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JULY 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based hosting provider Dreamhost has tapped into an interesting source of funding to help provide training to its employees: a grant from the State of California. The hosting provider said it has received $288,200 from the state's Employment Training Panel (ETP) to help provide training to its nearly 200 employees.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

lynda.com , the online learning and video instruction site based in Carpinteria, is putting some of its new funding to work, saying this morning that it has acquired video2brain, GmbH , a European online video training company, to help expand its services worldwide. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Fullerton-based Digsy has rolled out a new, sales software platform specifically aimed at helping commercial real estate brokers better manage their sales teams. The startup said the new software helps commercial real estate pros convert more prospects into deals. The startup is led by CEO Andrew Bermudez. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Mindflash.com , an online training platform site headed by former Mint.com Chief Marketing Officer Donna Wells, said this week that it has officially launched its online trianing platform. The firm says it is targeting small businesses, and offers a way to help those businesses provide employee training.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of cloud-based software for talent and employee management, said it has launched a brand new product called Cornerstone Insights. Cornerstone OnDemand said the new product uses machine learning and Cornerstone's data set, to help companies better recruit, train, and manage people.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

Degreed , which helps businesses upgrade the skills of their staffers through an online gateway to learning resources, announced Thursday it has raised $75 million to grow the service and expand internationally. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Gretel.ai's privacy technology helps generate synthetic data, which preserves privacy, but can help provide data sets for training machine learning and AI models. The company says its software provides that data without containing sensitive or personally identifiable information. is led by CEO Ali Golshan.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

El Segundo, California- and Austin, Texas-based Slingshot Aerospace says it has launched a new, educational space simulation tool, which it says is aimed at workforce preparation, training, and education. The company said the tool was created with the help of Hollywood visualization studio THE THIRD FLOOR.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

help you integrate your product with other systems making it harder for your product to be replaced by competitors. deliver profitable revenue that while on gross margins of 50% vs. software at 85-95% it is still profits to help you cover fixed costs. That is the software business. rollout support. configuration.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Shopify , which develops software for merchants to set up e-commerce, mobile, social media sites, online marketplaces, bricks-and-mortar stores, and more, is setting up a space for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

Don’t you wish you were better at saying “no” to all those extraneous requests for a bit of help at work? For example, as a software executive, I once had a talented engineer working for me who was always helping others, to the extent that he consistently missed his own project deadlines, and was ruining his health through lack of sleep.

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APRIL 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based talent and human resources management software developer Cornerstone OnDemand said today that its non-profit arm, the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation, has launched a new effort called DisasterReady.org. cornerstone ondemand disaster relief training nonprofit software saas' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

According to Cornerstone OnDemand, the new content will "help Digital Natives develop skills they need to thrive in the modern workplace." Cornerstone OnDemand provides workforce training and learning software, used for performance management, human resources, employee learning, and other efforts. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

Redlands-based geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping tools developer Esri has linked up with another company, BuildingFootprintUSA , the help improve the "geocoding" of locations within its ArcGIS platform.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software to help multi-location brands manage the mobile experience of their customers, said Monday that it has named Kyle Koch as Global Vice President, Client Success. MomentFeed said that Koch will be in charge of its success management, training and professional services functions.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Los Angeles-based software company QualityWorks said this week that it is offering up a free, bootcamp for people in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community, to learn about software testing.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Los Angeles-based Alelo , which develops computer-aided training and simulation for the U.S. Department of Defense, says it has received a new set of contracts to provide cultural awareness training for the Levant, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Alelo said its new cultural awareness training courses help the U.S.

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JULY 25, 2011

The Santa Barbara-based arm of Citrix Systems , which develops GoToMeeting and other online communications and sharing software, said today that it ad tied its GoToTraining training software with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

El Segundo, California- and Austin, Texas-based Slingshot Aerospace said this morning that it has received $2M in funding to go towards developing of a new, space training simulation tool for the U.S. Space Force. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 6, 2017

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand has launched a number of new products today, including Cornerstone Realize, a software implementation service, and Cornerstone Engage and Cornerstone Benchmark, two products aimed at employee engagement and benchmarking. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Santa Monica-based InvolveSoft , which develops software to help companies encourage their employees to volunteer for events and help contribute to their local communities, has raised $2.5M in a funding round, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Irvine-based Kajabi , which develops a platform that helps both individuals, as well as small- and mid-sized businesses monetize online courses, training materials, and other content, has receive an investment from private equity investor Spectrum Equity. Financial details of the minority growth investment were not announced.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? Most are not event addressing it, and even in the instances they are, the typical format is to have a specialist come in for a workshop, to train just small percentage of an organization.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

According to FOCUS, its fitness app--TRAINR--uses the Samsung Galaxy Gear to provide custom training programs, tracking exercises, repetitions, sets, and rest periods. The company said its app also uses motion sensors to track a user''s exact movements to help users practicing resistance and body weight training.

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JUNE 28, 2016

Irvine-based cybersecurity services and software provider CrowdStrike said today that it has launched a new, bundle of software specifically aimed at breach prevention at companies. CrowdStrike also said it is bundling together online technical training sessions from its instructors on each of the packages, as well.

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JUNE 10, 2015

Redland-based GIS software maker Esri is contributing its software to help deal with climate change in developing countries, the company said Tuesday, in support of the White House Climate Action Plan. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Some of those patterns help us to spot and avoid problems we have seen play out in the past, often to disastrous conclusion. I just helped an entrepreneur to consider reorganizing his young business from being a value-added reseller into a software and consulting company. Investor pattern match.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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JULY 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based HyreCar , which operates a car sharing marketplace, said today that it is in a strategic partnership with DriveItAway , a car dealership company that offers up turn-key software, insurance, and training to help car dealerships aimed at the ridesharing market get off the ground.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Gardena-based toy maker Educational Insights said this morning that it has launched a new product, a "coding robot" which is designed to help kids learn how to write their own software. According to the company, its new robot, Artie Max, helps kids learn five coding languages (Blockly, Snap!,

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Alelo--which originally spun out of USC--said they have been partially funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, to build a project called VRP (Virtual role-playing) Builder, which is aimed at helping to make it easier to develop virtual role playing-based learning courses.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

One strategy that can help ensure teams use meeting times efficiently is to notify staff ahead of time about what will be covered in a call so they can prepare ahead of time and waste less time during the meeting trying to get on the same page. Train Your Staff and Offer Skill Improvement Opportunities.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 19, 2023

So, let’s bend the meaning to help us focus on resources while preserving those words. We should always be thinking of how to maximize the efficiency of our most critical resources constrained by limited time, whether they be in R&D, on the production floor, the chief software architect, or even you in management.

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JUNE 2, 2011

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara , a venture capital investment group based in Santa Barbara, has invested $4M in funding for a developer of a web-based cloud training software firm, Mindflash , Mindflash said today. Mindflash, which is based in Palo Alto, offers a site which helps companies create online training courses.

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Xconomy

JULY 25, 2019

Castle Biosciences is joining the public markets through a $64 million IPO that will support cancer tests that help doctors make treatment decisions. On Wednesday evening, Castle priced its offering of 4 million shares at $16 apiece, which was the high end of its targeted price range. million shares in the range of $14 to $16 each.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

PICS Auditing , a software-as-a-service developer which provides contractor screening and credentialing software, has raised $35M in a funding round, the firm sai dtoday. PICS is headed by John Moreland, and helps large organization mange their contracts, suppliers, and vendors. READ MORE>>.

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