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Tech Scenes: Brew Johnson of Peerstreet

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In this solo episode we meet up with Brew Johnson of Peer Street and talk about the advantage of being in Manhattan Beach, giving everyone access to investments that were previously available to the select few, unlocking an the entire ecosystem of investors, borrowers and lenders, and transforming an industry through innovation.

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Insights and Opinions: 5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make While Raising Capital

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What are some of the more common mistakes entrepreneurs make when raising capital? Jackson , the CEO and co-founder of Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , shares his top five for our Insights and Opinions section. But entrepreneurs often make the process harder on themselves by committing several common mistakes.

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Tech Scenes: Nick Green of Thrive Market

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In this solo episode we meet up with Nick Co-Founder and Co-CEO and talk about Thrive Market, affordable healthy living, learning how to mange 'insane' growth, giving back, providing engineers a good reason to migrate south to Los Angeles, and as an entrepreneur solving a problem you care about.

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Morphlabs Signs Colocation Firm

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Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the developer of cloud deployment products, announced this morning that it has partnered with Telx , a colocation and interconnection provider, to enable a hosted private cloud product. The firm is the latest company run by open source serial entrepreneur Winston Damarillo. READ MORE>>.

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Morphlabs Gets $1.0M From Strategic Partner

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Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the provider of software for managing private and public cloud infrastructure, has raised $1M in funding from a strategic partner, the firm said this week. Morphlabs is headed by serial entrepreneur Winston Damarillo. READ MORE>>.

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Morphlabs Takes On Solid State Storage

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Manhattan Beach-based MorphLabs is rolling out a new piece of cloud software today, focused on solid state drive (SSD) storage. Damarillo is a repeat entrepreneur, who has a number of successes in the open source software market; he's probably best known for starting and building GlueCode software, and selling it to IBM.

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DONE Ventures Sues Sedo Over Women.com, Women.net

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Manhattan Beach-based DONE! Padnos is a serial entrepreneur, who sold his last startup, BetterPPC, in September of 2008 to Tsavo, the media startup headed by current MySpace head Michael Jones. According to DONE! and NBC have a trial date set for December 13th. READ MORE>>.