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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. “I n media and entertainment there are lots of isolated studios around the world.

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With $40 million for AuditBoard’s risk and compliance toolkit, LA’s enterprise startups notch another win

TechCrunch LA

Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard , a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif. I couldn’t believe there wasn’t a software for compliance and risk,” Lee said.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack.

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Making The Most out of Sitting on Panels

Both Sides of the Table

Entertain – It is also your job to entertain! You can’t show up with your monotone voice and have a deeply intellectual discussion like you might over brandy and cigars. It spices things up and makes for great entertainment. Follow up ! From there we just started to get to know each other.

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Taking Your Startup Public Is Fraught With Negatives

Startup Professionals Musings

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 less than half the rate of 15 years ago. Startups going public are laid open to competitors and critics.

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Biggest conferences coming up for startups in 2017

StartUp Beat

What do entrepreneurs do when they finally establish their startup? Do they hibernate in their offices, trying to come up with creative solutions? Or do they read up on other success stories for inspiration? Europe’s largest invitation-only event for early-stage startups, set in Cologne, Germany emerges in its 7th iteration.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup.

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