Fri.Feb 14, 2020

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Star Gazer

L.A. Business Journal

Steve Isakowitz is president and chief executive of Aerospace Corp., the nation’s only federally funded research and development center focused on aerospace.

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AdQuick Finds $6M For Out Of Home Advertising

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Los Angeles-based AdQuick , a new startup which is developing software tools to help enable out of home (OOH) advertising, has raised $6M in its Series A, the company said this week. The funding was led by Initialized Capital, and also included WndrCo, Shrug Capital, The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund and Michael Kassan's MediaLink. AdQuick says it is developing tools to help anyone easily launch out-of-home advertising campaigns, which currently involved what the company says is an "extremely cumb

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Tinder Boosts Earnings for Parent Match Group

L.A. Business Journal

Dating app owner Match Group reported an estimated 16% annual increase in net income in fiscal 2019, due largely to Tinder, its highest-performing subsidiary.

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Virgin Galactic Moves Spacecraft To New Mexico

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Virgin Galactic , which is developing vehicles designed to take tourists to space, has relocated its SpaceShipTwo Unity spacecraft to its new launch site, in New Mexico, as the next step along its path to being able to launch its spacecraft into space. According to Virgin Atlantic, the move process was a "captive carry flight" , where the VSS Unity was attached to the VMS Eve carrier aircraft, and also allowed the company's engineers to evaluate how the arrangement between the two vehicles worke

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

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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5 Strategies For Startup Partnering To Win Long Term

Startup Professionals Musings

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive c

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Inseego Targets Businesses With 4G LTE Device

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San Diego-based wireless device maker Inseego is targeting the business market with a new product, which uses 4G LTE to provide phone service to businesses, the company said on Thursday. According to Inseego, its new product, the BPC100, provides connectivity for voice and data and i ideal for mall and medium businesses, along with enterprise users.

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A Conversation With James Borow, Pepper Financial

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Our interview this morning is with James Borow , the co-founder of Pepper Financial (www.trypepper.com), a startup which is creating a new set of tools to help businesses grow smarter. The companyÂťwhich is being very quiet about what it is working onÂťwas founded by a group of former Snap executives, and is venture backed by Upfront Ventures, and which also included Lerer Hippeau, Manta Ray, and angels.

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