socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2015

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature contributions from our readers and the community, we have a bit of advice from angel investor Dave Berkus , who says, Raise Money On Good News. The first rule for raising money is to do it on good news � right when sales are increasing at an increasing rate.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based Tumbleweed , a new startup founded by Shaun Neff and Cisco Adler, said Thursday that it has launched a brand new news app, specifically aimed at Milllennials. The company said it is looking to "crack the Millenial news code" to get the younger generation interested and talking about news.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 24, 2019

Some of these entrepreneurs starting a new company are alumni from companies that would be a competitor to the enterprise being created or joined. Rules about non-compete agreements . So, what are the rules about those pesky non-compete agreements signed upon your discharge, or upon the sale of your previous company?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 24, 2019

Some of these entrepreneurs starting a new company are alumni from companies that would be a competitor to the enterprise being created or joined. Rules about non-compete agreements . So, what are the rules about those pesky non-compete agreements signed upon your discharge, or upon the sale of your previous company?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A new report issued today by Silicon Valley Bank, says that startups are generally optimistic about their business opportunities, and they plan to raise capital and expand their workforces this year, despite "economic and political" uncertainty across the globe. SVB posted its full report online. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

There's nothing particularly unique about what Selz does. The post Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses appeared first on Tech.co. Nothing is changing for our customers at this time, and we’ll be in touch with customers as and when we have further updates. App required. ?. App required. See Deals*.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Let me start with the news that I’m excited to share with you. After years of trying to persuade Kara Nortman to become a partner at Upfront Ventures I can officially announce now that she’s joined us effective immediately.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As of an August Pew Research study , 43 percent of Americans report “often getting news online,” just seven percentage points lower than the number who get their news from TV sources. In other words, the internet is a huge and growing source of news — and it’s a lot harder to regulate the internet than television.

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L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

s market value doubled to about $4.7 billion over the last couple of weeks with investors reacting positively to the Sawtelle-based EV charging station network’s quarterly results along with news of expanded collaboration with General Motors Co. and Uber Technologies Inc.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Our goal in this article is to paint a realistic picture of how to think about performance early in the life of an application. In our Framework Benchmarks project, as of this writing, we have about 300 permutations covering 145 frameworks, and a huge universe of possible permutations we don’t presently cover.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a media property, runs it for about seven years, and then decides to unload that same property for a fraction of the price it paid to a Southern California technology--not media--company. How about IGN ? Local technology firms here actually look to be the home to quite a few of News Corp.'s

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

.” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. I have thought a lot about anonymity over the years and actually have enjoyed debating the topic with those passionate about anonymity’s benefits because of course that’s how I learn.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

I agreed to do the interview because the story was about what other companies can learn rather than about airbnb in particular. In a nutshell – I think airbnb eventually got to the right place and I was impressed with the letter their founder Brian Chesky wrote and their new commitment to safety and damages.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 14, 2023

How about employees all the way down the line and through the corporation? But how about awarding stock options to all employees? Yes, sometimes the news is not good. Would bad news drive your best employees out the door? How do we align them to the goals and strategies of the enterprise?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” We did know about Snapchat as early as anybody. So Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed wrote the first $500,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Tech news keeps proclaiming “phone calls are dead,” which is useful except that the data suggests the exact opposite. It’s why I wrote this article about Invoca (formerly RingRevenue) that the most obvious mobile Internet ad unit is, in fact, a phone call. Calls are changing but not dying. Google knows it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. They also gave us Hacker News , which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Last week, we talked about about the “de-stonkifying” of the market. Apple’s pivot to services has been a mixed bag, and the company is looking to expand the appeal of its Apple News service to a wider swath of free and paid subscribers. Image Credits: Busakorn Pongparnit (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Called Dell Technologies Capital, the investment arm plans to provide funding to about 20 startups this year, Scott Darling, president of group, told Bloomberg , which first reported the news this morning.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2012

What is the rule about those pesky non-compete agreements signed upon discharge or sale of the previous company? In that case, you must worry only about information and trade secrets taken from the previous company which are both certainly subject to protection by almost all laws and courts.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

is changing the way companies, real estate leaders and employees think about and measure these major assets. I’m excited to share a short conversation with Andrew about today’s news and where the company is going, which you can see here : [link] We cover: Density’s growth and transition through the past two years of a pandemic where?

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2018

The big headlines from the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Chicago were all about the battle over the latest lung cancer data , and for good reason. Here’s a sample of other cancer news blowing in the Windy City and beyond this week. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it’s becoming clearer that the fight against the spread of fake news won’t be won by humans alone. research.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. Crunchbase News recently profiled a selection of U.S. And there’s still about eight weeks left to go before it’s New Year’s Eve. Contributor. More posts by this contributor. The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based GameFly.com , an online video game rental service, said Wednesday that it has acquired Shacknews.com , a news site focused on video game information. Shacknews.com provides information about PC games, trailers and betas for consoles, and more. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Xconomy

APRIL 26, 2019

The road to every new drug approval is littered with the remains of earlier failures. Biopharmaceutical companies don’t like to talk about the failures. But it’s earnings season now, so some of them don’t have much choice.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Welcome back to Human Capital, where we explore some of the latest news in labor, diversity and inclusion in tech. This probably isn’t news to developers, but it was news to me when I found out many tech companies still use slave-master language. TGIF, am I right? Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

News last week that event-stream, the popular open-source code library managed by NPM , had been compromised by a hacker (or hackers) looking to steal Bitcoin led some to question the underlying security of the open-source components that they are using in their software.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. But first you need to know about Reg D filings. If you believe you have a market-leading position in your product space I would worry a bit less about it.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing engineer and PageWoo ’s CEO and co-Founder Jason Crilly about his side project, the new hacker news site for the Southern California tech community called Develop.la. First off, there are a few things about Jason you should know. s own hacker news, Develop.la

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ).

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

How about employees all the way down the line and through the corporation? But how about awarding stock options for all employees? Yes, sometimes the news is not good. Would bad news drive your best employees out the door? How do we align them to the goals and strategies of the enterprise?

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Tech.Co

JUNE 24, 2022

The news that tech companies are reneging on job offers is worrying – it’s such a damaging thing to be made public in the context of future recruitment, and the ‘whiplash’ – going from rapid hiring to rescinding offers in a short time, is extremely uncommon. Get all the latest tech news straight to your inbox.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 24, 2020

I have to start by saying that the most important thing about being cited in news sources is that you have to be newsworthy. Now that might go without saying, but what we as marketers might consider newsworthy about our brands isn’t necessarily newsworthy to a writer or to the greater public. Choosing the right content idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

Some Seriously Great News. Andrew and Petri had left game developer Rovio (of Angry Birds fame) and were creating a new games company called Seriously that would combine compelling intellectual property (characters), great narratives, and fun game play in a mobile-first application. Some Seriously Great News. Congrats, Kevin.

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Xconomy

MARCH 29, 2019

We’ll kick off this week’s roundup with the aducanumab reaction, which includes plenty of thoughts about the future of the so-called “amyloid hypothesis” and what’s next for another Biogen Alzheimer’s drug that has had mixed results.

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