Sat.Jan 09, 2016 - Fri.Jan 15, 2016

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Harvest your social media contacts

Berkonomics

You may not know that you have access to many “free” sources of social media contacts to help you in your marketing effort. The first semi–secret source is your LinkedIn contact list. You probably thought it was proprietary to LinkedIn, or at worst, available only when sending messages through LinkedIn to your list. I have thousands of LinkedIn contacts and am willing to assume you have a large number as well.

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WaiveCar Launches Ad Supported Car Sharing In Santa Monica, Venice

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In an unusual twist for the car sharing market, a new, Los Angeles startup-- WaiveCar --said today that it has launched a new, mobile phone-driven car sharing program in Santa Monica and Venice, which lets drivers drive cars for free. The startup said the free car usage comes thanks to sponsors, who have plastered their advertising on the startup's automobiles.

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Startup Lessons From Stephen King: Results Vs. Activities

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared Forbes. Long before author Stephen King sold over 350 million books, he was a budding entrepreneur. In order to pay his college tuition, young Stephen created a sole proprietor startup with a very entrepreneurial pricing structure. Leveraging his core competency, Stephen cranked out term papers for his fellow students.

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Stay the Course – Create Success with Relentless Commitment

Eric Greenspan

Patience, it’s not only a virtue, it’s a requirement for success. Rarely does anything build and become valuable over night and usually, if it does, it will fall as fast. A good idea can mature to a great idea and a great business but it requires attention, nurturing and more importantly, patience. But most important is your ability to stay the course.

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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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HQ Living Room Series: User Experience Beyond the Screen [ LOS ANGELES ]

Tech.Co

HQ is excited to present the first event in our Living Room Series. Join us for a home-cooked meal, workshop, and salon-style discussion on the topic of ‘User Experience Beyond the Screen.’ The event will be small and hands-on, and it is for entrepreneurs, designers, developers from a range of backgrounds to encourage diverse dialogue from a variety of perspectives.

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March Capital Backs VeloCloud In Series C Funding

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Santa Monica-based venture capital investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a developer of cloud networking technology, VeloCloud Networks , as part of a new $27M funding round for that company. VeloCloud, which is based in Silicon Valley, said the new Series C funding was led by March Capital Partners, and also included Cisco Investments, New Enterprise Associates, and Venrock.

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Jennifer Wang: A Rising Star in Tech

Tech Zulu Event

It’s a known fact that there are more men than women in tech, and those numbers aren’t getting better — in 2013, women held 26 percent of computing jobs in the United States, as opposed to 35 percent in 1990. Women are underrepresented in tech industries, and it has proven difficult to attract them to such a male-dominated industry filled with plenty of stereotypes.

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Why The Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will be Vertical

Both Sides of the Table

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud.

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AdRev Acquired By Zealot Networks

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Studio City-based AdRev , the digital rights management startup that also operates AudioMicro , has been acquired by Zealot Networks , according to AdRev founder Ryan Born. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Zealot Networks already owned a majority of AdRev, having acquired that stake in 2014 for $20M. Born said he is no longer CEO of the company, but continues on as an Advisor to Zealot.

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6 Prerequisites For Turning Your Passion Into Profits

Startup Professionals Musings

I meet many entrepreneurs with a real passion for their new idea, but unfortunately they don’t all realize that passion is necessary but not sufficient fuel to turn their idea into a successful business. The result is that far too few really great innovations ever get implemented -- or last more than a moment in the marketplace. First of all, passion needs to be surrounded by a host of other personal attributes necessary to survive the rigors of the long, hard journey to success.

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CES 2016 Gaming: What You Missed and Shouldn’t Have

Tech Zulu Event

CES is a prime time for gaming companies to showcase their latest tech: There’s always a collection of the newest PC cases, the latest mobile tricks, gaming laptops, and gaming headsets. For CES gaming in 2016, VR devices were at the front and center even more prominently than before – but a few other fantastic upcoming products also made a splash. 1.

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The Most Important Political Show on TV

Both Sides of the Table

We can often get lost in the sideshows of the political season talking a bunch of nonsense about immigration, China bashing, race baiting and overplaying social issues and fear. We have reduced our discussion to a reality TV show or People Magazine and thus we debate the price of Marco Rubio’s shoes, the length of Hillary Clinton’s bathroom breaks and whether being born in Canada should exclude Ted Cruz from the presidency.

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FastPay Tops $1 Billion In Loans

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Los Angeles-based FastPay , the online lending startup led by Jed Simon, says that it has just topped $1 billion in cumulative loan volume. The company--which helps online publishers gain access to funds faster than the usual payment times for online advertising--said the volume of its loans has increased due to increase in digital ad spending. FastPay's customers use the company to manage their cash flow better, as most online ad networks and advertisers have very long accounts payable times.

