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AUGUST 16, 2014

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? entrepreneurs high-tech startups street-smart' Even if they realize that they need real technical strength at the top, they are not sure how to attract and select the talent and expertise they really need. Are you there?

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MARCH 27, 2013

Hollywood-based io/LA , the high tech and creative incubator and coworking space, has shut down, the first loss of one of Southern California's new crop of high tech gathering spaces. The loss was first reported by the LA Business Journal.

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JULY 17, 2012

You may not see it here in Southern California's high tech sector--which has been booming, due to a surge of startup and accelerator activity--but apparently, the technology sector has seen its highest level of layoffs in three years, according to a report today. Image courtesy Bigstock.com READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2011

The Kauffman Foundation speculated that the economy and high unemployment has pushed individuals into starting up sole proprietorships, while avoiding hiring employees. The report covers all business entrepreneurs, not just those in the high tech industry.

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MAY 16, 2014

The company is the first one to publicly report severe damage in the fires, although countless San Diego area high tech companies sent their employees home on Wednesday and Thursday due to the fires ranging across the area. The company said none of its 70 employees were injured in the fire.

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JULY 26, 2019

the underground, high tech transportation company run by Elon Musk, has raised $120M in a funding, which reportedly came from 8VC, Vy Capital, and Future Ventures. According to the report from Bloomberg, the new funding values Boring. Los Angeles-based Boring Co. , Co at $920M.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

billion from 2008 to 2009, according to a report released this week. According to the Trade in the Cyberstates 2010 report released by the TechAmerica Foundation, however, California still had the most number of high-tech exports of any state--$41.3M. California's leading tech export partners were Mexico ($5.3

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand has joined the club of local high tech companies to cross the $100M in annual revenues mark, after reporting Tuesday that it had full year revenues of $117.9M, up 56 percent year to year.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Venice, California-based Snapchat has begun discussing an IPO with bankers, but has yet to select an investment bank to lead the effort, according to a report on Wednesday. Snapchat reportedly is looking at an IPO towards the end of this year or in early 2017.

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JULY 7, 2010

Calabasas-based National Technical Systems , a provider of engineering services, reported today that its Test Systems Engineering Division has been selected by Boeing. NTS provides engineering services to the defense, aerospace, telecom, automotive, and high tech markets. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Despite the announcement this week that Google has plans to hire more than 30,000 employees by the beginning of next year, and reports today that it was overwhelmed with over 75,000 job applications this week, those plans do not appear to have yet impacted Google's jobs listings in Southern California.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Camarillo-based Semtech , a developer of analog and mixed signal semiconductors, reported a design win today, with Taiwanese company YUAN High-Tech Development Co., According to Semtech, YUAN has integrated its technology into a new line of Software Defined Video over Ethernet (SDVoE) products.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Ross Levinsohn , the publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times --and longtime, influential veteran of Southern California's high tech industry--is under investigation by the owner of the LA Times, Tronc, after an in-depth examination of Levinsohn's conduct by NPR during his time in the high tech industry.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. billion invested in Q2. The largest deal in the quarter was for Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

OCTANe , the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The last direct flight from Santa Barbara to Silicon Valley, on a route run by SkyWest Airlines, is being discontinued, according to reports. The news was first reported by local Santa Barbara publication the Daily Sound.

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JULY 18, 2013

The report comes every quarter from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. By far, the largest investment category for the quarter was software--helped by Snapchat--with $177.872M in investments for Q2, according to the report. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Without all of you, we wouldn't be able to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The first, high tech test tunnel built by LA's The Boring Company , bored between the SpaceX parking lot and a home in Hawthorne, California, is almost complete, and will open to the public on December 10th, according to Boring Company and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Opens Dec 10 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 30, 2019

In a previous life, John Underkoffler spent his days in Los Angeles dreaming up all of the possible ways men and machines would interact as a science adviser on films like Minority Report. The first bolt in the quiver of tools that Underkoffler began building out over the course of 15 years spent at MIT’s Media Lab was Mezzanine.

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MARCH 7, 2012

The assets of Pasadena-based Energy Innovations are set to go up for auction on March 20th, according to auctioneer Heritage Global Partners, as the firm continues to wind down. Energy Innovations--which had entered the solar market late--was backed by Idealab and Mohr Davidow Ventures.

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MARCH 12, 2010

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Safire Partners (www.safirepartners.com). Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (www.biztechlaw.com). Technology.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Looking to reach Southern California's high tech executives and. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. tech economy, with interview with the movers and shakers in the industry, coverage of. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vision To Reality Program for Emerging Tech Companies.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Safire Partners (www.safirepartners.com). Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (www.biztechlaw.com). Technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? Even if they realize that they need real technical strength at the top, they are not sure how to attract and select the talent and expertise they really need. The right answer for a good business partner today is neither of the above.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Port of Los Angeles reported late Friday that it has received a preliminary award of $41M, from the California Air Resource Board (CARB), for a high tech hydrogen fuel cell freight project.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Once again, we'd like to thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. They include: Sponsors. Technology.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Oblong is best known for inspiring the high-tech user interfaces in the Tom Cruise film "Minority Report"; the company now sells its systems to fortune 500 enterprise customers for use in collaboration. According to Glowpoint, the un-named customer has deployed Oblong to a new office complex in Southeast Asia. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

An uncontrolled, raging fire in Ventura County--which started in Santa Paula last night around 6:45pm, and rapidly spread to more than 25,000 acres early on Tuesday morning--is directly impacting the high tech corridor in Ventura County.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

APRIL 10, 2008

California's high-tech industry added more than 21,000 jobs last year, and is maintaining its place as the nation's industry leader. According to the AeA 2008 Cyberstate's report, California's technology workers earned an average wage of $101, 200 (112% above the state's average private-sector wage.)

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. billion dollars of regional GDP. But even this is changing.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Technology.

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JUNE 18, 2019

A new report , published by startup networking organization AngelList , says that Los Angeles is losing out to such areas as the Bay Area and New York, because of failure to offer up training to newly graduating engineering graduates.

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JANUARY 27, 2009

Adding to the list of local high tech companies reporting a strong fourth quarter, despite the economy, Los Angeles-based mobileStorm said this week that it added more than 200 new clients, and saw "strong" fourth quarter revenues. The privately held firm said that during 2008, it grew it revenues by 63 percent.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Instead, I worked at a small software startup where I reported directly to the Founder and CEO. Although he is a charismatic leader with rich and insightful experiences, Dr. Robert''s knowledge of the high-tech, startup world is limited. This was a fulfilling experience, as I was in my twenties and fairly clueless.

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