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We Create Demand. --Stradling --La Visual - A Branding, Product Strategy & Rapid Prototyping Accelerator --UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) --Early Stage Commercial Insurance - Pacific Unified Insurance Agency RECENT JOB POSTINGS --Program a Tweeting bike! Twilio programmer needed, Los Angeles, PUSH PR --Sr. Director of Finance & HR, Culver City, Sole Society --Software Engineer, Los Angeles, Talus Labs --Front-End Web (.NET) Developer in LA, Los Angeles, AssetAvenue, Inc. --Entry/Mid Level UI Designer - Immediate Need - LA, Los Angeles, AssetAvenue, Inc. --Professional Services Manager, Aliso Viejo, CONEXiS RECENT FUNDING EVENTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Insights: Five Secrets to Landing your Dream Job in the Mobile Industry ---- For this morning's contributed article, we're featuring Dale Carr, the CEO of LeadBolt, who offers some tips to score a career in today's high tech industry. LeadBolt is based in Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia. You can read more contributions like this from the local technology community at our Insights and Opinions section. ________________________________ With a growing reliance on mobile devices in our daily lives, more job opportunities open up as the industry grows. Job seekers may be lured by careers in the mobile field and as such may be equally as excited as they are intimidated by the ever-changing technology space. For candidates who are newly entering the tech field or switching paths mid-career, here are some tips for acquiring the skills and readiness that set you apart from other job-seekers and make you attractive to the hiring organization. Five strategic moves to land your dream job in mobile: 1. Understand the key debates and hot topics happening within the industry today. Whether it's the future of the wearables market, the rise in popularity of devices such as "phablets", the efficacy of native ads, mobile advertising, the advancements in location-based (LBS) technology or the return of Flappy Bird, the hot topics of mobile are always in motion. Prepare by knowing the three big debates or key topics. Reading mobile trade publications and industry blogs are a great way to stay informed. (More...) http://www.socaltech.com/articles/five-secrets-to-landing-your-dream-job/a-00248.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyocera Consolidates Operations Into San Diego ---- Kyocera said Thursday that it is consolidating two of its North American business units into a single location in San Diego. According to Kyocera, it has consolidated the North American sales and technical operations of Kyocera SLC Technologies Corporation and Kyocera Circuit Solutions USA into the Organic Products Sales Group of its San Diego-based Kyocera America unit. Kyocera SLC Technologies (KST) is a provider of organic flip-chip ball-grid-array substrates used in high-end application-specific integrated circuit applications. Kyocera Circuit Solutions is the former NEC Toppan Circuit Solutions, a provider of multlayer PCBs. The impact on Kyocera's local employment and employee base in San Diego was not announced. SecureAuth Names Marketing VP ---- Irvine-based SecureAuth, which provides two-factor authentication software, hsa named Darin Pendergraft as its new Vice President of Marketing, the company said this week. Pendergraft was most recently at Oracle, and had also served at Quest Software (which is now part of Dell). According to the company, he was most recently driving marketing strategy for Oracle's Identity management products. Gores Group Invests In Tweddle ---- Los Angeles-based private equity investor Gores Group said Thursday that it has invested in Tweddle, a major provider of publishing and technology for the automotive OEM and supplier market. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. Tweddle provides owner's anse service manuals to OEMs using its technology. Tweddle is based in Clinton Township, Michigan. The company handles both collecting automotive information from designers and OEMs, but also managing product change processes, delivering that data both in paper and electronic form, as well as populating e-commerce websites. Former Maker Execs Sue To Stop Disney Acquisition ---- Former Maker Studios CEO and co-founder Danny Zappin--along with three other former executives of the company--have filed a lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order seeking to stop the acquisition of Maker Studios by Disney. Disney said it would pay as much as $950M, including earnout, for Maker Studios on March 24th. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday. The legal documents filed by Zappin name not only Maker Studios, but venture capitalists Mark Suster and Dana Settle, as well as GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures). Zappin already had an existing lawsuit against Maker, which he filed after being removed as CEO of the company. http://www.socaltech.com/former_maker_execs_sue/s-0054503.html Media Temple Parent GoDaddy Approaches IPO ---- The parent company of Culver City-based hosting service Media Temple--GoDaddy--is getting closer to an IPO, based on reports Wednesday that the company has hired on several investment bankers for its public offering. According to Bloomberg, GoDaddy has selected Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan as bankers for its IPO, which is expected sometime later this year. It's unclear how the move would affect MediaTemple, which still has extensive operations in Los Angeles--and apparently has been in hiring mode for all sorts of positions here. GoDaddy acquired Media Temple in October of last year. TouchCommerce Signs Up Total Gym ---- Agoura Hills-based TouchCommerce, which provides Internet and mobile chat technology and services which helps to engage customers browsing e-commerce sites, reported today that it has signed up Total Gym Fitness as a customer for its new mobile products. TouchCommerce said the win comes as it releases an updated version of its mobile chat product. Financial details of the win with Total Gym were not announced. TouchCommerce is led by Bernard Louvat. The company said that Total Gym is an existing customer for the company's other products. Sonos Connects With Google Play ---- Sonos, the maker of the whole home audio streaming systems, has connected up its systems with Google Play Music, the music service run by Google, the companies announced Thursday morning. According to Sonos, it now lets users directly stream to Sonos from within the Google Play Music app on their Android device, or directly from the Sonos app. Google Play is Google's online music service, which lets users store up to 20,000 songs in the cloud and stream those songs to their PC, Android tablet or smartphone, and other devices. Sonos is based in Santa Barbara. Kareo Names New CFO ---- Irvine-based Kareo, which develops cloud-based, medical office software aimed at small medical practices, said Thursday that it has named Tom Patterson as the company's new Chief Financial Officer. Patterson was most recently CFO of Teletrac, and also had been at Quest Software and Citrix Systems. 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This April 11-13, hackers and builders from across the nation will come together at UCLA, fill the iconic Pauley Pavilion up to capacity, and experience. Experience what, exactly? You'll experience the biggest hackathon that you'll have ever been a part of. You'll experience an environment with enough mentorship and resources to learn anything you can dream of, no matter what your skill level is. You'll meet and interact with some of the biggest names in tech, as well as some tech-enthused celebrities. And most of all, you'll experience first-hand just how incredible our country's collegiate hackathon community really is. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24035 April 12, Los Angeles -- LA Hacks is setting a new bar for just how epic a hackathon can be. This April 11-13, hackers and builders from across the nation will come together at UCLA, fill the iconic Pauley Pavilion up to capacity, and experience. Experience what, exactly? You'll experience the biggest hackathon that you'll have ever been a part of. You'll experience an environment with enough mentorship and resources to learn anything you can dream of, no matter what your skill level is. You'll meet and interact with some of the biggest names in tech, as well as some tech-enthused celebrities. And most of all, you'll experience first-hand just how incredible our country's collegiate hackathon community really is. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24036 April 13, Los Angeles -- LA Hacks is setting a new bar for just how epic a hackathon can be. This April 11-13, hackers and builders from across the nation will come together at UCLA, fill the iconic Pauley Pavilion up to capacity, and experience. Experience what, exactly? You'll experience the biggest hackathon that you'll have ever been a part of. You'll experience an environment with enough mentorship and resources to learn anything you can dream of, no matter what your skill level is. You'll meet and interact with some of the biggest names in tech, as well as some tech-enthused celebrities. And most of all, you'll experience first-hand just how incredible our country's collegiate hackathon community really is. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24037 April 16, Los Angeles -- Disney Accelerator - