socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. Combine that with the growing startup community here, and you end up with at. intersection of technology and music. We've compiled a list of five of the startups that are revolutionizing some part of music, based here in Southern California.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. Kerri Pollard, President of Commission Junction shared her entrepreneurial insights as part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Like most powerful business principles, Kerri's secret for building and maintaining a healthy and innovative corporate culture is no secret - instill a humble conviction in your team.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 10, 2013

It is tempting to use available cash in good times to build the business and in challenging times to pay the bills and even to outdo competitors in marketing efforts. Those are both good strategies. But there is a tactic that we need to remember that just might save the business. Once a business has achieved breakeven and beyond, it should build a cash reserve equal to at least two months’ worth of fixed overhead to protect against unexpected internal or external emergencies, and to allow for

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 11, 2013

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -- StartEngine Mentor Mixer and Downtown Grand Opening with Deputy Mayor Matt Karatz - 1/15/2013. A night to mix and mingle with mentors, founders, the Downtown L.A. business community, and for our entrepreneurs to practice their pitch before demo day. LA-based startup accelerator StartEngine, in a partnership with TENTEN Wilshire, will open a new office at 1010 Wilshire Blvd to provide their startups with space and opportunities for growth across Los Angeles.

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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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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2013

FitOrbit , the online fitness service which offers up personal trainers and weight loss plans via the Internet, has tied itself with online dating site Chemistry.com , in what might be the first link between fitness and dating. FitOrbit, which is based in Santa Monica, is the online fitness and personal training startup started by Jake Steinfeld of "Body By Jake", offering up handheld guidance of a personal trainer via the Internet, and tracks fitness, meals, workouts, and more for users.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2013

Greetings loyal readers. 2011 was the year of the video interview, in which I spoke with the likes of Guy Kawasaki, Len Short, Brad Feld, Naval Ravikant and Steve Blank. In 2012,I added video from my UC Santa Barbara speakers, including Mark Templeon, CEO of Citrix; Kerri Pollard, President of Commission Junction; and Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 11, 2013

Thursday, January 17, 2013 -- SBIR/STTR Workshop. Each year the federal government awards technology grants to companies like yours to conduct research and develop innovations for the government. You can then convert the funded research project into commercial business opportunities. Attend this workshop to learn how to write successful proposals to any of the 11 government agencies that run Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2013

Fanmix , a startup developing "social inbox" software to manage a user's social conversations on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, comment threads, and elsewhere, has spun out of Los Angeles-based Social Engine , according to Social Engine co-founder and new FanMix head Charlotte Genevier. According to Genevier, she has left her position as CTO of SocialEngine to work on FanMix and turn it into a "real business".

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 10, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you on February 7, 2013 at 7pm , to a fireside chat with Clay Collins , Co-Founder of LeadBrite. Clay will be interviewed by our very own Espree Devora , known as “the Girl who Gets it Done” and creator of SaveBusinessTime. Clay will share his experience on how to build a profitable and bootstrapped SAAS startup that’s doubled in revenue almost every month since its inception.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

Every startup founder I know talks about the chaos of their business, which they usually attribute to that burst of growth that is required to get to positive cash flow. They envision a stable environment after that point, and may have convinced themselves that they will be safer and happier with a livable income, maintaining a loyal but flat customer base.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 10, 2013

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 -- Startup PR Bootcamp. Coloft. Learn the basic concepts of PR from the managing partners of one of LA's fastest growing launch-only PR firms. This workshop will cover the do's and don't's of startup PR, what to look for when hiring a PR firm, a PR pitch gone wrong, best practices for launch, and what to do when you cannot afford a PR firm.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

Online e-commerce giant Amazon.com just announced a new service this morning, which looks to be one of the biggest moves the company has made in digital music recently: it is now automatically providing MP3 format tracks for CDs sold on its site, including every single CD a user has purchased since 1998. Amazon said its new AutoRip service will automatically load a MP3 version of CDs purchase on the site, for immediate streaming or download by users.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2013

Santa Monica based ParkMe has partnered with INRIX , a leading international provider of traffic information and driver services to help drivers outsmart parking. ParkMe, a leading provider of dynamic and real-time parking data will bring its real-time and static Parking expertise and car navigation systems to INRIX. According to their partnership, INRIX will source data from ParkMe’s database of more than 18,000 parking facilities in North America both for in-car and mobile use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2013

Everyone can recognize a great manager a mile away, so why is it so hard to find one? We all remember a few that are “legends in their own mind”, but that doesn’t do it. In fact, the clue here is that the view in your mind is the only one that matters, rather than the other way around. Almost every one of us in business can remember that one special manager in their career who exemplifies the norm, who commanded our respect, and treated us like a friend, even in the toughest of personal or busin

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 9, 2013

Sunday, January 13, 2013 -- Los Angeles Hacker News Meetup - January. Los Angeles Hacker News Meetup is back, with a great line up of speakers and an opportunity to share what you've been hacking on.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

The Honest Company , the online brand offering up natural products for babies and families founded by Jessica Alba, has teamed up with daily deals site Zulily , the two said Wednesday afternoon. According to the two, they are in an exclusive partnership where Zulily will offer up things such as diapers and wipes to its users alongside its daily deals.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2013

New York City residents especially those in southwest Chelsea have a reason to smile due to a partnership that will see them get free WiFi. Up and running in Kansas City, Calif., Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Berkeley, S.C. Google Tuesday announced a partnership with the Chelsea Improvement Company , a nonprofit neighborhood redevelopment corporation working in southwest Chelsea, to provide free WiFi internet access to the southwest Chelsea community making it the first wired neighborhood in Manha

