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How This Founder Wants to Apply Her Technology to Help Save the Planet’s Resources

Both Sides of the Table

There are so many moments from the Upfront Summit that I want to share with you — it just takes time to watch through all the videos, do write ups and still do my day job. One of the most exciting thinkers at Summit was Rebecca Kantar, the founder of Imbellus. I was excited to see her perform on stage because I’ve long been telling people how crazy smart, ambitious and talented she is but I was excited for people to hear for themselves.

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Do you think you are flexible and coachable?

Berkonomics

As an early stage investor, the first test for me is whether “my” entrepreneur is flexible in both the plan and execution of his or her vision (since from experience almost everything about a business plan changes over time), and whether s/he, no matter what age or experience, is coachable. Doctoral theses have been written on this subject. Early stage investor groups often list these traits at or near the top of their list when filtering opportunities for investment.

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TYT Network Surges To 6 Billion Total Views

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based TYT Network , the online news network behind The Young Turks, said Thursday that it has just passed up 6 billion lifetime online views. The network--known for its political coverage--has benefited from surge in views this year due to the recent presidential election. TYT Network says that the most recent, comScore numbers from December show it had more online views than CNN Politics, Politicsweekly.com, MSNBC, and Fox News Politics.

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Objective Sports: An Indicator Of Startup Success

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. I recently had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Kobie Fuller, current Partner at Upfront Ventures and […]. The post Objective Sports: An Indicator Of Startup Success appeared first on John Greathouse.

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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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Silicon Beach Report Feb. 27: SpaceX Plans to Send Tourists Around the Moon

L.A. Business Journal

SpaceX plans to send tourists around the Moon, HomeHero shuts down after shift to employee model, and RealD acquires MasterImage’s assets.

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SCALE - Southern California Linux Expo

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, March 2, 2017 -- SCALE. Now celebrating its 15th year, the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 15X is the largest Linux and Open Source Software show in North America.

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Superscreen Rethinks How You Engage with Your Smartphone

Tech.Co

Smartphones are the primary tool used to engage with the digital world. Thanks to increased performance, better battery life, improved wireless networks, and an infinite marketplace to connect developers and consumers, the shift towards mobile-only is not just a trend but a reality. So, why does it feel like more power and better apps have not lead to a greater mobile experience?

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SpaceX Plans to Send Tourists Around the Moon

L.A. Business Journal

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. announced plans this afternoon to send two tourists around the Moon by the end of 2018.

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Future Forum ? Entertainment: The Convergence of Technology and Media

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 -- Future Forum – Entertainment: The Convergence of Technology and Media. LAEDC. Digital technologies are democratizing the creation and distribution of content causing a seismic shift in the business model for traditional movie and television studios. The business strategy has gone to more vertical integration of companies who have cable, TV, and film arms, as well as theme parks and digital media.

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inVia Robotics Rolls Out Warehouse Automation System

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based inVia Robotics has rolled out a new robotics system, aimed at warehouse automation, specifically aimed at e-commerce retailers and fulfillment providers. According to inVia, its new inVia Dynamic Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) is designed to deliver toes, trays, and others to pickers, packers, and replenishers in warehouses, to help lower human travel time and liability in warehouse aisles.

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Drugmakers, Amazon Back Grail’s Big Cancer Trials With $900M

Xconomy

Last month, Grail publicly spread word of intentions to raise more than $1 billion in an ambitious quest to develop a blood test that can diagnose and detect cancer at its earliest stages. Today, the Menlo Park, CA, startup has revealed the crop of drugmakers and others it has secured to fund the effort. Grail said today that it has raised more than $900 million in a Series B round led by Arch Venture Partners.

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Snap Shares Soar 44 Percent

L.A. Business Journal

Snap Inc. made an explosive initial public offering on Thursday as the price of its stock rose 44 percent to close at $24.48 a share following its debut at $17.

