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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

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Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). 9 Ways socalTECH Can Help You With Your New Year's Resolutions. In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking).

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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

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According to an analysis of socalTECH's proprietary database of venture capital deals, venture investors invested slightly more than the $966M in Q3 of 2009, but less than the $1.6 in investments, followed by Retail Products, at $140M, and Software, at $77.8M. Southern California venture totals for Q3 totaled around $1.0

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Four SoCal Startups That Thrived Despite--or Because Of--Economic Downturns

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GoToMyPC.com : As John Greathouse, a local investor and advisor--who helped start GoToMyPC describes, during the high-tech recession of 2001 - 2003, GoToMyPC sold a substantial number of licenses of its software, specifically due to customers looking for ways to save money during the recession.

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SoCal Inventors Recognized By Popular Mechanics

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The Ultra-Efficient Thin-Film Solar Cells team at Caltech is developing solar cells which solve the problem of current photovoltaic panels, where there is a lot of loss of material due to trimming of silicon wafers. The last university team recognized by Popular Mechanics comes out of UCLA. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2018: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? The macro climate will be volatile due to uncertainly from an unstable president, a slowing overall economy and the China America trade negotiationsas well as the inevitable slowing of a 10 year run.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. Deploying software in the cloud? The company recently reported record. RightScale.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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We've made some investments here and there, and are now building a team, and making a lot of investments in SoCal tech companies. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. We hired the ex-CTO of Sears, and other senior executives out of Disney in software. What's the theme of your investments?