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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

TechCrunch LA

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. The financing will be used to help students finance their Entity Academy tuition, which typically costs $15,000.

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Retention Science Inks Tie With SAP

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Los Angeles-based Retention Science , the. developer of big data software for online marketing, has a new partner in its corner: enterprise software developer SAP.

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Epicor Buys Solarsoft

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Epicor Software , the business and manufacturing software developer, said this week that it has acquired Solarsoft Business Systems. Solarsoft is a developer of midmarket, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, and was backed by Los Angeles-based private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Names New Marketing Head

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Los Angeles-based software developer Cornerstone OnDemand has a new marketing chief, saying on Wednesday that it has named Adrianna Burrows as the company's new Chief Marketing Officer. Burrows was previously at Stack Overflow, and previously also served as General Manager of Windows marketing at Microsoft.

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MySpace Extends APIs

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Los Angeles-based MySpace has released an upgrade to the firm's set of application programming interfaces, saying this morning that it has released an upgrade to MySpaceID, the firm's API for allowing other websites to access its information. The firm also said that it will be adding Google Android support soon. READ MORE>>.

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Hiring a CTO for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I have a great network of fellow CTOs, especially in the Los Angeles area. I've organized the LA CTO Forum (a private group of 150+ CTOs in Los Angeles) for 10+ years. If this person is from Los Angeles, I know I can easily find a few people who have worked with them. Then comes the in-person interviews.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

They need to be able to know the key Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder , figure out where/when/how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , In Los Angeles, I have easy access to a bunch of potential strategic technical advisors through the LA CTO Forum.