Berkonomics
JANUARY 4, 2018
Close. Many of us belong to industry associations and find ourselves at conferences and trade shows with time to spend with competitors. Some of these are old friends; some even former associates. It is natural to want to associate with these people for many reasons, certainly socially. Most CEOs want to obtain information about their competitors in the most subtle and non-obvious ways.
socalTECH
JANUARY 3, 2018
Monrovia, California-based AeroVironment said on Wednesday that it is in a joint venture to develop a solar powered, high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system, potentially worth up to $65,011,081. The joint venture is with HAPSMobile , which is 95 percent owned by Japanese technology giant SoftBank Corp. According to AeroVironment, the unmanned aircraft would be aimed at developing a high-altitude long-endurance, or HALE, UAS for commercial operations.
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L.A. Business Journal
JANUARY 2, 2018
Jia Yueting, founder and financier of troubled electric car manufacturer Faraday Future, defied orders from a Beijing securities regulator to return to China to deal with debt problems related to his internet company, LeEco.
InfoChachkie
JANUARY 3, 2018
A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. During a Invoca Board meeting, an interesting idea was raised by Brett Queener, a former Salesforce senior executive. He noted that early in Salesforce’s tenure, the company changed its fiscal year to end on January 31 st , rather than the traditional calendar year end. This approach has been commonly used by retailers since the start of the last century.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 2, 2018
Heidi A. Voorhees, CAE. EDUCATION Bachelor of arts, majoring in commercial recreation/business, Central Michigan University; master of business administration, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. MY FIRST INDUSTRY JOB Straight out of college — convention assistant, SmithBucklin. MY PREVIOUS THREE JOBS Vice president of strategic initiatives, Institute of Food Technologists; senior vice president of housing, Experient; and two short stints at tech startups (BOB.tv and Eved).
socalTECH
DECEMBER 30, 2017
Not long ago, malware and other viruses were nothing more than occasional mild annoyances, but cyber crime has become big business in the past few years. With organisations across the world now using the Internet every day to do business, criminals have taken advantage. With more people to target, and more tools at their disposal, hackers have reshaped the cyber security landscape in the past decade.
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Xconomy
JANUARY 3, 2018
The first gene therapy approved in the United States will cost $850,000, its developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ) announced today. Spark hopes to reduce the sticker shock by offering refunds and other creative pricing ideas, but those carve-outs, at best, are limited, and some are unlikely to come to fruition, according to healthcare economists.
Tech.Co
JANUARY 3, 2018
One of the must-see startup events at CES 2018, the largest consumer electronics show in the world, is Eureka Park. It is here over 800 of the world’s most promising new companies will showcase their breakthrough technology. At CES 2017, over 3,500 financial professionals and 7,000 members of the media, key investors and suppliers descended on Eureka Park to find their next unicorn, and this year the attendance will be even bigger.
socalTECH
JANUARY 3, 2018
Los Angeles-based TeleSign , which provides both two-factor authentication and fraud risk scoring tools, said on Tuesday that it has enhanced its Telesign Score fraud intelligence product. According to TeleSign, it added the integration of the BICS' Telecom Fraud Data Consortium platform into its data, which will help it better predict, detect, and block fraud.
L.A. Business Journal
JANUARY 2, 2018
Spotify hit with $1.6 billion lawsuit from L.A. music publisher; Faraday Future founder defies Beijing order to return home; and SpaceX launching top-secret Zuma satellite for U.S. government this week.
Xconomy
JANUARY 3, 2018
Genalyte, a biomedical diagnostics company that has maintained a low profile in San Diego while raising almost $92 million, is getting ready to debut technology that targets a market long dominated by centralized lab services providers. Kevin Lo, an Internet veteran who recently joined Genalyte as president, said in a telephone interview the company is creating a next-generation lab services business that doesn’t require blood samples to be sent to centralized labs for testing.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 3, 2018
The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. Both are required to stay competitive.
socalTECH
JANUARY 2, 2018
“Brad” was a solid manager with stagnated results. He was great at constructive feedback and holding his team accountable, but recognition did not come naturally to him. “Why should I say thank you to someone for just doing their job?” He was frustrated […].
