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“Where there’s mystery, there’s margin.”   

Berkonomics

The challenge: Replacing lost margin In the early eighties, IBM helped the PC become a tool of the office, and the product crossed over from use by early adopters to the mass market. Many companies found internal employees able to install these computers and load software easily, without employing outside professional services.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

ProductionPro is a tool for storytellers and creators focused on improving creative collaboration in Film, TV, and Theatre production. makes it easy to create, discover, play, and share fun learning games in minutes—for any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages. ProductionPro.

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Enterprise Software Is Back: SoCal Sees Surge In Software Deals

socalTECH

If you look at the last few weeks of deals here, you might be surprised: it''s almost been entirely enterprise software. Yesterday, TigerText , a developer of enterprise, secure texting tools, raised a big $21M funding and last week, the big funding round was for Kareo , which raised $29.5M for its cloud-based medical offices software.

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Parabol Picks Up $4M For Software Tools

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Parabol , a startup developing software management tools, used to manage the efforts of development teams, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The company's software helps development teams manage their processes, and is focused on Agile development processes.

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Maestro nets $15 million for its interactive commerce, community and engagement tools for livestreams

TechCrunch LA

Making money on livestreams has never been easier thanks to a suite of tools from the Los Angeles-based startup Maestro , which just nabbed $15 million in financing to grow its business. “The third piece is a developer ecosystem,” Evans said. “We’re really copying Shopify, Squarespace for video or Shopify for video.

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LA-based Boulevard raises $27 million for its spa management software

TechCrunch LA

They spoke with salon owners in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and other trendy neighborhoods trying to get a sense of where software and services were falling short. Customers using the company’s software include: Chris McMillan the Salon, Heyday, MèCHE Salon, Paintbox, Sassoon Salon, SEV Laser, Spoke & Weal and TONI&GUY.

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Esri Debuts New Tool For Real-Time IoT Data Analysis

socalTECH

Redlands-based GIS software giant Esri said on Wednesday that it has released a new tool, ArcGIS Velocity, which is aimed at ingesting and analyzing real-time data from the Internet-of-Things. Pricing on the new tool was not announced.

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