Sat.Aug 21, 2010 - Fri.Aug 27, 2010

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Fight When it’s Time to Fight. Be Gracious When It’s Time to Give In.

Both Sides of the Table

There are times to fight. I must admit it’s part of my DNA to enjoy a good fight (not as much as does Jason Calacanis, mind you ahem: Facebook. Er: Comscore , Cough: Angel funding payola ). But there are times to given in and compromise. Don’t confuse the two. When you give in, do so graciously. Take the high road. Act and feel zen.

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LowFares.com: More than One Million Subscribers

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based LowFares.com , the online travel search and comparison site owned by Oversee.net, said Tuesday that it has reached more than one million subscribers. The firm said those subscribers get access to travel deals on cheap flights, hotels, rental cars, and vacation packages. LowFares.com also said it is now getting more than 4 million unique visitors per month to the site.

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Good tax planning is both legal and smart.

Berkonomics

When do you cross the line between honesty and dishonesty in tax planning? Is it ethical to allocate income between periods to take advantage of tax breaks? Can expenses be put off until the next period to increase income, or accelerated into this period by prepayment to decrease net income? Where do you draw the line, assuming no intent to defraud?

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Sencha Touch for Mobile Web App Development

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 -- CommNexus Presents:Sencha Touch for Mobile Web App Development. Sencha Touch is a new mobile app framework based on Javascript, HTML5, and CSS3. It allows developers to create amazing experiences on Android and iOS devices like the iPad and iPhone. In this presentation, we will look at the current state of mobile development, the benefits and availability of WebKit, and some specific developer-centric features of Sencha Touch.

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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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Please Help My Friend Colin Recover His Kidnapped Children #noorramsay

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve never made a public appeal before. Then again, I’ve never had a friend in need like my dear friend Colin Bower who is trying to recover his two kidnapped boys Noor (8) and Ramway (6). The short story: Colin & I have been close friends for 13 years when we started our MBA program together. We then both lived in London and our children played together.

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LiveOffice Signs Dodgers

socalTECH

Torrance-based LiveOffice , the provider of email archiving and compliance services backed by Summit Partners, reports today that it has added the Los Angeles Dodgers as a customer. According to LiveOffice, the Dodgers are using the firm's services to replace an outdated backup system. Financial impact of the win was not announced. LiveOffice says the Dodgers are using LiveOffice Discovery Archive, LiveOffice Email Continuity, LiveOffice Personal Archive and LiveOffice Personal Archive for Black

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Managing the Governmental Enterprise

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 -- Managing the Governmental Enterprise: The basis for legislative mandates for Enterprise Architecture in Federal Agencies and the Department of Defense. Presentation discussing the background, rationale and requirements for the legislative and other administrative mandates for using Enterprise Architecture in federal agencies and the Department of Defense.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

I was an early user of Quora and like all new technologies they take a bit of playing with them for a while, discussing them with others and reflecting on them to let them sink in. I’m no wall flower so when something doesn’t resonate I’m usually pretty vocal about it. With Quora , it was the opposite – something has always felt right but it took me a while to. really understand it.

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MySpace Swallows Fox Audience Network

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , which is a unit of News Corporation, said late Monday that it is integrating the Fox Audience Network (FAN) directly with MySpace. Fox Audience Network is News Corp's ad serving unit. The move comes as FAN President, Adam Bain, is leaving the firm. The Fox Audience Network was created in 2007 as a spinout of MySpace.

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Ten Founder Success Factors – And a Few Surprises

Startup Professionals Musings

We can all dream about what it takes to make our startup a success. From recent survey feedback, it seems evident that the urban legends leading to success are wrong. The average entrepreneur is not the one who dumped a promising career, sketched his idea on the back of a napkin, and accepted millions from an investor to make millions of his own. I was just perusing a more realistic recent report from the Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship , titled “ Making of a Successful Entrepreneur.

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MOTM: Conversation With Ben Kuo

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 -- MOTM: Conversation with Ben Kuo of socalTECH.com. Ben has invested the past 10 years in tracking the Southern California Technology market, maintaining a deep database of technology firms and publishing realtime news about local high tech companies through his website, socalTECH.com. He will be giving an overview of the tech hotspots on the 101 Corridor from Hollywood to Santa Barbara, sharing where venture capital is flowing and what these companies are focusing

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The 1/9/90 Rule of UGC & Why It’s OK to Have Lurkers

Both Sides of the Table

Two days ago I wrote about Quora. I’ve been loving the product even if it sucks up some of my time. I prefer my time go into a very focused Q&A website than into a more generic Facebook. What Quora has done is wrap social networking around Q&A with the more clever next-gen UX I’ve seen. But my post today is not about Quora, it’s about an answer that I wrote on Quora.

