socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a significant amount of capital from LA's latest fund: Karlin Ventures (www.karlinvc.com). We sat down with TX Zhuo , who is heading up the firm's venture investments, about the fund and his path here after a recent stint at Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors fun

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 22, 2012

This article previously appeared in Forbes. Not surprisingly, the most influential startup bloggers are those with the largest number of Twitter followers. However, given the rash of accusations regarding Internet personalities purchasing bogus followers, it seems fair to ask, "Which startup bloggers have the most legitimate Twitter followers?". If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 25, 2012

In past insights, we’ve explored data gathering and dashboards for tracking the most important information to manage your company. Every good executive has a set of critical data points that best alert him or her to the changes in the flow of business most important to note and in many cases to curb a negative trend early in the game. There is a truism you should internalize: Most all big problems start off as small problems.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Thursday, November 1, 2012 -- LA CEOs - Developing Relationships with the World?s Biggest Sports Leagues and Stars and How to Succeed. LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: Sports marketing maverick, Mark Skelly. Mark will share secrets about getting your product or service endorsed by professional leagues and top athletes. Confirmed RSVP is required.

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

If you're a woman with unwanted--but fashionable--clothing in your closet, which you wish you could sell, what's the easiest way to sell it? It might just be Tradesy (www.tradesy.com), a brand new service which lets women sell their unwanted clothing via a mobile app or website--and even takes care of dealing with shipping and returns. The site is the brainchild of Tracy DiNunzio , who took her experience running RecycledBride.com and is now applying the same concept to women's clothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Many startups fail before reaching that magic “cash-flow positive” position they have been striving for, despite seemingly reasonable financial projections. A closer analysis often indicates the cause to be a lack of diligence in handling common business finances. These mistakes are usually masked by excuses, like the economy turned on me, or my competitors played dirty.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Thursday, November 1, 2012 -- Get to Know MongoDB and What's New in 2.2. Hello everyone, we are extremely excited to announce our first meetup!! Based on your responses and bio?s, we will be having a speaker directly from 10gen!! Antoine Girbal has been with 10gen for almost 2 years and works on the core c++ code and java driver. Antoine will introduce us to MongoDB as well as some of the new features of the 2.2 release!!

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2012

A new, Los Angeles startup, Appetize , is looking to make it easier for sports and other event fans. Appetize said Wednesday that it has released a new version of its app, which lets fans at venues order from a menu and have food delivered right to their seat. The app--which runs on both iPhone and Android--is currently live at a number of concert and sporting venues in California, according to the company, including at the Valley View Casino Center, which is hosting Thursday's Laker's pre-seaso

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The Tech Crawl is back and in full swing heading to the Hollywood Tech Scene! This time around we are partnering up with Silicon Beach Fest to make it that much more awesome! For those of you who may have missed out you can checkout what Mediapost and D&B had to say about it: TZ Tech Crawl Takes Participants on a Tour of Silicon Beach. 2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2012

A popular approach for aspiring entrepreneurs these days seems to be to corner anyone who will listen, with a pitch on their current “million dollar idea.” The initial monologue usually ends with the question “How much money do you think this is worth?” In my humble opinion, ideas are a commodity, and are really not worth much, outside the context of a visionary leader and a plan.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 -- Demystifying Social Marketing. WITI. We invite you to join us for an enticing event on one of today?s hottest topics: Social Media and Marketing! Ever been confused about Social Marketing? Wondered if your plan was effective or not? Been unable to keep up with the rapid changes in Social Marketing? Lorin and Tom will first wipe away all the noise and confusions associated with social and Internet marketing.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

El Segundo-based integrated circuit maker International Rectifier said this morning that it has raised $100M in four year, senior unsecured credit facility. The funding came from a group of lenders led by Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, along with JP Morgan Chase Bank NA, HSBC Bank USA, National Association and Bank of the West. The company said the facility will go towards working capital, acquisition, stock repurchases, and other general corporate use.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. CHNL aggregates content from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, SoundCloud, Tumblr, Instagram and Flickr into one place making it fast, easy, and a beautiful way to discover content as well as to easily share it

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2012

More entrepreneurs want to be socially responsible these days, but fear a negative impact on profits, growth, and the ability to find an investor. In the short run, there are real costs associated with the “triple bottom line” of maximizing profit, people (social), and planet (environment). But very quickly, it is becoming obvious to startups that the value and satisfaction exceeds the costs.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Monday, October 29, 2012 -- Digital LA - Digital BOO! Hackoween Party. Join us for our big annual Halloween costume bash! Wear your fave Internet themed costume, cuz we're also celebrating the Birthday of the Internet. Yes, the Internet was born in LA on this day when a UCLA researcher first sent an info packet to Stanford in 1969.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Venice, California-based comedy startup Laffster said this morning that it has raised $750,000 in a funding round, which came from Greylock Partners, Howard Lindzon, Adam Nash (LinkedIn), Chris Williams (Maker Studios), Samer Hamadeh (Vault.com), Christopher Grey (CapLinked), Sonny Singh (Jumio), and The Paradigm Agency, along with others. The company--one of the startups out of Santa Monica's MuckerLab--helps users find funny videos, articles, and more.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Launched today Tradesy , a new website and mobile app hopes to unlock the hidden value of clothing resale. Tradesy is a peer-to-peer marketplace where women buy and sell new and gently used apparel and accessories. Tradesy’s mission is help women get more of the fashion that makes them look and feel great, while spending less. Founded by Tracy DiNunzio who in 2009 launched Recycled Bride, now the world’s largest wedding marketplace, Tradesy wants to solve one problem; turn each women’s o

