TechEmpower

MAY 28, 2015

By Jeffrey Papen, CEO and Founder, Peak Hosting. At Peak Hosting , we're big fans of TechEmpower's Framework Benchmarks, an open source project the company has been coordinating since early 2013. Covering a wide variety of web application frameworks, this project gives developers useful data that can help them find the framework that will provide the performance and features they need for their application.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2015

Santa Monica-based secure messaging app developer TigerText , which provides secured text messaging for the enterprise and healthcare markets, has signed up a customer in Chicago. TigerText said that Chicago Cardiology Institute (CCI), which treats cardiovascular disease in Illinois, has deployed the company's secure messaging products as part of a HIPAA compliance effort.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Self-aware startups often learn more from their failures than from their success. Timehop , the photo album for the digital age, is no exception. Created by Jonathan Wegener and his Co-Founder Benny Wong, the company has over 16M+ users. To put this in proper perspective, more than twice as many people access Timehop each day than read the New York Times.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 23, 2015

In my Chapter 8.1 post I shared with you a story of my electric car (Chevy Volt, not the Tesla!) purchase. I was a week past my chapter 7 bankruptcy and my goal was to get back on the horse and start building credit immediately. Additionally, the car I traded was financed by my ex and it was in her name. I needed that to change, so did she. I knew big interest rates and a lot of work were in store for me, but I went for it.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2015

Every entrepreneur I know is dismayed by the number of friends who approach them with a line such as “I have an even better idea that will change the world, and one of these days I’m going to get around to starting my own business.” I always wonder what is more important to them on an ongoing basis than changing the world, since their startups usually never materialize.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

E-commerce giant Amazon.com is expanding free, same day delivery in Los Angeles, to members of its Prime service, as part of a broader expansion if its same day delivery services. According to Amazon, it is now offering up free, same day delivery to customers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and other cities, removing what had previously been an added fee service.

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Steve Reich

MAY 29, 2015

Here’s how the Malauzai team lauched a watch app in 40 days!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

Aspiring entrepreneurs who rely only on traditional learning vehicles (teachers, classrooms, and risk-free practice) are doomed to failure in founding a startup today. Either they are never really ready to start, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Almost everyone of a technical bent in the technology industry is familiar with that old routine: your parents, your friends, and your neighbors inevitably calls you for free technical support. However, almost no one really wants to be that technical support person. Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2015

Planning a threaded Tweetstorm? Here’s the rules: 1/Tweet 2/Reply to 1st Tweet but remove your @name 3/Reply to 2nd Tweet not 1st 4/Repeat. — Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015. I learned the hard way by doing a Tweetstorm below but linked every subsequent Tweet back to the original Tweet to create the thread. I faced the wrath of the community.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2015

Irvine-based Oculus VR and co-founder Palmer Luckey have been sued again, this time by a company in Hawaii called Total Recall Technologies. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in California, claims breach of contract and theft of intellectual property by Luckey, who Total Recall claims they hired to help them develop immersive, head mounted displays.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2015

Los Angeles-based SpaceX has crossed a major hurdle in its efforts to provide launch services to the U.S. Department of Defense, and has been certified by the U.S. Air Force to carry out National Security space missions, according to the USAF. In an announcement from Lieutenant General Samuel Greaves, Commander of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space, the USAF said that SpaceX's Falcon has been certified to launch national securit

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2015

Venice-based Snapchat has raised $537.6M more--part of an ongoing $650M funding round--as the instant messaging app developer continues to break Southern California records in both total funding and valuation. According to a regulatory filing, the latest funding round had its first funds committed in February, and so far has 35 investors. The new investors reportedly include Alibaba, Fidelity, York Capital, and Glade Brook Capital, and the funding has widely been reported at valuing the company

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Irvine-based semiconductor developer Broadcom said this morning that it has scored a design win in South Korea. According to Broadcom, KT Skylife, which is a satellite broadcast provider in South Korea, is deploying an Ultra HD set-top box build on one of its chips. Broadcom said the set-top-box offers up 4K/Ultra HD satellite video, and is based on its BCM7376 chip.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Irvine-based Kareo said Wednesday that it has hired on Pam Perry as the company's new Chief People Offier. Perry was most recently Vice President of Human Resources at Appriss, and also has served at Internet Technology Corp, CB Richard Ellis, Inc., Caremark LTD, and Pharmacia, Inc. Kareo is a developer of cloud-based, medical office management software, and is led by Dan Rodrigues.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2015

Classmates , the online website which is part of Woodland Hills-absed United Online , has agreed to pay $11.0M to settle allegations of deceptive marketing and biling by the company--an investigation which has been running since 2010. The settlement was announced Tuesday by a group of 21 attorney generals. United Online and spiinout FTD will pay $8M to the states involved in the settlement, with $5.18M paid by Classmates and $2.82M to be paid by FTD; the companies also said Classmates will creat