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Interview with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson, Okapi Ventures

socalTECH

It's been a good summer for Laguna Beach-based venture capital firm Okapi Ventures (www.okapivc.com), which recently saw its first portfolio firm exit last month in Carlsbad-based Helixis , which was acquired by Illumina for $105M. In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs.

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Strategy and Tactics Make Dreams A Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

By Ernst Gemassmer Some entrepreneurs are so caught up in their dream that they jump immediately into implementation, with no focus on strategy and tactics first. The result is that when they hit the first obstacle (and there will be many), it seems like the end of the road. They don't have any idea which way to turn. Based on my own experience, there is real value in spending time early on building the overall strategy and tactics for your business, before you charge ahead.

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Discovery and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 -- Pickering Lecture: Worlds Beyond  The Discovery and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets. AIAA. This highly regarded event will feature speakers: William Borucki, Principal Investigator, NASA Kepler Mission, NASA Ames Research Center Geoff Marcy, Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley Paul Kalas, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley.

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TEDxSB – Inspired Environments

Daradiction

My TEDxSB talk on Inspired Environments. After watching this video I got inspired to get a tan, hit the gym, and cut down my sugar intake by 80%. What a positive difference this has made in my energy levels and well being. Click here to view the embedded video.

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Geodelic Wins Clear Channel

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based Geodelic , the mobile application development firm run by Rahul Sonnad, has signed up Clear Channel's airport division, Clear Channel Airports , the companies said today. According to the two, the firms have create a new, location-based mobile app called FLYsmart, which will provide information to air travelers about services and amenities in terminals, arrival and departure information, news, and more.

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Where is Your Startup In the Gartner Hype Cycle?

Startup Professionals Musings

The Hype Cycle was a concept put forward by Gartner, Inc. back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it recently, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, the Gartner Hype Cycle characterizes the over-enthusiasm or "hype" and subsequent disappointment

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Women In Green Forum

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 -- Women In Green Forum. The Women In Green Forum will bring together renowned female professionals from the sustainability field to highlight womens impact on the environmental arena, promote the sustainable products offered by emerging green companies and provide opportunities for women to learn about careers in sustainability.

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Bring Startups and Designers Together with Elegant.ly

Tech Zulu Event

So you have an amazing idea and the back end of your site works flawlessly, but no one wants to use it because it looks like a 5 year old did your site design. For a lot of sites the design can make or break a the success of the website. We all know that most programmers are not the best designers. Elegant.ly has the answers to your designer needs.

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EMN8 Gets $3.1M More

socalTECH

San Diego-based EMN8 , a developer of automated order taking kiosks for the fast food and retail industry, has raised another $3.1M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. No details have been announced yet by the company. The filing indicates the round target is $3.5M, an includes equity, debt, and warrants. It appears that Sid R.

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Funding Your Startup: Are You a Zero or a One?

Startup Professionals Musings

By Akira Hirai Startup funding is a binary event. In the binary language of computers, a zero represents the “off” state and a one represents the “on” state. When I say that funding is a binary event, I mean that there are only two possible outcomes: either you succeed in getting funding, or you don’t. You win or you lose – there is no second place.

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Southern California Venture Network General Mixer

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 -- Southern California Venture Network (SCVN) Professional General Mixer. The Southern California Venture Networks (www.SCVN.org) invites you to meet, mix and mingle with other like-mined entrepreneurs at the next professional mixer in the Irvine Spectrum. See [link] (more).

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William Chow of Mobolize on TechZulu Live

Tech Zulu Event

Click here to watch live on Thursday 4pm PT. This week on TechZulu Live we have special guest William Chow of Mobolize. Mobolize is a software-only solution that is agnostic to how applications like SharePoint are deployed or customized, thereby delivering seamless integration for IT and users alike. William Chow is an expert in networking, virtualization, and security technologies, with over 17 years experience in leading multiple startups.