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2012

It’s a well-accepted axiom in the investor community that entrepreneurs learn more from their failures than their successes. Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round. Yet, there is no doubt that the best strategy is to learn from someone else’s mistakes, so you can enjoy the millions that someone else lost in learning.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Saturday, October 27, 2012 -- Growth Capital Conference. Network with capital sources, advisors, deal makers and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital and counsel. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases atttractive firms needing growth capital.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2012

It had to happen sooner or later -- the startup world has its own parody of the hit song Gangnam Style. And, two local SoCal startups, UberMedia and PerfectMarket --both spinout of Idealab--are part of a set of startups who contributed to the hilarious parody of the South Korean hit (and now, international) hit. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. Journey is especially useful for companies that want to streamline their internal business processes. According to Embark Mobile Co-founder and Director Conrad Hofmeyr , businesses continue to rely on paper forms and manual work to capture data and execute business processes despite the inefficiencies, but mobile apps can solve these challenges, however businesses are reluctant to u

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2012

I hear many executives and professionals in large corporations talking about their dream of jumping ship, and starting their own company. What they don’t realize is that the longer they wait, the more big-company habits they are acquiring, which will make their eventual decision harder and entrepreneurial efforts less and less likely to succeed. Certainly, the longer they wait, the greater the variety of excuses they will find for why now is not the time.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Thursday, November 1, 2012 -- Turn Your Software App into SaaS in Days! How do you turn your software application into a fully operational, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), without investing a lot of time, programming resources, and money into the effort? Corent Technology, the emerging leader in Software to SaaS transformation is offering a complimentary and informative breakfast session hosted by IBM at IBM La Jolla office on Nov. 1 and IBM Glendale office Nov 7, both from 8:30-10:00.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

A new, Los Angeles startup BrandBounty is hoping to tap into the power of the crowd to help brands fight counterfeiting. The software developer--one of the companies that is part of Los Angeles-based StartupMinds--has a product which allows brands to offer virtual prizes, contests, and cash rewards to people to help them fight counterfeiting through reports from users of brand violations, such as unauthorized use of a company's products, logos, and trademarks.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

AlwaysOn based in Palo Alto, California is hosting its OnHollywood event on October 29 and 30 at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA. AlwaysOn will proudly announce the sixth annual OnHollywood 100 -the top companies that are disrupting the Hollywood establishment and creating viable business models for the digital entertainment marketplace. Museum of Flying.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. The answer is yes to all, and the challenge is how to choose how much of each, and how to integrate them for maximum impact and the least cost. None should be considered mutually exclusive to any other. The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Thursday, November 1, 2012 -- Women in Corporate Growth Luncheon. ACG101. Keynote speaker: Noel Irwin Hentschel Chairman and Chief Executive Officer American Tours International (ATI).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

DeveloperAuction , a Bay Area startup which is looking to let employers bid for engineers on an auction basis, has expanded into Los Angeles, beyond an initial launch in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Boston. The startup is looking to take advantage of the demand for developers by getting startups to "bid" on engineering talent. The startup lets engineers post their resumes for a 14-day auction, where multiple startups bid up what they're willing to pay that engineer to work at a comp

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

According to the founders, Contur is a virtual assistant that sorts and organizes your emails automatically. The founders add that Contur takes all of your emails, groups the related ones together so that you can see your emails in context. They say, “Think of a messy room as your inbox, and all the items in your room as emails. It’s much harder to be productive in a room where everything is strewn around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Every entrepreneur seeking funding loves the challenge of getting customers and investors excited, but dreads the thought of negotiating the terms of a deal with potential investors. They are naturally reluctant to step out of the friendly and familiar business territory into the unfamiliar battlefield of venture capitalists from which few escape unscathed.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Thursday, November 1, 2012 -- OCTANe Firsty. Join the OCTANe community and the Anteater network at Tamarind of London for Firsty on November 1. Network with over 200 people and meet members of the organization that focuses on fueling innovation in the OC and local UCI alumni.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Tradesy , a new website and mobile app developed by Recycled Bride 's Tracy DiNunzio, is launching Wednesday, with $1.5M in funding from Rincon Venture Partners, 500 Startups, Dany Levy (DailyCandy), Daher Capital, Bee Partners, Double M Capital and Launchpad LA. The Los Angeles-based startup has developed a service which makes it easy for women to take and sell their clothing, even handling returns and shipping.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

High tech startups--and the service providers who serve the industry--are continuing to cluster along Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, as Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , one of the Los Angeles legal firms focused on the high tech market, announced a grand opening date for a new office on the 3rd Street Promenade. Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles, which has had a long standing presence in the LA area (disclaimer: Stubbs Alderton is a sponsor of socalTECH), and told its supporters and c

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

El Segundo-based iRise , which develops software for prototyping enterprise applications, has extended its platform today by adding support for the iPhone 5, Windows 8, and Android Tablets. The firm said its software--which it used to prototype and help define enterprise apps--has been upgraded to support simulations for the latest mobile and tablet applications. iRise allows users to build functioning prototypes of enterprise apps without programming, allowing subject experts and end users to h

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , which develops software which helps people create iOS, Android, and web games, said Friday that its software now supports Windows 8 application development. The startup--which has been supporting Windows development since May--said its latest version, 0.10.0 supports Windows 8 and a number of the features of the Windows 8 environment.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

San Diego-based Independa , the provider of technology which helps to connect and remotely monitor seniors, to help them live independently longer, has raised $1M in an angel funding round. The funding was first publicly disclosed in a regulatory filing last week. According to reports , angels were the source of the new funding. Independa has also previously raised funding from such investors as City Hill Ventures and Miramar Venture Partners.

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