Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

I recently wrote a post about how to manage relationships when you’re at a startup or are busy executive. It was based on an excellent book I had just read by Brad Feld & Amy Batchelor (his wife). I had images in my brain of all of the stresses I had placed on my wife in the heyday of my startups. We once took a “vacation” in Spain with Tania’s parents but we were in the midst of an M&A transaction so this photo is how my wife & her family remember me on that

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. However, it appears the spirit of innovation and technology didn't leave Google's old space: instead, that office has become Real Office Centers (realofficecenters.com), an office center which on a recent Friday looked to have become somewhat of a hub for Silicon Beach's startup and investors.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 21, 2013

As part, of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Eucalyptus Systems' CEO, Marten Mickos shared his insights and advice regarding what it takes to be a serially successful entrepreneur. Marten has enjoyed a celebrated entrepreneurial career. As an early executive at MySQL, he helped build the company into the world's most used open source database.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 24, 2013

You’ve heard the old one – that a banker always seems willing to offer a loan when you don’t need it. For small businesses, there is such truth in that statement that you can trust the story to be based in reality from experience. There are great exceptions for growing businesses and for businesses that have a track record with a banker. Working capital loans and lines of credit are needed for growth and during times of business stress.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 -- "A Night of Innovators" Hosted by CSQ, StartEngine, and Sky Dayton, founder of EarthLink and Boingo. The winter edition of C-Suite Quarterly profiles and interviews dozens of Los Angeles' most prominent innovators and revolutionary entrepreneurs. Our cover feature Sky Dayton, creator of both EarthLink and Boingo, follows a precedent for the caliber of leaders we engage to share their insight and stories of success with our audience.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2013

Los Angeles-based Gobbler , the cloud-based media backup, file sharing, and collaboration software provider run by Chris Kantrowitz , has raised $1.5M in a funding round, the firm said today. The funding came from celebrities Ryan Tedder (One Republic), Jared Leto , and Troy Carter (Lady Gaga's business manager). Gobbler develops a cloud-based service, specifically aimed at musicians, for helping them send files, collaborate with others, and back up their music.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 23, 2013

Today, Los Angeles based PromoJam released their newest product to the world offering marketers something they haven’t had before – full control and insight into social campaigns. With PromoJam 2.0, marketers now have the power to create social media campaigns with no development or design skills required - just drag and drop. The Social Promotion Management Platform is for businesses of all types – small, medium and enterprise.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 -- StartEngine is pleased to present our latest class of startups at our Demo Day on Wednesday, January 30th at CrossCampus in Santa Monica. Nine founders with established business models and strong teams will introduce their companies, spanning from a wide range of industries including ad tech, consumer web, e-commerce, consumer tech, web marketplaces, gaming, and more.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2013

Santa Monica-based Retention Science , the developer of big data software being used to help e-commerce companies covert more customers, has linked into e-commerce engine Magento, the firm is announcing today. Magento said that it has added a new extension to Magento called the "Customer Profiling Engine", which will help online stores with automating personalized retention campaigns for customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

Mid-level or even top executives who “grew up” in large companies often look with envy at startups, and dream of how easy it must be running a small organization, where you can see the whole picture and it appears you have total control. In reality, very few executives or professional stars from large corporations survive in the early-stage startup environment.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

Swartz, 1986-2013, Image by Lalo Bontra. A young visionary with old wisdom whose success is a direct reflection of his intense focus and ability to wholeheartedly overcome challenges from the genuine intention of doing good, Aaron Swartz will forever be remembered as a modern day vigilante leading the battle against the injustice of the government suppressing our rightful freedom of knowledge.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2013

Saturday, January 26, 2013 -- Intro to the Los Angeles Startup Community. Sam Teller, Managing Director, Launchpad LA. This free class is an orientation to help newcomers to the startup scene get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in Los Angeles. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based Atlas Powered , a developer of software for managing calendar, task, and contact data on iOS and Android, has raised $700,000 in a funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and also included the Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and angel Clark Landry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2013

In reality, so-called “founder’s” shares are simply common stock, issued at the time of startup incorporation, for a very low price, and normally allocated to the multiple initial players commensurate with their investment or role. But that’s only the beginning of the story. These shares are allocated and committed, but not really issued and owned (vested) until later.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2013

You’ve seen the internet videos, maybe even spotted one in the wild, but outside of toothbrushes, inductive charging has been unusually absent from the US market. This year at CES, we chatted with a few representatives of the WPC , (Wireless Power Consortium) manufacturers that are adding wireless charging capabilities to their products, to lean exactly how the tech works, when it’s coming to market and how long will we have to wait to use it.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 19, 2013

Friday, January 25, 2013 -- SANDcamp 2013. The purpose of the event is to bring the Drupal CMS community together and celebrate the platform, find new ways to improve it, as well collaborate to share best practices with fellow Drupal users. Expect the weekend to be full of professional development with great after hour events, a distro-summit, and half-day training classes and workshops, kicking-off 2013 Drupal camps in style!