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2015

Venice-based Snapchat , the high flying, high profile startup led by Evan Spiegel, is planning an IPO, according to Spiegel, who talked about the company's IPO plans at a conference on Tuesday. Spiegel said that an "IPO is really important" to the company. Spiegel did not give a timeframe for any IPO effort. The plans for an IPO are not a surprise, given the ultra high valuation that Snapchat has been getting in its latest private funding rounds.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based on-demand, in-home tech support and sales service HelloTech , which was founded by AmplifyLA/RealNetworks veteran Richard Wolpert, has raised another $2M, and officially launched its service in Los Aneles. According to HelloTech, the new funding came from Collaborative Fund, Baroda Ventures, Greycroft Partners, and Silicon Valley Bank along with Accel Partners, Upfront Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, Amplify.LA, and others.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2015

Los Angeles-based programmatic advertising marketplace and technology developer OpenX has signed on local news site Patch as a customer, saying it has been named the exclusive provider of ad serving and monetization for Patch. OpenX said that Patch will use its programmatic technology platform across its properties, which reach over 17.4 million unique visitors.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm has announced the ten companies that are part of its first Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator , which is being held in San Diego and just started this week. Qualcomm said it selected Carbon Robotics , Cleverpet , Ctrl Works , Inova Drone , Reach Robotics , Skyfront , Sky Robotics , Skysense , Solenica , and Rational Robotics for the program.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2015

Thousand Oaks-based agricultural biotechnology develper Ceres announced this morning that it has received a U.S. patent, covering the company's genetic sequence derived from soybean, which is aimed at producing improved soybean varieties. The company says it now has approximately 85 issued patents and numerous patent applications. The new patent, U.S.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2015

Irvine-based virtual reality headset developer Oculus VR announced today that it has acquired Surreal Vision , a UK-based develops of computer vision technology. Financial details of the acquisition wer enot disclosed. Surreal Vision develops real-time, 3D scene reconstruction software, which is used to create real-time, representations of the real, physical world in software.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2015

Santa Barbara-based real estate investment and property management software developer Yardi said over the weekend that it has been selected by a client in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai-based H&H Investment and Development said it will adopt Yardi's software for its property management efforts. Financial impact of the deal was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Irvine-based semiconductor maker Broadcom and Singapore-based Avago Technologies said this morning that Broadcom has agreed to be acquired by Avago in a deal worth $37 billion. Avago will pay both cash and stock for Broadcom. The two companies said the acquisition will create a company worth $77 billion in enterprise value and with $15 billion in combined annual revenues.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Santa Monica-based GumGum , the online image-based advertising startup led by Ophir Tanz, has raised a big, $26.0M round this morning, from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, along with NEA, Upfrot Ventures, First Round Capital, and the company's other exiting ivnestors. According to the firm, the funding will go towards expansion into international markets, to strengthen its R&D, and continue development of its products.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Carlsbad-based Source Intelligence > , a developer of platform for supply chain compliance efforts, has received a credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank, the company said this morning. Size and terms of the facility were not announced. Source Intelligence said the new funds will go towards accelerating growth of its supply chain compliance products and cloud platform.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2015

Los Angeles-based MyLife has recast itself as a provider of personal privacy services, launching a new home page and service Wednesday focused on offering up information on everyone and anyone. MyLife said it has created a new home page, and ability for anyone to run a search on anyone's reputation and reviews, letting anyone provide ratings and reviews of anyone else--either in their real name, or anonymously.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2015

La Jollla-based MANTA Instruments , a developer of technology for characterizing nanoparticles, has raised a round of seed funding, from Triton Technology Fund. Size of the funding was not announced. Triton announced the funding this morning, and said MANTA will use the funding to accelerate commercialization of its scientific instruments. The company is part of the EvoNexus startup incubator, and is led by Rick Cooper.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2015

Irvine-based Neudesic , which develops software and services for the enterprise market, said today that it has acquired Anaheim-based Web4 , a provider of enterprise content management (ECM), human resources, and collaboration software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. The companies said that Web4 will become a distinct unit of Neudesic.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2015

Anaheim-based Intense Lighting , a developer of LED-based lighting products, has been acquired by Leviton , Leviton said Tuesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Leviton said that Intense Lighting will operate as a new, standalone business unit of the company, and continue to maintain its operations in Anaheim. Intense Lighting provides LED lighting products for the commercial, hospitality, supermarket, retail and residential markets.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2015

San Diego-based Mitek , a developer of mobile capture and identification systems, said Tuesday that it has acquired Netherlands-based IDchecker >, a developer of cloud-based identify and facial recognition software. Mitek said it would pay $10.6M for IDchecker, split between $5.85M in cash and $2.75M in stock, plus up to $2M more in stock in earnout.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2015

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen said late Friday that it is terminating a program it has with AstraZeneca , to co-develop and commercialize a treatment for psoriasis. According to Amgen, the move is based on events of suicidal ideation and behavior in its clinical trails, which it says would necessitate restrictive labeling and limit the patient population for the drug.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2015

Santa Monica-based Enervee , which provides an online platform collecting energy consumption information on appliances and other products, is announcing this morning that it has raised $3.7M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Obvious Ventures, the venture capital fund created by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams. Enervee, which is led by Matthias Kurwig, develops a service which lets users compare the energy consumption of products, via its "Enervee Score", which helps users eval

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2015

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones. Perhaps hard questions need to come before ideas, rather than after.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Image via Pixabay.com Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I recognize that entrepreneurs tend to substitute vision and passion for formal processes, but no discipline or process in building something new is a sure way to spend money, rather than see any return and build a self-sustaining business.

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