Berkonomics
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Close. In 1981, Herb Cohen wrote and published “ You Can Negotiate Anything ”, an excellent guide to great negotiating. I’ve read and reread the book a number of times and find myself using the techniques often in many areas of my life. One of his lessons remains clearly on my mind and is a variant of the old “You name the price and I’ll name the terms” challenge that works so well in negotiation.
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2017
General Motors Co. announced on Monday that GM Cruise, its self-driving car subsidiary, had acquired Strobe, a Pasadena startup developing a technology that uses lasers to measure distances to other objects.
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InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 12, 2017
A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Marketing automation company HubSpot recently surveyed its users, asking them a variety of startup questions. Some […]. The post Which Of These 7 Fears Are Keeping You From Being An Entrepreneur? appeared first on John Greathouse.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Total venture capital investment dollars in 2017 are on their way to a decade high, according to a new report issued today, with $21.5 billion invested in the third quarter in more than 1,699 companies. The 3Q 2017 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report said the latest quarter worths of investment brings 2017's total to $61.4 billion across 5,948 deals to date.
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SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Thursday, October 19, 2017 -- Women Founder's Network 2017 Fast Pitch Competition Deadline. Women Founders Network (WFN) is a virtual accelerator that connects women building high-growth businesses with the tools and resources they need to achieve business success. Our flagship event is an Annual Fast Pitch Competition, which takes place on October 19, 2017.
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Online movie ticket seller Fandango announced on Friday that it reached an agreement to acquire MovieTickets.com of Boca Raton, Fla. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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socalTECH
OCTOBER 12, 2017
San Diego-based Qualcomm is facing more overseas antitrust woes, and has just been fined $773.9M by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission. According to the Fair Trade Commission, Qualcomm unfairly exercised a "monopoly position" for its chips used in mobile communications for seven years, and ordered Qualcomm to pay 23.4 billion Taiwan dollars in penalties.
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Thursday, October 19, 2017 -- How I Got Funded. Pasadena Angels. Launching your start-up requires more than grit, determination and a great idea. A successful start-up requires funding, mentoring and strong community partnerships. Engage in our panel discussion with Pasadena Angels' portfolio companies and network with our angel investors. Win a raffle ticket for an invitation to attend a our Member Breakfast at the Annandale Golf Club and consultation with a Pasadena Angels investor.
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Fandango to acquire MovieTickets.com, Wavemaker partners raises $66 million for second Southeast Asia fund, and ESPN picks up Barstool Sports talk show based on podcast ‘Pardon My Take.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Within 20 years, computer keyboards will be relegated to the technology dustbin, says Android co-founder Rich Miner. Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices. On Tuesday, Miner spoke at a mobile software developer conference in Boston organized by Facebook, part of the city’s HUBweek festival.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Los Angeles-based Hippeas , which makes chickpea-based, organic food snacks, has raised another $10M in funding, according to a report today. The funding reportedly came from CAVU Venture Partners. HIPPEAS previously raised funding from such investors as Strand Equity Partners and Leonardo DiCaprio. The company's organic food snacks are found widely in such chains as Starbucks, Whole Foods, Wegmans, Albertson's, Safeway, and elsewhere.
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Thursday, October 19, 2017 -- Cybersecure Los Angeles 2017. SecureTheVillage joins UCLA Extension for its first cybersecurity conference: CYBERSECURE LOS ANGELES 2017. You'll LEARN FROM leading information security professionals and law enforcement, including: information security providers, cyber-insurance, financial services, law, the LA County District Attorneys Office, and more.
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Hyperloop One becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’ with investment from Virgin Group, J2 Global acquires two companies and sells three others and Movies Anywhere app launches with backing from major studios.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 13, 2017
What began as a kind of business experiment in innovation has acquired a life of its own. The idea in 2011 was to create a space at what was then Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical research and development facility in San Diego for an “innovation center,” a place where 18 to 20 life sciences startups could incubate, replete with lab space and equipment.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Los Angeles-based startup Tooshlights , a developer of a technology-enabled system to help manage traffic into public restrooms, has raised $3M in a Series A funding, the company said today. According to Tooshlights, the Series A funding was led by convenience store chain Buc-ee's LTD. Tooshlights said its products are designed to help such venues as arenas, stadiums, airports, malls, hotels, convention centers, casinos, theme parks and office buildings improve traffic flow in their restrooms, b
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 -- LA AdPros and AMA Los Angeles Mixer. Come join us as we join forces with a American Marketing Association for a great night of networking in a vibrant new setting in DTLA. Find partners, meet new people, mix, mingle and do deals with other ad tech agencies, advertisers, publishers and digital marketers. See [link].
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2017
GM’s self-driving unit acquires Pasadena tech company, SpaceX launches third set of Iridium Next satellites and Hulu dives into eSports with pact for four shows from ESL.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Steve Case, venture capitalist, author, and co-founder of AOL, is preparing to hit the road this week on his sixth Rise of the Rest tour, where he travels to emerging innovation hubs in search of investment-worthy tech startups and to highlight the growth happening outside of places like Silicon Valley and Boston. In the years since the tour’s inception in 2014, Case says he’s become “quite encouraged” by the momentum he sees building in the middle of the country.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Hawthorne-based SpaceX has successfully launched another mission into space, sending a package of Iridium communications satellites into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base this morning at 5:37 a.m. PDT, in a launch which was visible from many parts of Southern California. SpaceX also successfully landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on a droneship, "Just Read the Instructions", in the Pacific.
