Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Aside from visionary management, this is your most important job. Close. Many of us go through the motions of hiring to fill a position, trying to use our intuition and skills to find the best candidate for the job. Sometimes we use consultants or recruiters; often we use internal talent to fill most positions. And over the years, we students of business success have learned that there is a science to the hiring process that continues through the life of an employee’s tenure with the company.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Whether you’re an older gamer who remembers the Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis with great fondness or a doting grandparent who doesn’t remember exactly what the grandkids wanted (the Nintendo Swamp or something?), the new AtGames portable consoles will either excite you to no end or cause deep disappointment. These crazy little consoles contain dozens […].

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. and L.A. County Board Chair Mark Ridley-Thomas want the county to spearhead regional efforts to attract Seattle-based Amazon Inc.’s second headquarters, according to a letter obtained Tuesday by the Business Journal.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , the equity crowdfunding site led by serial entrepreneur Howard Marks, told its supporters on Friday that it is planning to launch a new, equity crowdfunding effort: for itself. According to StartEngine, in an email to investors in earlier equity crowdfunding efforts on its site, that in the coming weeks, StartEngine will be offering its own shares to investors.

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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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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Wednesday, September 20, 2017 -- AFCOM SoCal. Security within the data center environment is one of the most crucial elements of data and asset protection. From cyber security to outsourcing security management, the importance of implementing a robust security program is paramount to virtually all information technology and critical infrastructure operators.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Whether you’re an older gamer who remembers the Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis with great fondness or a doting grandparent who doesn’t remember exactly what the grandkids wanted (the Nintendo Swamp or something?), the new AtGames portable consoles will either excite you to no end or cause deep disappointment. These crazy little consoles contain dozens of Atari or Genesis games.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Irvine-based Cie Digital Labs (CDL) said this week that it has named Jim Davis as the company's new Entrepreneur in Residence. Davis previously served at at eBay and Pepsi, and is Managing Partner at early stage venture capital investor Rezven Partners. Cie Digital Labs, led by Anderee Berengian, recently has focused on helping brands and also startups take their ideas and turn them into new technology ventures.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Tuesday, September 19, 2017 -- Los Angeles Fintech VC Mix Mingle Network. Cast your vote for 2017 LA Fintech Awards HERE. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues September 19th. 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?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

San Antonio —Northrop Grumman, the military contractor that makes everything from cybersecurity systems to fighter planes, has signed a five-year lease on a new property at Port San Antonio, where officials are trying to entice more cybersecurity businesses to move. Northrop (NYSE: NOC ) is going to occupy a 7,700 square-foot building at the Port, which was established as a public entity to attract new businesses and jobs to San Antonio by redeveloping an old 1,900-acre Air Force base.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Belkin unveils wireless charging pad for iPhone 8 and iPhone X, The Africa Channel sets launch of subscription VOD service and SpaceX assessing if any damage was done to its Florida launch facility.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based Hopscotch , a venture backed startup which develops mobile app technology used for fan engagement, says it has now created the official mobile app for more than 40 college athletic programs. The company--which is backed by $12.5M in funding from Mosaik Partners--says it powers the official football fan apps for Oregon, Auburn, Baylor, Ole Miss, Michigan State and many others.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Saturday, September 16, 2017 -- First Time Entrepreneur Workshop. LAVA. KAVA is extremely pleased to announce its next First Time Entrepreneur training program. The program is open to entrepreneurs that are starting companies in areas that are likely to draw venture capital investment. The program is not open to service providers. You are encouraged to apply today for one of the 12 slots open in our workshop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate of 15 years ago. Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

StartEngine plans to raise money through crowdfunding, Pelican Products unveils iPhone 8 and iPhone X cases and Snapchat expands Emmy Awards coverage under three-year deal.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

SpaceX has just released a massive roll of video of all of the landing failures which occurred in its quest to land its Falcon 9 rockets, before it finally managed to reach success in landing its boosters. Elon Musk, who released the video early this morning, said it was a "long road to reusability" of the Falcon 9, and said the company is now working on reusing the upper stage and fairing of the Falcon 9.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Saturday, September 16, 2017 -- UCLA Extension Open House at Woodland Hills.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Technology in the classroom has come a long way since its advent in the 1920s, when teachers would air radio broadcasts about topics relevant to their lesson plans. Ten years later, in the 1930s, the overhead projector debuted to display material for the whole class to see all at once, followed by the launch of the Scantron grading system in the 1970s to speed up the standardized testing process.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

