Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2017

Most senior and middle level managers will understand when a subordinate comes to them to resign and begin a new business. But all will immediately question whether the new business will compete in any way with their enterprise, and react to the future entrepreneur in either of two very distinct ways based upon those fears. Even more suspicious is the action of an employee who resigns suddenly without notice or explanation.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2017

A reminder that I’ll be holding a micro-meetup at Boomtown on Broadway in Boulder, Colorado tonight at 7pm. You’ll have two minutes to pitch in front of two local judges and then two 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 in the… Read More.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2017

Irvine-based Cloudvirga , a developer of automated mortgage lending software, announced this morning that it has raised $15M more in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Incenter, a Blackstone Group portfolio company. The company said the funding goes to scale its technology and product offerings. The company has now raised $22.5M in total. Cloudvirga was founded by Bill Dallas, Kyle Kamrooz and Mark Attaway.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 29, 2017

Santa Monica pet-sitting app-maker DogVacay was purchased Tuesday by Rover.com for an undisclosed sum, according to the companies.

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Advertiser: Aggregage

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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InfoChachkie

MARCH 28, 2017

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. “Point of view is worth 80 IQ points.” Alan Curtis Kay, Personal Computer Pioneer I […]. The post If I’d Only Known Then… A Boomer’s Millennial Pep Talk appeared first on John Greathouse.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 31, 2017

Thursday, April 6, 2017 -- Downtown Los Angeles Tech Mixer Networking At Pez Cantina. Join Us For A Night Of Tech Networking At Pez Catina in Downtown Los Angeles! Support women entrepreneurs and join the fastest growing tech networking and startup community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Los Angeles tech community.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 29, 2017

Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders on Wednesday unveiled a $5 billion-a- year plan for road and highway projects, to be funded chiefly by steep hikes in taxes for diesel fuel and gasoline, and a new tax on vehicle registrations.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2017

Dan Goldin founded KnuEdge (initially known as Intellisus) in 2005 to realize his vision for neural-based computing—and to fundamentally transform the way humans interact with machines. As he puts it, “a tidal wave is coming. It’s going to be bigger than the Internet. It looks and feels like the early ‘90s—but better.” To get a better idea of just how big this tsunami of machine intelligence will be, Xconomy has invited Goldin and other innovation leaders to speak at the Xconomy Foru

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 30, 2017

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 -- Roadmap to Commercialization. Santa Ana District SBDC. Why is the right business model critical to your venture start-up's success? Can a bad value proposition kill your business? How well do you really know your target customer? As a founder, your "Hero's Journey" will be fraught with numerous obstacles, "uncertainty, fear and doubt".

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2017

San Diego-based Echo , a startup which is developing a new "hybrid" microscope aimed at replacing both upright and inverted microscopes, has raised $7.5M in a Series A funding. The funding was co-led by Dolby Family Ventures and Tech Coast Angels (TCA). According to the company, the new funding will go towards manufacturing, sales, and developing future technologies.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 28, 2017

L.A.’s solar power industry grew by 11 percent in 2016 over 2015, but dropped to second place for most solar-related jobs in the nation’s metropolitan areas, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Solar Foundation, a Washington D.C. nonprofit dedicated to promoting the solar power industry.

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Xconomy

MARCH 29, 2017

San Diego-based ViaCyte said today it is collaborating with W.L. Gore & Associates, the privately held company that makes Gore-Tex fabrics, medical devices, and other products, in a bid to improve its stem cell-derived treatment for diabetes. Under their collaborative research agreement, ViaCyte said it will work with Gore to develop a next-generation version of the bio-engineered packet that ViaCyte fills with stem cells that have been engineered to become pancreatic cells.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 30, 2017

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 -- FundingPost Los Angeles VC and Angel Investor Conference. Join us for this intimate VC and Angel Investor Conference. Interested in meeting early-stage accredited investors in LA? Then register for the FundingPost Investor RoundTable on April 5th, 2017 at 2:00pm. FundingPost has hosted 300+ sold-out venture events in 23 cities over the past 16 years.

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Los Angeles Venture Capital Conference Angel 100

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2017

Monrovia, California-based AeroVironment , which develops both electric vehicle chargers as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, said on Tuesday that it has linked with smart grid charging technology developer eMotorWerks. The two said they will integrate eMotorWerks Juicenet smart-grid EV charging platform into Aerovironment's line of EV charging solutions.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 30, 2017

SpaceX landed a used Falcon 9 first-stage rocket on a water barge in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday — the world’s first flight and landing of a previously launched orbital-class rocket.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2017

If you haven’t had a setback in business, you are probably risk averse and doomed to mediocrity. The business leaders who create real technology paradigm shifts, or have changed the world of commerce, don’t advertise their failures, but they still feel them. Yet they have been able to learn from their mistakes and bounce back stronger for the next challenge.

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Social Media Technical Review Entrepreneur Commerce 63

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 30, 2017

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 -- ViaSat MarketLink. EvoNexus. ViaSat will be selecting early stage companies that impact technical areas in cybersecurity for potential partnerships. Selected companies will be provided with a private 1-hour meeting with ViaSat executives. There is no fee for this opportunity, simply apply.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2017

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu is up to its usual tricks for this time of year , and said on Friday that it has launched a brand new service called Hu , which it says condenses the entire episode of popular series into eight seconds or less, and lets viewers "stream entire seasons" of popular TV shows in "under five minutes." Hulu has rolled out versions of Seinfeld , Empire , The Mindy Project , Shut Eye and The Path as part of the new "service".

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 30, 2017

Fandango relocates staff to L.A. office, SpaceX nails world’s first launch, landing of reused rocket, Snap pitches self-serve geofilters to small businesses, and more.