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 9, 2013

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -- Intro to Data Science and Analysis. General Assembly LA. Do you want to create a recommendation engine for your customers? Predict which employees at your company will leave or stay? Predict where your future sales will come from or whom to target with your next marketing campaign? In this course, we'll cover the basics of how to answer such questions using data, using examples from Ranker's aggregation and recommendation algorithms, Nate Silver's election prediction

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2013

The USC Marshall Institute for Communication Technology Management --which focuses on research in technology, communications and media--said this week that it has hired on a Cisco veteran to head up its strategy, research, and industry relations. The institute said it has appointed Josette Bonte as Chief Strategy Officer and Director of Research and Industry Relations.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 10, 2013

That’s right beacher’s! What better way to start of the new year then with a joyous celebration. TechZulu his helping PromoJam Launch their all new 2.0 Platform. New Year – New PromoJam!! and you are INVITED!! We’ve teamed up with PromoJam, Digital LA, The ROC and Silicon Beach LA to host the most epic 2013 Kick Off party with the Silicon Beach LA Tech Scene !!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2013

You are an aspiring entrepreneur, eager to dump the corporate grind, and work to the beat of your own drummer, but you can’t come up with that killer idea to save the world. What are the alternatives that will give you the independence you crave, and challenge your business acumen? Technically, I believe an entrepreneur is anyone who manages his own profit and loss, and doesn’t meet the government tax definition of an employee.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 9, 2013

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -- Green LAVA January 2013 Meeting. Green LAVA is starting off 2013 with a great event that you don't want to miss. Mikael Elley, Director of IT for Fisker Automotive, will be talking about the startup of one of the world's leading electric automotive companies.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Santa Monica-based CHNL , a startup which is developing a social content browser for smartphones, tablets, and PCs, said today at CES that it has launched a new daily deals feature into its product. The company said it has added daily deal tracking from both Groupon and LivingSocial into its service, letting users browse and see deals into their social feeds from CHNL.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 9, 2013

In a localization agreement addressed to Wim Elfrink , Cisco’s chief globalisation officer Cisco is paying elfrink US$ 700,000 this month and US$ 300,000 in January 2014 to accept a job in the US as its Executive VP, Emerging Solutions and Chief Globalisation Officer. According to the agreement Elfrink is supposed to have already began his job in the US.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. The cost of entry has never been lower. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 10, 2013

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 -- How To Live To Be A 100. TiE SoCal. See https://s08.123signup.com/servlet/SignUp?P=15217281911425753100andPG=1521728182300andInfo=.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Frequency , the developer of mobile, web, smart TV, and other apps which let users find and view online video content, has inked a deal with a Chinese TV manufacturer, the company announced today at CES. Frequency--which is led by Blair Harrison--said it has partnered with TCL, the 4th largest LCD TV producer worldwide, and China's top television manufacturer, to pre-install its app on all future TCL TV models.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 9, 2013

The Consumer Electronics Show, better-known as CES, is upon us, and we are all waiting to see who the big winners are going to be. Two weeks ago I found this new audio company Aedle, that have just created a pair of luxury audio headphones to die for! Then yesterday I read an article by Entrepreneur.com , which featured “5 Tech Startups Worth Watching at CES 2013″, and what do you know, Aedle made the top 5 tech startups to watch at this years Consumer Electronics Show.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2013

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Only the under-35 age group need apply. I will argue that times have changed, and you better take another look. First of all, the Boomer demographic is currently the single largest, mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 11, 2013

Thursday, January 17, 2013 -- Equity Structure and Valuation: How much equity do I need to need to give to an investor? LAVA. Moderated by Rochelle Nakajima, CPA and senior manager at CohnReznick. Featuring panelists: Jeffrey A. Bobrosky, CPA and partner at CohnReznick and the leader of the Firm's Technology/Life Sciences Industry Practice in Los Angeles, Melisa Silverman, partner and senior appraiser at American ValueMetrics Corp, a national, boutique valuation services firm providing defensibl

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

It looks like competition is heating up in the smart parking market--and for local parking technology firm Parkme , which is based in Santa Monica--as yet another company announced Thursday more funding for giving consumers real-time information about available parking spaces. Competitor Streetline , which is based in the Bay Area, just announced a big, $25M Series C funding from True Ventures, Citi, and Qualcomm, which will go towards its "smart parking" products and applications.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 7, 2013

Learn about the latest digital media tools & gadgets being unveiled at New Media Expo and CES. If you’re not among the thousands of geeks converging on Las Vegas this week, don’t fret. The TechZulu team has been dispatched to bring you all the action. Join host Amanda Coolong as she reports LIVE from the show floor at New Media Expo, getting the inside scoop on all the latest digital media tools.

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Media Tool Entertainment Report 77

socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2013

Santa Monica-based real time parking information provider ParkMe has announced a deal with traffic data provider INRIX , the company said at CES Tuesday, which will bring ParkMe's parking information to INRIX. Financial details of the deal were not announced. According to ParkMe, INRIX will source data from ParkMe's database for both in-car and mobile use.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based online event promotion service Planana , the startup founded by Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao, said Thursday that the company has been accepted to the DreamIt Ventures Winter 2013 class in Austin, Texas. The startup said that it will be demonstrating its products at SXSW at March 8th, at the conclusion of the program. DreamIt Ventures is one of the many accelerator programs around the country focused on getting early stage startups off the group.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

Online advertising firm YieldMetrics said Thursday morning that it has raised $1.7M in funding, which was led by GRP Partners, and also included Baroda Ventures , Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , Daher Capital , Double M Capital , Karlin Ventures , Launchpad LA, as well as angels. The firm's founders as Gabe Gottlieb and Tom Lorimor. YieldMetrics tool is aimed at publishers, advertisers, and advertising technology providers, to provide better analytics on advertisers.

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