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Jeff Cohn , the founder and CEO of Syndicated Maps (www.syndicatedmaps.com) previously helped start up the Tech Coast Angels' efforts and company screenings in Los Angeles. He gives other entrepreneurs advice about making a startup successful, and what he's learned over the years of bootstrapping his own startup. Syndicated Maps runs such sites as Dead Cell Zones , a crowdsourced map of dead cell zones; PhotoEnforced.com , a map and database of traffic camera locations, and DrillingMaps.com , a

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Thursday, August 8, 2019 -- 16th Annual ERA Summer Social and Electro-Tech Table Top Show. 16th Annual electronics industry (Reps/Distributors/OEM's, CM's, etc) Summer Social - this year we are adding a mini table top show starting at 2:45 in an effort to get attendees to show up a bit early to see the latest and greatest products on display. Then stay and enjoy cold beverages and appetizers on a beautiful summer evening on the patio.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Calabasas-based DTS is powering the new immersive audio experience for the ASus Republic of Gamers (ROG) gaming phone, according to DTS. DTS--which is now part of Xperi Corporation--said that its DTS:X Ultra audio technology is being incorporated into the new ROG Phone II, the newest product from ASUS Republic of Gamers. Financial impact of the win was not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

A refrain I often hear from technology entrepreneurs to investors is that their product or solution is so innovative that it will cause a “paradigm shift” in the industry. Their assumption is that customers and investors will be wowed by this into buying, ignoring the evidence that large-scale change takes a long time, most often fails, and scares away customers and investors alike.

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Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Burbank-based Causecast , which developed an online platform to help employers increase employee engagement with charitable causes, has been acquired by America's Charities , a nonprofit focused on getting employees to support causes they care about. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Causecast was founded and led by CEO Ryan Scott.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 2, 2019

We’re in the midst of earnings season, and a couple of San Diego’s publicly traded biotechs recently updated investors this week with sales data and other financial insights. Here’s a look at those companies. —Acadia Pharmaceuticals faced a setback in July with the failure of a late-stage trial that was testing pimavanserin —which the company’s sells under the name Nuplazid as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease-related psychosis—in people with schizophrenia who haven’t respond

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Xconomy

AUGUST 2, 2019

Acquisitions made Pfizer what it is today: the world’s biggest drug maker measured by revenue. But as the company maps its future, CEO Albert Bourla is breaking some of that legacy apart. Blockbuster drugs such as Viagra and Lipitor, which came via acquisitions, are currently sold by Upjohn, Pfizer’s off-patent drug division. This week, Pfizer announced it a deal to spin off Upjohn and merge it with generic drug maker Mylan, the developer of the EpiPen.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Santa Monica-based Ring , the surveillance doorbell network which is now owned by Amazon , is now looking to collect and aggregate real-time, 911 call information, according to a report from Gizmodo. According to the report, the 911 information is being pushed to nearby Ring users as "crime news". The cozy ties to law enforcement follow disclosure this week in a report from Motherboard that Ring is working closely with over 200 law enforcement agencies to make it easier for those departments to

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AUGUST 2, 2019

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