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What is Conservation Mechatronics

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 -- What is Conservation Mechatronics. The Aerial and Aquatic Robotic Research Group (AARR) at CSU Channel Islands takes advantage of affordable and miniaturized electronics, small batteries, 3D printing, and open source development to build Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV.) Undergrads and middle schoolers now design, build, operate, and collect data using these tools.

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Snap Prices IPO, Debuts On NYSE Tomorrow

socalTECH

Venice, California-based Snap, Inc. has officially priced its IPO, saying on Wednesday afternoon that it will sell 200M shares of its common stock at $17.00 per share. The IPO will raise $3.4 billion for Snap, the company behind Snapchat , valuing the company at approximately $24 billion. The IPO is Southern California's largest, technology IPO in history, and makes founder Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy each instantly worth $3.58 billion each.

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Capital Stockpile Grows as Venture Fund-Raising Hits Recent High

Xconomy

In the venture capital business, a rising tide lifts all boats. That’s the idea, at least. A new report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook shows that U.S. venture firms have plenty of capital to invest in new companies, after 328 venture funds raised a total of $51.6 million in 2016. That’s a high-water mark for VC fund-raising in the post dot-com era.

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Silicon Beach Report March 3: Virgin Galactic Spins off Satellite Launch Division

L.A. Business Journal

Virgin Galactic spins off satellite launch division, NBCUniversal invests $500 million in Snap, and Mediation app Developer Headspace appoints new CEO.

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UCI ANTprenreneur Center: Ky Madden w/ Bzzz Bean

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, March 2, 2017 -- Ky Madden w/ Bzzz Bean. UCI ANTprenreneur Center. Ky Madden is a UCI Alumni, and founder of Bzzz Bean. Bzzz Bean provides your BZZZ with chocolate covered coffee beans and carefully selected coffee. Come hear more about his entrepreneurial journey. See https://www.eventbrite.com/o/uci-antrepreneur-center-8184153841.

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Snap's Big Winners: Spiegel, Murphy, Laskey, Benchmark, Lightspeed

socalTECH

Who are the big winners after the IPO pricing of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. on Wednesday afternoon? Obviously, co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy both have instantly been catapulted into the ranks of billionaires, with a net worth of $3.58 billion each in SNAP's publicly traded stock. Other big winners are venture investors Benchmark Capital , and General Partner Mitch Laskey , with just over $2.0 billion in stock after the IPO plus Lightspeed Partners with $1.39 billion in stock.

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10 Sales Truths Every Entrepreneur Needs To Practice

Startup Professionals Musings

Today’s customers are overloaded and overwhelmed by too much information, so making a decision is a challenge. You may think this is only important to your marketing and sales people, but in reality it doesn’t matter how great your product or technology might be, you won’t succeed if you don’t understand your target customer decision process. Every aspect of your business must be about sales.

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Virgin Galactic Spins off Satellite Launch Division

L.A. Business Journal

Virgin Galactic of Long Beach has spun off its small-satellite launch division into a new company called Virgin Orbit, according to a statement.

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LA CEOs

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, March 2, 2017 -- LA CEOs. LA CEOs presents: Belkin CEO, Chet Pipkin - Internet of Things (IoT)Chet Pipkin is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Belkin International based in Playa Vista, in the heart of Los Angeles. In his parents' garage in the early 1980s, he founded what became Belkin International and its three distinct brands, Belkin, Linksys, and WeMo.

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Double M Partners Raising New Fund

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based venture capital fund Double M Partners , which is run by Mark Mullen, is raising a new, $40M venture capital fund, according to a regulatory filing by the firm on Monday. The filing indicates that so far, $18.3M has been raised in the fund, from 49 different investors. Double M has invested in such companies as TheTradeDesk (IPO), Edgecast (acquired by Verizon), Orbitera (acquired by Google), Lettuce (acquired by Intuit), Gradient X (acquired by Singtel), MessageLabs (acquired

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5 Key Steps In Being A Role Model For Accountability

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s easy to say to people on your team that they must be accountable for their actions, but it’s not so easy to tell them how to do it. It’s even harder to give them the mindset of wanting to be accountable. In fact, many business leaders forget that they are the role model for accountability, and don’t audit their own actions to make sure that they always practice what they preach.