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 -- LA Fintech Awards. Cast your vote for the 2017 LA Fintech Awards HERE. This will be better than the Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys combined. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues October 17th. Learn about the newest and fastest changes going on in financial technology. Finance is undergoing a massive change some call the "financial paradigm".
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 12, 2017
The $350 million investment round received by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. in July ranked as the fourth-largest financing round in the United States in the third financial quarter, a new report says.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 10, 2017
In the run-up to a key vote on an experimental gene therapy, the FDA raised no major flags about the drug’s track record but said its long-term effect remains an open question. That question should receive a thorough airing Thursday, when a meeting of FDA outside advisors will weigh a recommendation of the one-shot gene therapy, which is meant to cure a rare eye disease that leads inevitably to blindness.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Santa Monica-base online entertainment company TasteMade said yetserday that it is in a big expansion of its content, and is launching two new channels in the home and travel area. The company--which develops content online specifically for millennials--said it has produced more than 150 hours of original programming in the new home and travel areas.
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 -- Tea Tech and Tequila Autumn Mixer Fundraiser. Connect Pasadena. Media Technologies MarketPlace, a boutique tech sales and service company, is hosting a fun evening of networking, need to know tech showcases, tea and tequila tasting, live music and culinary goodies. As an InnovatePasadena Connect17 Week collaborator, well be celebrating entrepreneurship, innovation, design, technology, and science in Pasadena.
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2017
SpaceX to launch another used rocket; SpringRole, professional reputation management network, rolls out of Science Inc. incubator; and Hulu adds channel guide to live TV web user interface.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 9, 2017
“More dollars, fewer deals” has been a prevailing trend in venture funding over the past couple of years, and it was evident again in the three months that ended September 30, according to the latest Venture Monitor report. Venture firms invested $21.5 billion in 1,699 startups nationwide during the quarter, maintaining a pace that could reach a decade high by the end of 2017 in terms of overall funding.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Los Angeles-based web hosting provider DreamHost has scored a big win in its battle to keep information on visitors to the anti-Trump website disruptj20.org out of the hands of the Department of Justice. According to Dreamhost, the final order from Chief Judge Morin will "protect the constitutional rights of innocent internet users" and allow Dreamhost to redact all identifying information and protect identities of users who interacted with the website.
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 8, 2017
Saturday, October 14, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Cybersecurity. The Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum will be devoted to identifying entrepreneurial opportunities for providing tools to combat cyber threats. We will focus on market segments, what it takes to establish credibility as a small company, and what types of strategic alliances with larger companies can be used to overcome the challenges of starting and operating an emerging company capable of developing and selling leading edge se
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Daqri founder and CEO Brian Mullins steps down, Aerojet Rocketdyne to demo combined-cycle hypersonic engine and Snapchat is building a secluded R&D lab in Lehi, Utah.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Growth has always been fundamental to business success, but it’s never been more critical than it is now, nor more difficult. Every opportunity is global, but so is the competition. Evolving customer expectations and technology are the norm, forcing every company, from startups to large enterprises, to innovate quickly, despite their fear of change, uncertainty, and doubt.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Venice, California-based Snap, Inc. , the parent firm of Snapchat , has reportedly set up a new, secret location in Lehi, Utah, according to a report this week. The report says that the new lab is being headed up by former Scan.me co-founder Kirk Ouimet, who founded Scan.me out of Brigham Young University, and sold that to Snap for the basis of its Scancodes product.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 10, 2017
In mid-October, eleven college students will be flying to California for an opportunity that would be the envy of any Ivy League MBA candidate—they’ll meet the venture capital firm partners who will personally mentor them throughout the school year. The students—all but one are undergraduates—come from campuses in Prairie View, Texas; Tallahassee, Florida; and Nashville, Tennessee.
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Downtown augmented reality developer and headset manufacturer Daqri announced on Tuesday that its founder and chief executive, Brian Mullins, had resigned.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 7, 2017
We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Traditional business leadership practices, including autocratic, reactive, and narcissistic, aren’t working. Only 13 percent of workers are fully engaged, and half have left a job because they hated their boss.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Japanese entertainment firm Akatsuki has launched a brand new, Los Angeles-based entertainment fund, called the Akatsuki Entertainment Technology Fund (AET Fund) , which will invest in augmented reality and other entertainment technology, the Japanese company announced on Tuesday. According to Akatsuki, the new $50M investment fund is aimed at encouraging startups to create new content and services, and will invest in such areas as Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality marke
Xconomy
OCTOBER 10, 2017
— Mapbox announced Tuesday it had raised a hefty $164 million in a Series C financing round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund, which was joined by Foundry Group, DFJ Growth, DBL, and Thrive. The new capital will speed up Mapbox’s progress in vehicle navigation and autonomous driving, enlarge its virtual reality and augmented reality gaming capabilities, and fund its expansion into Southeast Asia, China, and Europe, CEO Eric Gundersen said in a blogpost about the financing.
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