socalTECH
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
The founders of Santa Monica-based TaskUs , CEO Bryce Maddock and President Jaspar Weir, have received a national award as part of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year program, the only Southern California entrepreneurs to gain recognition in the yearly program. The two received the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 Award in the Services category, one of only 11 categories awarded in the E&Y program.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Most of us have blind spots in our ability to build a business, due to lack of experience, too much ego, over-confidence, or unjustified faith in a subordinate. Only a few of the entrepreneurs I have worked with in a decade of consulting are smart and humble enough to recognize that they don’t know what they don’t know, and have an effective process for shining a light on their blind spots.
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socalTECH
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Los Angeles-based venture investor Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in a developer of wireless energy monitoring products, Copper Labs , in a $2M funding round. Copper Labs is based in Boulder, Colorado. According to Copper Labs, the new funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Blue Bear Capital, Bull Creek Capital, Capital Factory and Service Provider Capital.
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Bristol-Myers Squibb this week completed its acquisition of Celgene, a $74 billion deal that creates a pharmaceutical juggernaut. And all it took was the largest asset sale ever required by federal antitrust regulators. As the Federal Trade Commission reviewed Bristol’s (NYSE: BMS ) deal to acquire Celgene, anti-inflammatory drug apremilast (Otezla) emerged as a sticking point.
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socalTECH
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
A team from the University of California, Riverside has scored the top prize in a "hackathon" run by insurance company Geico. According to Geico, the UC Riverside team--made up of William Shiao, Aditya Acharya, Eric Ong and John Shin--won a two-weekend hackathon, the GEICO Hacktivates Hackathon--which had invited teams from a number of other universities to compete in a competition on "tech skills and ingenuity".
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Elon Musk and Tesla unveiled a new electric vehicle--the Cybertruck --last night in a big event, showing off an highly unusual design, made of the same stainless style used on the SpaceX Starship. According to Elon Musk at the reveal event, the truck is bulletproof--even showing the results of a 9mm handgun against the door panels--and Musk joked that the company would make a "pressured version" for Mars.
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