L.A. Business Journal
DECEMBER 31, 2017
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Xconomy
JANUARY 3, 2018
A series of events this year—from the Equifax data breach to the foreign use of social media to influence the U.S. presidential election—has prompted some to question the utopian promise of innovation, especially when it comes to Web companies and cybersecurity. To help put things in perspective at year’s end, Xconomy reached out to Nisha Desai, a clean energy entrepreneur in Houston.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 1, 2018
Welcome to another challenging new year ahead! You’ve probably already made your resolutions for 2018, but if not, I suggest a renewed commitment to finding happiness and satisfaction in your chosen business lifestyle. After all, most of us spend more hours in this role than any other, and life is too short to spend most of your life unhappy. As a mentor to entrepreneurs and business owners, and seeing their workload and challenges, it would be easy for me to conclude that starting a business is
socalTECH
JANUARY 2, 2018
EVM World is coming up in May of 2018. This is one of two conferences held during the year focused on Integrated Program Performance Management. Here are the presentations from last years November Conference. What are the Five Immutable Principles of Project Success? What is the definition of Done? The Integrated Master Plan tells us this in units of Effectiveness and Performance.
L.A. Business Journal
JANUARY 4, 2018
Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August; Chrome River raises $35 million more and eHarmony's “scientific” match ad banned in UK.
Xconomy
JANUARY 5, 2018
Manufacturers of snow blowers and salt spreaders are seeing a major uptick this week.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 30, 2017
Every culture and community puts pressure on its members to follow the norms. Even young people who start out wanting to be different are called “freaks,” and most are slowly bent back into the norm by the time they “grow up.” Maybe that’s why so many entrepreneurs struggle with building a disruptive new business, where breaks from the norm are the key to success.
socalTECH
JANUARY 5, 2018
Hawthorne-based SpaceX says it has shifted its launch date for its mysterious "Zuma" government payload to January 7th, as extreme weather slowed preparations for launch in Florida. The launch--originally targeted for 5pm on Friday--is being made for a mysterious, U.S. government customer. No details on what the "Zuma" payload is or where it will be placed into space have been released.
Tech.Co
JANUARY 4, 2018
It doesn’t matter if you start a company in a coworking space, a dorm room or on your couch, the struggle to build a tech business in this day and age is real. For many founders, getting noticed by investors, potential customers, incubators and other companies, is a necessity to take your product to the next level. This year at CES 2018 at Eureka Park over 800 startups from around the world will descend on Las Vegas and meet individuals to help boost their business.
Xconomy
JANUARY 3, 2018
Drug developers have long thought that targeting RNA with small molecule drugs was too difficult, but new insight into RNA biology is starting to change their minds. In the latest sign of this growing interest, a new startup, Expansion Therapeutics, today announced a $55.3 million Series A investment round. The financing will fund the development of chemical-based drugs for a group of genetic diseases that are caused by dysfunctional RNAs with a specific kind of mutation.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 5, 2018
In my experience with technical entrepreneurs, they work hard on creating an innovative and elegant solution, and assume that customers will flock to them (“if we build it, they will come”). The reality is that successful businesses these days require an equally elegant business model, with the right marketing, delivery channel, price, and target customers, to get real traction.
socalTECH
JANUARY 4, 2018
El Segundo-based PCM , which provides information technology products to the business, government, and education markets, said very late Wednesday evening that it has acquired Provista Technology Services Ltd. and its subsidiary, Provista UK Ltd. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. PCM said it made the acquisition through its UK-based subsidiary, PCM Technology Solutions UK, Ltd.
socalTECH
JANUARY 4, 2018
A video of a "talking tattoo", powered by Los Angeles area startup Skin Motion , has gone viral --at least the second big viral breakout of a demonstration of the company's technology. The video, posted by 19-year old Sakyrah Angelique, shows her phone playing a voicemail based on the waveform tattoed over her heart of her (now deceased) grandmother.