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Fandango SpaceX Report 115

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2017

Fundraising is brutal. Actually, according to Paul Graham of Y-Combinator fame, “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want.” More startups may fail for that reason, but a close second is the difficulty of raising money. A while back, I outlined “ 10 Tried-And-True Strategies For Funding New Ventures ” for startups, listing angel investors as alternative six.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 29, 2017

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 -- PUBLIC VENTURE CAPITAL: A GROWTH PATH YOU NEED TO EXPLORE. Join us for a wine-tasting, reception and seminar to learn how to access public venture capital in Canada (without needing to move there). You will meet capital providers, dealmakers, and advisors who will discuss why this is a growth path you should explore.

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Venture Capital Capital 100

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2017

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY is one of the companies behind the new, Google service for booking fitness and spa appointments, Google Reserve. Google, which announced the new service on Thursday , said it now allows users to book and pay for fitness classes through Google Maps, Google Search, and the Reserve with Google website. Google said it is using MINDBODY, plus MyTime, Genbook, Full Slate, Front Desk, Appointy, and others, to power the service.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 27, 2017

Faraday Future cancels plans to build assembly factory in California, Snap Inc. stock jumps after underwriters give company ‘buy’ rating, and Nasdaq threatens to drop Global Eagle over delayed SEC filing.

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Report Company Companies 110

Xconomy

MARCH 30, 2017

Echo , a San Diego startup that has developed a digital, all-in-one microscope, says today it has closed on $7.5 million in a Series A round led by San Francisco-based Dolby Family Ventures and Southern California’s Tech Coast Angels. In a phone interview this afternoon, founder Eugene Cho (the E.Cho in Echo) tells me the three-year-old startup will use the funding to significantly increase production of its Revolve hybrid microscope.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 29, 2017

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 -- FundingPost Orange County VC and Angel Investor Conference. Join us for this intimate VC and Angel Investor Conference. Interested in meeting early-stage accredited investors in Orange County? Then register for the FundingPost Investor RoundTable on April 4th, 2017 at 5:00pm. FundingPost has hosted 300+ sold-out venture events in 23 cities over the past 16 years.

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Orange County Venture Capital Conference Angel 100

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2017

Upload Inc. , a Bay Area company focused on virtual and augmented reality training and coworking, said on Thursday that it plans on opening up a new Los Angeles area education and coworking space, specifically focused on the VR and AR community. The company said its new site, based in Marina Del Rey, will open on April 13th. Upload says the new 20,000 square foot space will be equipped with "state-of-the-art" virtual reality technology, and space for more than 100 companies.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 28, 2017

Rubicon sued by publishing customer The Guardian, Tinder plans to launch website version, and Facebook clones Snapchat stories and then puts feature atop newsfeed, and more.

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Customer Custom Snapchat Report 109

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Most business leaders today realize that smart management of scarce resources is the key to competitive success. That’s why they manage money so carefully. Yet the truth is that a more scarce resource is really the time, talent, and energy of your team. Leaders who are able to optimize these find multipliers of 20 percent up to nine times the average productivity.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 29, 2017

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 -- Digital Summit LA. Event Name: Digital Summit LA Dates: April 4-5, 2017. Brilliant speakers bring phenomenal content on Marketing Strategies, UX and Design, Email, Search, Mobile, Video, SEO and so much more.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2017

Los Angeles The Virtual Reality Company said this morning that it has released a new, animated virtual reality (VR) series, called Raising a Rukus. The company said it is the first to debut a series of the kind specifically for families. The Virtual Reality Company (VRC) previously had released the virtual reality series, The Martian VR for Twentieth Century Fox.

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Company Companies Los Angeles Angel 122

L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 29, 2017

Santa Monica’s DogVacay Purchased by Rival Rover.com, Science Inc. begins raising $60 million fund, and test firing readies SpaceX rocket for relaunch Thursday.

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SpaceX Report Funding 110

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2017

Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Their vision, passion, and focus are so strong that they can’t imagine someone disagreeing, much less fighting them to the death. But the reality is that startups are composed of smart people, with emotions as well as intellects, working in close proximity under much pressure, so conflicts will occur.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 27, 2017

Sunday, April 2, 2017 -- N3XT CON 2017 - Entertainment, Technology, Startup. Located in Southern California, N3XT CON 2017 will spotlight industries that embody the LA spirit - Entertainment, Technology, and Startups. Industry leaders from top companies such as Disney, LA Times, BuzzFeed, and NBC will share their experiences at the conference. Daniel Seah, CEO of Digital Domain, will give the keynote address discussing how technology drives the entertainment industry.

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Entertainment Buzzfeed Technology Southern California 100

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2017

Fountain Valley-based HyperX , the divisio of Kingston Technology Company which focuses on the high performance gaming market, announced a new DDR4 memory product today called the HyperX FURY. The new DDR4 memory is designed specifically for the gaming market, with support for "overclocked" gaming PCs up to 2666MHz, available in three different colors (black, red, and white), and support for the Intel 200 series processors and X99 chipsets plus AMD's Ryzen processors.

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Pricing Design Marketing Technology 119

L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 31, 2017

Restaurateurs, art galleries, and developers are among the growing number of Angelenos seeing urban farms bear fruit.

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Develop Development 140

Xconomy

MARCH 29, 2017

As expressions go, “moonshot” has recently been gaining a lot of popularity in the media vernacular. Many folks assume that it arose with NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon. But it’s a matter of debate. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, for example, credits commentator Vin Scully for inventing the term to describe the soaring home runs that Wally Moon hit out of the old Los Angeles Coliseum.

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