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6 Ways Startups Are Fooled By Prior Business Models

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early. But I’m not convinced that it’s as simple as that. Many are just not facing the reality that their passion had a critical business flaw. As I was reading a recent book “ Dead Companies Walking ,” by Scott Fearon, who runs a hedge fund that profits from businesses headed toward bankrupt

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CES: 5 Must See Bluetooth Speakers

Tech Zulu Event

The past couple of years at CES have showcased a variety of ever-smaller, ever-better Bluetooth speakers for you to tote around, use at house parties, and take into nature. But this year, CES 2016 showed us that there are still a whole lot of roads untraveled for Bluetooth speakers, which seemed determined to thrive just about anywhere. 1. Braven BRV XXL.

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Grindr Sells Majority Stake To Chinese Gaming Firm For $93M

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Los Angeles-based mobile dating app developer Grindr has raised $93M for its gay dating apps, from Chinese gaming firm Beijing Kunlun Tech Co. Grindr said late Monday that it sold a 60% stake in the company to Beijing Kunlun Tech Co., valuing the company at $155M. Grindr told its users that it would be "business as usual" for the firm, which had previously been entirely self funded.

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Unmute Picks Up $2.2M In Seed Funding

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Los Angeles-based Unmute , which develops mobile apps to let people share and interact in live phone calls, has raised $2.2M in a seed funding, the company said Friday. The funding came from Greycroft Partners, and also included Comcast Ventures, Crosscut Ventures, Betaworks, as well as the NBA's David Stern and Robert Kirkman of "The Walking Dead".

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MindTouch Picks Up $12M For Customer Self Service Software

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San Diego-based MindTouch , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to help companies create self-service, customer support sites, has raised $12M in a Series A funding. The funding came from PeakSpan Capital, along with SK Ventures and SAP SE. MindTouch, which was founded by Steve Bjorg and Aaron Fulkerson back in 2005, said the funding will go to increase its integration with software such as Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle, and grow its marketing, business development, sales, and engineering t

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SPARQL City Acquired by Cambridge Semantics

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San Diego-based SPARQL City,/a> , which develops big data analytics software, has been acquired by Boston-based >a href="[link] Semantics. Financial terms of the intellectual property deal was not announced. Cambridge Semantics said it has hired former CEO and founder Barry Zane, as well as other executives from SPARQL City. Zane previously served at Applix, Netezza, and ParAccel.

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j2 Global Acquires Four More Companies

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Los Angeles-based J2 Global , the Internet services provider and publisher, has gobbled up four more companies, as it continues to have a ravenous appetite for acquisitions. The company said it acquired Ausweb , a hosting firm in Australia, Offers.com , a digital media company here in the US; On Demand Recovery , a provider of backup services in the UK; and MX Toolbox , an email security company also based here in the US.

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SpaceX Lines Up Next Mission From Vandenberg, Plans Ocean Landing

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Hawthorne-based commercial rocket and spaceflight provider SpaceX is planning another launch for this weekend, according to Elon Musk, and plans to attempt another landing of its rocket--this time, on the ocean. SpaceX--which, after multiple tries, finally managed to successfully land the first stage of its Falcon 9 at Cape Canaveral in December--needs its "drone ship" landing for high velocity missions, according to Musk.

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Illumina Launches New Company For Early Cancer Detection With $100M

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San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina said over the weekend that it has launched a new company, GRAIL , to focus on early cancer detection via blood-based screening. As part of the effort, GRAIL has raised $100M in a Series A financing, led by Illumina and ARCH Venture Partners, and also including Bezos Expeditions, Bill Gates and Sutter Hill Ventures.

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Bourns Buys Business From Murata

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Riverside, California-based electronics components manufacturer Bourns has acquired the trimmming potentiometer business of Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. , the two said Friday. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Bourns said it acquired specific assets of that business, with transfer of those assets to begin in early 2016. Bourns is already a major manufacturer of trimming potentiometers, which are used on circuit boards for adjusting resistance in circuits; the company is

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Guidance Software Shuffles Executives

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Pasadena-based Guidance Sofdtware , the developer of computer forensics and security software, said it has undergone a restructuring of its sales, training, channel and product development efforts. As part of the shuffle, the company said that its Chief Revenue OFficer, Jay Ackerman, and its Chief Technology Officer, Shawn McCreight, have both "separated from the company".

