100% to something less than 50%? Should your investors expect you to carry 100% of the risk? The short answer is “yes.” Seems unfair, doesn’t it? To most lenders, the guarantee is still a requirement, putting the entrepreneur in a position of additional risk that is not spread among the shareholders.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a vulnerability--now patched--which would have allowed hackers to both view and inject their own video into the Ring Video Doorbell, developed by Santa Monica-based Ring. According to researchers , they were able to figure out a way where they were able to intercept audio and/or video footage from the Ring application, letting an attacker arbitrarily watch and listen to any Ring doorbell, and even allowed a hacker to inject their own video into the Ring's vid
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SoCal Tech Calendar
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 -- ACG101 Food Manufacturers and Distributors. California's agriculture is the most productive and varied in the U.S., owing to the climate, topography, complex systems of water delivery and diverse population of growers in our state. This year, the ACG 101 annual Food and Ag program takes a look at a different aspect of this fertile industry: Manufacturing and Distribution.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Los Angeles-based warehouse robot developer inVia Robotics said on Wednesday that it has named its first Chief Marketing Officer, Kristen Moore. Moore was most recently Chief Marketing Officer and Head of E-Commerce at LifeSeasons, and also had served at Demand Media, FedEx, AT&T, and Lucent Technologies. According to inVia Robotics, Moore has more than 20 years of strategic marketing and communications expertise. inVia Robotics develops warehouse robots, which automatically transport items
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socalTECH
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , which provides both Wi-Fi services as well as distributed antenna systems (DAS), reported its 2018 financial results on Wednesday, saying that its annual revenues rose to a record $250.8M in 2018. According to Boingo, those results were a 22.7 percent year-over-year increase. For the fourth quarter, the company said it had revenues of $67.8M, driven by increases in the DAS, military and multifamily market, as well as wholesale Wi-Fi services.
Xconomy
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Last year was a remarkable year for biotech companies going public. Not only did an unusually large number of biotech companies go public, but a significant number of early-stage biotech companies went public at premium valuations relative to their later-clinical stage peers. There were approximately 58 biotech IPOs in 2018 (excluding offerings with under $25 million of proceeds) for total gross proceeds of $6.3 billion [1], of which a significant number were early-stage companies — either in pr
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
A report, from Variety, says that Disney is looking to buy AT&T 's stake in Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu. No deal has been reached or announced yet. According to the report, Disney is seeking to purchase the portion of Hulu which is owned by AT&T's WarnerMedia unit. AT&T has said in the past that it would like to sell its minority investors in Hulu.
Xconomy
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Eric Schmidt believes we’re entering an era where artificial intelligence will underpin most facets of human life. But we don’t yet have enough people with the right skills to build that future. Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and former executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL ), argues that the A.I. talent shortage is the most pressing challenge facing the industry today.
Xconomy
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Equillium, a biotech that’s looking to develop an antibody drug for immuno-inflammatory diseases, has added a form of renal disease to the indications for which it aims to develop medicines. It’s the latest step in a fast-moving journey for the La Jolla, CA-based company, which raised about $65 million in an initial public offering in October just 19 months after its founding.
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