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Silicon Beach Report March 1: Snap Prices Shares at $17 for Thursday’s IPO

L.A. Business Journal

Snap prices shares at $17 for Thursday’s IPO, Hyperloop One pitching Indian government on system, and Snap Inc. said to be working on drone.

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The Art of QandA w/ Liz Goodgold

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 -- The Art of QandA w/ Liz Goodgold. UCI ANTprenreneur Center. LIz is a brand builder, “motivational speecher” and trainer, word girl and business coach. She will be discussing the art of QandA: How to Master Answering Questions Without Offending a Soul. See https://www.eventbrite.com/o/uci-antrepreneur-center-8184153841.

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Major Amazon S3 Outage Hits Internet

socalTECH

An outage at Amazon Web Services is causing major downtime across the cloud this morning, as sites which rely on the cloud storage service have been unable to reliably connect all morning. Such sites as the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission , Slack , Quora , and many others, have been unavailable since Amazon reported "increased error rates" out of its US-EAST-1 zone.

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10 Ways For Business Leaders to Improve Their Skills

Startup Professionals Musings

Being a successful business leader requires continuous improvement in your leadership skills, as well as your products and processes. If you don’t focus on it, you can expect to be one of the 25 percent of CEO turnovers that occur every year from firing or forced retirement, as reported by a recent Harvard study. Business leadership requirements change just like market requirements.

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E-sports Teams Draw Ppro Players With Money, Management

L.A. Business Journal

Gamers have become hot commodities as e-sports teams make a play for a bigger audience.

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LA Fintech Mix Mingle Network

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 -- LA Fintech Mix Mingle Network. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues February 28. Learn about the newest and fastest changes going on in financial technology. Finance is undergoing a massive change some call the "financial paradigm". Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?) are getting broken down with technological innovation in finance.

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VeloCloud, Backed By March Capital, Gets $35M More

socalTECH

VeloCloud Networks a , a developer of software defined, wide area networking (WAN) technology which is backed by Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners, has raised $35M in a big funding round, the company announced today. VeloCloud said it raised $35M in a Series D funding led by Hermes Growth Partners, and also included Telstra Ventures and Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the strategic investment fund of the Government of Malaysia, plus New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Venrock, March Capital Partn

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Why Good Marketing Campaign Costs Continue To Rise

Startup Professionals Musings

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a long time ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth.

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Silicon Beach Report Feb. 28: Double M Partners Raising $40M Fund

L.A. Business Journal

Double M Partners raising $40 million fund, Google launches YouTubeTV streaming bundle, and H3h3pProductions piles up legal bills.

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UCI ANTprenreneur Center Toastmasters Tuesday

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 -- UCI ANTprenreneur Center Toastmasters Tuesday. See https://www.eventbrite.com/o/uci-antrepreneur-center-8184153841.

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The Annenberg Foundation Seeks To Spur Philanthropy From LA's Tech Community

socalTECH

The Annenberg Foundation is announcing a new effort this morning, to spur more philanthropic moves by LA's growing technology sector, called AnnenbergTech. According to the charitable foundation, the leaders of LA's technology community today are "the philanthropists of tomorrow", and it is hoping its new effort will serve as a hub for that next generation.

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6 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Win More With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? The right answer is that not all of these are worth your attention, but it’s probably more than one. The “Tyranny of the OR” is a concept from the classic business best-seller “ Built to Last ,” by James C.

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Silicon Beach Report March 2: Snap Shares Soar 44 Percent

L.A. Business Journal

Snap shares soar 44 percent and Nimble raises $9 million.

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