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Get your pitch applications in for the Boulder Micro-Meetup

TechCrunch LA

A reminder that I’ll be holding a micro-meetup at Boomtown on Broadway in Boulder, Colorado on Wednesday, March 29th at 7pm. You’ll have 2 minutes to pitch in front of two local judges and then 2 minutes of questions. No slides, no props, no costumes (Ok, maybe costumes.) Boomtown is at 2060 Broadway B1 in the basement. To get there, park around Spruce and Broadway and it’s… Read More.

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Silicon Beach Report March 24: SpaceX Plans to Relaunch Used Falcon 9 Rocket Next Week

L.A. Business Journal

SpaceX plans to relaunch used rocket next week, Black Tux to open showrooms in six Nordstrom stores, and Lions Gate has ‘helluva good day’ with Power Rangers video game launch.

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Cool Planet Reboots, In Colorado, With $19.3M Series A Funding

socalTECH

Cool Planet , the former Camarillo, California startup working on carbon conversion technology, has resurfaced in Colorado with a $19.3M Series A funding. According to Cool Planet, the new funding was led by Agust�n Coppel and North Bridge Venture Partners, and will go towards commercalization of its biochar product, Cool Fauna Engineered Biocarbon.

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A Talk With Chris Voss, Author of Never Split the Difference

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, March 30, 2017 -- A Talk With Chris Voss, Author of Never Split the Difference. General Assembly. Join author Chris Voss for a discussion on his latest book, Never Split the Difference , which offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home. Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car, negotiating a salary, buying a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner.

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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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Western Digital Backs Avere Systems

socalTECH

Irvine-based storage device maker Western Digital has backed Avere Systems , a developer of a file system for the hybrid cloud. Avere said this week that it has raised $14M in a Series E funding round, which came from Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital and Western Digital Capital, along with Google.

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R.E.D Talks Hosts Leading Virtual Reality Developers

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, March 30, 2017 -- R.E.D Talks Hosts Leading Virtual Reality Developers. Los Angeles is the fastest growing tech startup region, but it soon may acquire another moniker: Virtual Reality Hub. UCLA Extension presents “R.E.D Talks: Creating the Next Wave of Consumer Entertainment,” a discussion with one of the leading VR companies, Lucid Sight Inc., on spearheading the growth in an emerging market.

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Hiring Service Offers Insider’s Edge to Job Seekers

L.A. Business Journal

The perfect job candidate is so hard to find that the human resources industry has a term for the rare specimen: a purple squirrel.

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SpaceX Aims At Re-Launching Rocket With Next Mission

socalTECH

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is getting set to launch its first, ever, reusable rocket stage next week, in what could be a historic moment for spaceflight. SpaceX reportedly will use the same Falcon 9 first stage booster it used for the earlier CRS-8 mission, for the launch of the SES-10 satellite. The launch is expected to occur as soon as March 29th. The first stage booster successfully launched a payload to the International Space Station in April of 2016, and landed on a SpaceX barge in the Pacifi

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Software, Hardware by Apium Controls Submarine, Aircraft Swarms.

L.A. Business Journal

Apium hopes to gang up on the drone industry with its swarm software and hardware.

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Alteryx Prices IPO, To Debut On NYSE Today

socalTECH

Irvine-based Alteryx priced its IPO on Thursday evening, saing that it will sell 9,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at $14.00 per share. Alteryx will begin trading this morning as AYX on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which develops data analytics software, priced at the high end of its estimated initial IPO range, which had been between $12.00 and $14.00 per share.

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7 Ways to Use Data and Analytics for Strategic Change

Startup Professionals Musings

More than ever, businesses need to take full advantage of automation, data, and analytics to run their business more productively and competitively. Yet, in my role as a small business advisor, I still see many founders and executives who see data and analytics primarily as a measurement device on current results, rather than using it to evolve the business strategy and direction.

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Qualcomm, AT&T, CH2M In Water Management Effort

socalTECH

San Diego-based Qualcomm Intellignt Solutions , a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, has linked up with AT&T and CH2M to use Qualcomm's modem technology to monitor water usage in Georgia the company said on Thursday. Qualcomm said its power-efficient modems are being used to monitor non-revenue water usage for the Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources (Gwinnett County) in Georgia.

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Bio Roundup: Trumpcare Wavers, Amgen Courts Payers, Critics Circle PTC

Xconomy

Who knew healthcare could be so complicated ? This week, President Trump and the GOP saw first hand, as a feverish rally to get their healthcare bill through the House of Representatives on Thursday stalled before a vote. Elsewhere in Washington DC, drug pricing continued to be a political football. Two well known congressional drug pricing critics launched a preemptive strike on PTC Therapeutics over its soon to be launched steroid for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, deflazacort (Emflaza), while T

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Intel Combines Global AI Work Under Former Nervana Systems CEO

Xconomy

Roughly seven months after Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) acquired San Diego-based Nervana Systems, the chipmaker is consolidating its portfolio of artificial intelligence businesses in one group, headed by former Nervana CEO Naveen Rao. Rao (pictured above right) will report directly to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, spokesman Daniel Francisco said today. Rao plans to remain in San Diego, according to a spokeswoman for Intel Nervana.