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Google Rolls Out Free Phone Calls Via Gmail

socalTECH

Search engine giant Google said today that it has rolled out free, voice calling via Google Gmail, at least for users in the U.S. and Canada. According to Google, users of Gmail will begin seeing the ability to "Call Phones" from their contact lists, or can use a dialpad to phone users. Calls outside of the U.S. and Canada will be billed at what Google says are "very low rates", including rates as little as $0.02 per minute to U.K., France, Germany, China, and Japan.

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Startups Need Focus To Cross All The Chasms

Startup Professionals Musings

Everyone in the business world has heard of the book by Geoffrey A. Moore titled “ Crossing the Chasm ” (1991), but most entrepreneurs have no idea how it relates to them. In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Most investors and startup professionals expand this concept of focus to apply to key issues of every aspect of strategic and tactical planning in a startup.

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BioReactor Brew

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 -- BioReactor Brew. The BioTech Forum. Join us on Tuesday evening, August 31st, at 5:30pm for good food and drink and hear the success story of our host company, Golden State Medical Supply (located in Camarillo) who, since 1989, has been packaging and distributing pharmaceuticals and medical supplies throughout the US. Tour their 95,000 sq. ft. state of the art facility as well as meet GSMS senior executives.

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CEO to CTO, When to Take Money, And More on TZLive With William Chow

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu Live Episode 6. In this episode of TechZulu Live we had special guest William Chow of Mobolize. Mobolize is a software solution that allows you to make your enterprise web applications like Microsoft SharePoint always responsive to the end user. Their goal is to make enterprise web applications responsive, available and reliable. So no matter if you are on a slow dial-up connection you will always have a great experience with Mobolize caching and syncing technology.

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MySpace Buys Threadbox

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace has acquired Threadbox , a developer of email messaging software, according to Threadbox. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. According to Threadbox, it sold certain assets of the firm to MySpace, and key members of the firm's team have moved over to MySpace's team. According to Michael Cerda, the firm's co-founder and CEO, the team will be applying the firm's technology at MySpace.

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Lon Safko – Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Author

Startup Professionals Musings

A couple of weeks ago I was privileged to meet Lon Safko, probably most recognized as the author of his best-selling book " The Social Media Bible.” In reality, he is also a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and international speaker. Lon is the founder of 14 companies, 19 inventions, and he holds three patents. His "First Computer To Save A Human Life,” and more than 30,000 of Lon‘s papers are in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.

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Southern California Venture Network (SCVN) Professional General Mixer

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 -- Southern California Venture Network (SCVN) Professional General Mixer. The Southern California Venture Networks (www.SCVN.org) invites you to meet, mix and mingle with other like-mined entrepreneurs at the next professional mixer in the Irvine Spectrum. Start-up tabletop opportunities available. See [link] (more).

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CitySourced Presents at the Esri User Conference Plenary with Jack Dangermond

Daradiction

It’s rare when lightening strikes twice. My partners Jason Kiesel, Kyle Brinkman, and I presented CitySourced in front of a live audience of 13,000+ July 12 in San Diego at the 30th Annual User Conference. This was a great bookend for our product launch post TechCrunch50 in Sept 2009. We were pleased when Myles Sutherland & Chris Thomas from Esri called us in April because Esri was on our short list of top partners that we wanted to work with.

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GoodSearch Gets Patent

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based GoodSearch.com , the online search engine which shares its advertising revenues with charities, said Tuesday that it has received a patent on its technology. According to the firm, it has received patent number 7,769,738 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. The patent application lists Kenneth Craig Ramberg as inventor. The patent was granted on August 3rd, and was first file in August of 2006.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Join Blog Mission Leaders Classifieds Conference Deals Contact Your Guide to the LA Startup Community by Founders on August 20, 2010 Submit to HN The following is StartupDigest ‘s second edition of “Your Guide to the Startup World&# with LA’s own Matt Sandler , Curator of the LA StartupDigest, Project Manager at CitizenNet , and Founder of Chromatik Music , which seeks to revolutionize music learning on the web.

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BTF BioReactor Brew

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 -- BTF BioReactor Brew. See [link] (more).

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Know When To Declare Defeat And Toss Out A Bad Idea – Do Not Be Afraid To Say, “That Baby Be Ugly!”

InfoChachkie

As Founder and CEO of Motown Records, Berry Gordy devised an effective methodology to objectively evaluate and critique the label’s music. Gordy created a unique culture which deemphasized cronyism and encouraged open and honest debate regarding the subjective quality of the company’s creative output. During the 1960’s, Motown’s artistic success was unprecedented.

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