socalTECH
JANUARY 3, 2018
Irvine-based CalAmp , which develops telematics tracking devices--including the popular LoJack consumer brand--has been selected by Trimble for a line of vehicle and asset monitoring products, Trimble said today. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Trimble said CalAmp is supplying customized telematics tracking devices and systems management technology for Trimble's Field Service Management (FSM) products.
socalTECH
JANUARY 5, 2018
Starry , a Boston-based Internet Services Provider which uses it own, proprietary millimeter-wave, 5G band service to provide in-building gigabit broadband to customers, has launched into Los Angeles, as part of an expansion by the company to LA and Washington, DC. Starry said the beta launch is its first beyond Boston. Starry's service revolves around the "Starry Station", a Wi-Fi hub which connects to rooftop, millimeter-wave fixed wireless relay points.
socalTECH
JANUARY 5, 2018
San Diego-based Gossamer Bio , a new biopharma startup founded by former executives of Receptos, has raised $100M in a Series A funding, the company said late Thursday evening. Gossamer said the funding included seed funding from Omega Funds, and a Series A co-led by ARCH Venture Partners and Omega Funds. Gossamer Bio was co-founded by Faheem Hasnain and Sheila Gujrathi, M.D., former executives at Receptos.
socalTECH
JANUARY 5, 2018
Santa Barbara-based InTouch Health , which provides telehealth services, said on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire TruClinic , a web-based telemedicine provider based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Financial details of the transaction were not announced. InTouchHealth said that TrueClinic specializes in direct-to-consumer virtual care solutions. InTouch Health said it will merge TruClinic into the company, where it will be led by Steve Cashman, recently appointed EVP of Marketing and Consumer Sol
socalTECH
JANUARY 4, 2018
Los Angeles-based mobile games startup GameMine said on Wednesday that it has expanded a partnership with Nickelodeon, the subsidiary of Viacom, and will distribute a line of Nickelodeon mobile games to Swisscom, Moviestar, Orange, A1, and Vodafone in the countries of Switzerland, Spain, Austria, France, Portugal, Belgium, and Poland. GameMine said the new games features such characters as SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Nick Sports.
socalTECH
JANUARY 4, 2018
San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals developer Neuropore Therapies , which is developing biopharmaceuticals to treat Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders, has received a second grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF). According to Neuropore, the grant will go to support its Toll-Like Receptor 2 (TLR2) antagonist program focused on modulating neuroinflammation and autophagy in Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
socalTECH
JANUARY 4, 2018
La Jolla-based molecular dermatology treatment developer DermTech announced this morning that its Canadian subsidiary, DermTech Canada, has received approval from Health Canada to market its Pigmented Lesions Assay (PLA) and non-invasive biopsy kit for the detection of melanoma in Canada. DermTech said it will process samples at DermTech's laboratory in La Jolla.
socalTECH
JANUARY 3, 2018
Irvine-based property information provider CoreLogic has named Arnold A. Pinkston as its new Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, the company said this morning. Pinkston previously served as General Counsel at Allergan and Beckman Coulter, and also served at Eli Lilly and Company. Pinkston serves on the board of Bio-Rad Laboratories. CoreLogic maintains a database of property, mortgages, consumer credit, and other information.
socalTECH
JANUARY 3, 2018
San Diego-based Maravai LifeSciences announced this morning that it is acquiring Glen Research Corporation , a Sterling, Virginia-based provider of reagents used in the synthesis of DNA and RNA. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Maravai LifeSciences is a provider of specialty reagents to the research, biotherapeutics, and OEM market, and is owned by private equity firm GTCR.
socalTECH
JANUARY 3, 2018
San Diego-based Expansion Therapeutics , a new biotech startup focused on the discovery and development of ribonucleic acid (RNA) targeted small molecule medicines, said today that it has raised $55.3M in a Series A funding round. The funding was co-led by 5AM Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Novartis Venture Fund, and Sanofi Ventures, and also included RA Capital Management and Alexandria Venture Investments.
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