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TigerText Takes Aim At Outdated Pagers, FAX Machines

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Santa Monica-based TigerText , the provider of secure messaging apps which are heavily used by the healthcare industry, has launched two new features aimed at bringing hospitals into the modern age. TigerText said its new products, TigerPage and TigerFax, will allow its users to receive and respond to pages and faxes from their smartphone. TigerText said that pagers and fax machines are still widely in used in hospitals in the U.S.

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SCE Plans EV Charger Rebates, Big EV Charger Install Push

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Southern California Edison is planning a big electric vehicle charging station push here in Southern California, saying it plans to install as many as 1,500 new electric vehicle charging stations in its service territory, and offer up rebates to users who install them. SCE said it is spending $22M to install stations at workplaces, campuses, recreational areas, and apartment and condominium complexes as part of the effort, which will provide rebates of between 25 and 100 percent of the cost of t

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Virgin Galactic, Adidas Team On Stylish Spacesuits

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Mojave-based Virgin Galactic , the commercial spaceflight and tourism venture of Sir Richard Branson, may not be able to deliver you to space just quite yet. But, when they do, it apparently will be in style. Virgin Galactic and Adidas, via its Japanese design house, Y-3, is designing fashionable flight suits for Virgin Galactic's future astronauts and pilots, the companies said today.

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SpaceX Wins New NASA Contract For ISS Deliveries

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NASA said Thursday afternoon that it has awarded Hawthorne-based SpaceX one of three awards to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), as part of a continuation of its efforts to move to commercial rocket launch providers. NASA said the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-2) contracts cover deliveries to the ISS from 2019 through 2024.

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Ambry Genetics Rolls Out Free Cloud Software

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Aliso Viejo-based Ambry Genetics , a provider of genetic diagnostics software, said today that it has launched a new, free cloud software service called Progeny Cloud. The company said the new software, which is aimed at medical practices and other institutions, will allow those companies to manage their patient pedigrees and family history data, for free.

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Prolacta Names Chief Medical Officer

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City of Industry-based Prolacta Bioscience , the venture-backed company which takes and processes human milk to help premature infants, has named Victoria Niklas, M.D. as its new Chief Medical and Scientific Officer. Niklas was most recently Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Newborn Services at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center and a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

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How mPulse Is Using Your Smartphone To Improve Health Care

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Now that just about everyone has a smartphone, how can you use that nearly ubiquitous, mobile access to help improve healthcare? For one�according to Los Angeles startup mPulse Mobile (www.mpulsemobile.com), you can help remind people about their appointments, and make sure they take their prescriptions�along with many other use cases. We caught up with CEO Chris Nicholson to hear about how the venture-backed company is using smartphones to change how we interact with health providers.

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RadPad Tallies Up $40M In Rent Payments, Teams With Mastercard

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Los Angeles-based RadPad , the mobile rental marketplace startup led by Jonathan Eppers, says it proceed $40M in mobile credit and debit rent payments in 2015, and has inked a deal with MasterCard. The company, backed by Altpoint Ventures and Goldcrest Investments, said that MasterCard is giving its customers a low 1.99 percent processing fee--rather than a higher, 3.49 percent fee for other cards--if they use their card with RadPad.

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Managed By Q Expands To Los Angeles

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Managed by Q , which provides what it calls an "operating system for offices"--managing everything from cleaning, supply restocking, IT troubleshooting, and even helping to assemble furniture for companies--said it has expanded into Los Angeles, attracted by its thriving technology scene. The company said it will initially focus on Century City, Venice Beach, and Santa Monica with its services, headquartered out of Culver City.

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Startup Behind LAX Marriott's Robotic Butler Gets $15M From Intel, Google

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The startup, which is behind the "robotic butler" that has been roaming the halls of the Marriott Los Angeles LAX/Century Boulevard has just scored $15M in a funding round, which includes Intel and Google. According to Savioke , a robotics startup which develops a robot aimed at the hospitality industry, it has just raised $15M in a Series A, which came from Intel Capital, EDBI, Northern Light Venture Capital, Morado Venture Partners, AME Cloud Ventures, and Google Ventures.

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Compulink Buys Eyecom

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Thousand Oaks-based Compulink Business Systems , a developer of electronic health records and practice management software, announced this morning that it has acquired Eyecom , a fellow developer of practice management software for the optometry market. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Compulink said it acquired Eyecom from Echo, a HealthStream Company.

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Ixia Ships 50 Gigabit Ethernet Module

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Calabasas-based Ixia said today that it has launched a new set of 50GbE modules, which will allow its customers to test 50Gb Ethernet equipment. Ixia--which already has 10, 25, 40, and 100GbE modules for the market--said its product is the first, Gigabit Ethernet validation product for 50GbE. Ixia says it is part of the 25G/50G Ethernet Consortium. READ MORE>>.

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