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2013

Among the new features of the social promotion tool released by Los Angeles-based PromoJam earlier this week: a new link to demographic data from Esri in it analytics. The tool, which lets users analyzing the web traffic from their promotions, lets users click into a map of where users are interacting with their promotions, and get detailed demographics data--household income, education, net worth, neighborhood data, and more--at the street level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2013

True leaders realize that, by definition, the word "leader" places the leader at the front, and not the rear. Yet many, many executives try to lead through fear and intimidation. This isn’t really leading at all. It’s pushing. In startups, leading from the front means that you are not afraid to get your hands dirty, pitching in to get the job done.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2013

Necessity is the mother of invention. Chris Johnson and his partner Tarek Pertew were once startup guys who founded a software company in New York, but within one year they lost their CTO three times. It appeared that recruiting was a bigger problem to solve. “What we recognized is that startups by their very nature cannot be very good at recruiting because they simply don’t have the staff, “ said Chris Johnson.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2013

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 -- ExecTec - The Future You. Yes most of the time it is about the company or the company you keep and or who/what you know but at the core it has always been about you! What are you doing for yourself?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In one of the newest "hackathons" to hit Southern California, a group of companies are looking to draw Orange County software developers to a new hackathon, geared around WebRTC, the open "Web Real Time Communications" framework aimed at helping developers create voice and video chat applications. Huntington Beach-based AnyMeeting , the provider of web conferencing tools, Influxis , a live streaming and real time application hosting provider, as well as TokBox , which develops an online video pl

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2013

These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. It’s time for every business and business person to proactively create a positive presence, before someone else puts you in a defensive mode that is hard to win.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow , the turnkey interactive food ordering platform, just raised $3 million in additional funding to launch new products and expand national operations. Funds were contributed by returning investor GRP Partners along with Double M Capitol, Karlin Ventures, LaunchPad LA and Daher Capitol, all local investors. ChowNow came out of incubator LaunchPad LA.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2013

Thursday, January 24, 2013 -- Venture Capital Process and Trends. UCI Chief Executive Roundtable. Robert R. Holmen, Managing Director, Miramar Venture Partners on "Venture Capital Process and Trends".

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet , the developer of software-as-a-service used for managing service contracts and service quotes for manufacturers and others, reported today that it has had a record year. The firm said it had year-over-year revenue growth of nearly 115 percent worldwide, and increased its staff by 60 percent. The firm did not disclose actual financials, but did say its platform was used to generate more than $2.3 billion in service contracts for its customers.

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Steve Reich

JANUARY 20, 2013

One of my favorite Dave Berkus quotes is: “Never, never, never run out of money.” But inevitably, it happens to some startups. What then? Your VCs and lenders will likely impose onerous terms, and your ownership will get badly diluted. The one group of investors you can count on to support you in a crisis are your Angels, and I saw two examples over the Holidays.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

In a move to improve protect data for firms, business transaction company CapLinked has today announced that it will offer military-strength protection to its clients data-in-transit. Manage & Close Complex Business Transactions. CapLinked’s online platform helps companies manage and close complex business transactions such as asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2013

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 -- Oracle CloudWorld 2013 - Los Angeles. Mobile, social, and cloud are redefining how business gets done. Immediate access to the latest technologies is essential to be able to innovate and thrive. Discover your next steps at Oracle CloudWorld.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2013

Fans of the once-cancelled soap operas "All My Children" and "One Life To Live" have a good reason to cheer today, as Hulu , the streaming video service based in Los Angeles, said it would bring the two soap operas to the service. Hulu said the revival of those titles come as part of an agreement with Prospect Park's The Online Network (TOLN). The two said that they will stream all new episodes of the two soaps on both the free Hulu.com and Hulu Plus subscription service, with 30 minute episodes

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

If your startup is looking for an Angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of Angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. Or does it? Actually numbers and locations are just the beginning. The challenge is to find the right Angel for you, and for your situation. Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

TechZulu had the pleasure again this year to help bring all the New Media Expo (NMX) 2013 Keynotes sessions live. If you missed out on the keynotes live we have all of them for you on demand. Dana White discusses The UFC’s rise to become one of the leading global sports brands through success with social media, community engagement and game-changing steps including connecting pro athletes with fans online.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2013

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 -- Getting Good Results from a Board of Directors and Board of Advisors. CONNECT. To stay competitive in today's marketplace, organizations frequently seek outside expertise to provide credibility, contacts, counseling and cash. Procopio Partner William Eigner will provide targeted advice on what entrepreneurs, directors and advisors need to know about recruiting, managing, incentivizing and showcasing a Board.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based SteelHouse , the developer of advertising targeting and behavioral marketing technology, is showing off some of its conversion rates, saying today that its clients are seeing 21 percent click through rates by using its technology. The firm develops technology to better target online consumers based on their behavior, allowing brands to retarget and otherwise engage with possible customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2013

Entrepreneurs are usually highly creative and innovative, but many innovative people are not entrepreneurs. Since it takes a team of people to build a great company, the challenge is to find that small percentage of innovative people, and then nurture the tendency, rather than stifle it. A while back I read a book titled “ The Rudolph Factor ,” by Cyndi Laurin and Craig Morningstar, which is all about finding the bright lights that can drive innovation in your business.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 23, 2013

ParkMe todayannounced that it has raised a new round of investment from LA based private equity firm Angeleno Group in a move that will fuel its expansion. ParkeMe is a comprehensive database and analytics software solution for on-street and off-street parking locations and availability and is a leading provider of dynamic and real-time parking data, analytics and services.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2013

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 -- Making SEO and Paid Search Marketing Work for Startups. Join Stubbs Alderton and Markiles, LLP for this exclusive event! Speaker: Corey Quinn, VP Business Development, The Search Agency, Inc. You'll learn: The most valuable thing you can do (and the cheapest) to get more visibility of your product / service; The 3 most important things you need to rank organically in the post Panda and post Penguin world; How to capture high quality leads with paid search and organic

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