Berkonomics
JUNE 16, 2016
Dave’s note: Our guest author this week is Kevin McDonald, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Alvaka Networks, a network services and security firm in Irvine, California. He is a trusted technology and security consultant and public policy advisory to some of America’s most influential people and organizations. .
InfoChachkie
JUNE 16, 2016
A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Entrepreneurs create their own jobs, why shouldn’t they also create their own degrees? As described in Should Millennial Entrepreneurs Skip College? , most young entrepreneurs benefit greatly from the college experience. However, off-the-shelf majors are typically not suited to the eclectic skills required to succeed in the startup world.
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socalTECH
JUNE 16, 2016
Los Angeles-based Appetize , which develops tablet-based, enterprise Point-of-Sale hardware and software for venues, said on Thursday that it has scored a win in Minneapolis. The company said that the new, U.S. Bank Statdium in downtown Minneapolis will use the company's products as its exclusive, POS solution. The new stadium is home to the Minnesota Vikings.
Tech Coast Venture Network
JUNE 16, 2016
Graham calls it “doing things that don’t scale” because part of the definition of a startup is having a scalable technology. So what has changed? Playing Startup. Doing a startup is relatively popular. You know it is when universities start offering “entrepreneurship” programs. As is true for all things popular, there are people who actually do startups and those who play startup.
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socalTECH
JUNE 16, 2016
Los Angeles-based private equity investors Gores Group and Platinum Equity said this morning that they have backed Data Blue , an Atlanta provider of storage, backup and server virtualization and consolidation solutions for the enterprise market. Size of the investment was not announced. The Gores Group investment came via Gores Small Capitalization Partners.
Tech Coast Venture Network
JUNE 16, 2016
Graham calls it “doing things that don’t scale” because part of the definition of a startup is having a scalable technology. So what has changed? Playing Startup. Doing a startup is relatively popular. You know it is when universities start offering “entrepreneurship” programs. As is true for all things popular, there are people who actually do startups and those who play startup.
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SoCal Tech Calendar
JUNE 16, 2016
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 -- Decline of Pollinators Threaten Worlds Food Supply. Clean Technology Council. William Lewis, Past President, California State and Los Angeles County Beekeepers Association explains why many species that promote the growth of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of food each year face extinction. Pollinator insect species are threatened, including 16 percent of vertebrates like birds and bats.
socalTECH
JUNE 16, 2016
Venture investment firm Greycroft Ventures , which has an office and is very active in Los Angeles, has led the investment in Performance Horizon , a San Francisco digital marketing software developer. Performance Horizon said that it raised $15.4M in its Series C funding, which was led by Greycroft Growth, along with Mithril and DN Capital. Performance Horizon develops digital marketing software which is used for partner and performance marketing.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JUNE 16, 2016
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 -- The Roadmap to Commercialization: Building Your Customer Base Through Discovery and Validation. Tritech SBDC. Why is the right business model critical to your venture start-ups success? Can a bad value proposition kill your business? How well do you really know your target customer? As a founder, your Heros Journey will be fraught with numerous obstacles, uncertainty, fear and doubt.
socalTECH
JUNE 16, 2016
Saavn , an online, Indian music streaming site which operates in both India and the United States, said Wednesday that it has raised a round of strategic funding from Los Angeles angel investor Guy Oseary. Size of the investment round was not announced. Oseary, along with Ashton Kutcher, are the principals behind A-Grade Investments, which has invsted in such companies as Uber and Airbnb.
L.A. Business Journal
JUNE 16, 2016
Greycroft Ventures leads funding for Performance Horizon, Vow To Be Chic picks up critical investment, Indian streaming company finds an angel in Los Angeles, and more.
socalTECH
JUNE 16, 2016
Santa Barbara-based LogicMonitor , which develops IT infrastructure monitoring software, is announcing a gigantic, $130M funding round today, from growth equity fund Providence Strategic Growth (PSG). PSG is the growth equity funding arm of Providence Equity Partners. The funding is a huge, vote of confidence for LogicMonitor, which said it will use the funding for global market expansion.
Xconomy
JUNE 16, 2016
What does it take to build a startup in today’s market? Put a half-dozen entry-level tech entrepreneurs together anywhere outside of the Bay Area, and it won’t take long before they start listing the local market deficiencies. In San Diego, the complaints often focus on the relative scarcity of venture capital and hometown VC firms. So when the San Diego Venture Group recruited Mark Suster of Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures to give the keynote talk Tuesday night for Startup Week San Diego, mo
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 16, 2016
Computer Vison Startup Nanit If you follow me on Snapchat ( msuster ) you might already know that I’ve been looking at and investing in a number of companies in the computer vision space. My thesis is that it will become a major I/O computing metaphor or as this field is sometimes referred to HCI ( human-computer interaction ). Today I am so excited to announce our latest investment in the category — Nanit — which is a smart baby monitor.
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