AeroVironment antennae extends range of drones, JibJab launches camera sticker app and personalized cartoons with NFL and Happy Returns raises $4 million.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Los Angeles-based HyperLoop One , one of the startups working to bring Elon Musk's vision of a high speed, tube-based transportation system to life, says it has named a list of the ten most promising routes for Hyperloop, and also inked a feasibility study agreement in Colorado around its systems. The company said that, as a result of its Global Challenge competition--which solicited proposals for the best Hyperloop networks connecting cities and regions--it has inked its first agreement with a

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. You need to have business relationships with team members, investors, customers, and a myriad of other support people. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Co

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

All innovation and companies start off as an idea. Some will gain more traction than others over time, but we at Xconomy think that big ideas—and the people and companies in Boston’s life sciences community bold enough to try to implement them—are worth celebrating. Some of those ideas even go against conventional thinking. Here are the finalists in the Big Idea and Contrarian categories of the Xconomy Awards.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Hulu content spending to hit $2.5 billion in 2017, SpaceX reveals rocket landing blooper reel and Snapchat launches Bitmoji augmented reality feature.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Elon Musk , the CEO and founder of SpaceX, has posted another photo of the company's new spacesuit design, this time against the company's Dragon Crew capsule. SpaceX has been working towards launching astronauts into space on its Falcon 9 rockets. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. In fact, they need an early focus on developing their moral compass, as well as setting the right ethical tone. Building an ethical business is more than just compliance and meeting legal requirements, and it has big paybacks.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The editors at Xconomy have been working hard the last few weeks putting together the program for the Xconomy Awards Gala. We are really excited to announce the two winners of the Xconomy Lifetime Achievement Award. Lita Nelsen, MIT (retired) Lita Nelsen (pictured left) played a pivotal role in transforming Kendall Square and Boston into the hotbed of tech and biotech it is today.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Elon Musk reveals complete SpaceX spacesuit, The Guardian leaves Rubicon Project for OpenX and Wolfcom introduces new police camera.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Santa Monica-based ICONIC Protein , a protein dairy drink brand, announecd today that it has raised $8M in a funding round. The funding was led by KarpReilly, and also included angel Bill oses, the entrepreneur behind KeVita, Casa Barranca Organic Winery, and Fermented Sciences. ICONIC Protein says it makes a line of protein drinks made with grass-fed dairy from New Zealand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Running a business would be so much easier if we didn’t have to deal with office politics. Every business professional not only have to deal with their own office politics, but also with those in their customer offices, vendors, and partners. According to some sources , 47 percent of workers feel that office politics take away from their productivity, and is one of the top 10 stressors.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Halozyme Therapeutics has turned a method of delivering a drug more conveniently into partnerships with several large pharmaceutical companies that want to see their infusible drugs delivered via injections instead. The San Diego biotech company’s list of alliances is now getting longer. Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY ) announced Thursday that it will pay $105 million up front to license Halozyme’s (NASDAQ: HALO ) technology to develop injectable immuno-oncology drugs.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

We have really big news, California! We are relaunching ourselves as SCE Carrier Solutions with a brand new look and website. As a division of Southern California Edison (SCE) and a leading provider of fiber optic network solutions for carriers and enterprises in Southern California, we are positioning ourselves to better serve our clients now and in the future.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This morning's interview with an entrepreneur is with Bertrand Patriarca , the CEO of Los Angeles-based startup WashOS (www.washos.com). WashOS runs an on-demand, car washing service. We caught up with Bertrand, who had been an entrepreneur in France, to learn why he moved to Los Angeles to start WashOS, and how his experience here in LA as an entrepreneur compares to his time in France.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Given the size and diversity of the life sciences community in the Boston area, we at Xconomy knew that many candidates would be so unique that they wouldn’t fit neatly into a category. So we gave them a category of their own. These finalists represent the wide range of talent—from investors to entrepreneurs and thought-leaders—that together make the Boston biotech hub such a strong one.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Santa Ana-based Ducommun said on Monday that it has completed the acquisition of LS Holdings Company , the parent company of Huntington-based Lightning Diversion Systems (LDS). Ducommun said it paid $60M in cash for LDS, which develops lightning protection systems used in the aerospace and defense industry. Ducommun is a manufacturer of electronics, aerospace, defense, and industrial systems.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Santa Monica-based customer relationship management software developer Nimble , led by CRM software veteran Jon Ferrara, has launched a new, add-in for Microsoft Outlook on Android. According to Nimble, the new plugin for Outlook provides information on people, company profiles, and more for Android users. The new plug-in is free, but offers up additional features for business and sales teams as an add-on feature.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Santa Barbara-based real estate software developer Yardi says it has launched yet another website to help victims of a hurricane find housing. Yardi said that it has launched a dedicated housing registry for people who were displayed by Hurricane Irma, to help them find temporary or permanent homes in the affected and surrounding areas. The site is the second created by Yardi in the last two weeks for victims of a hurricane.

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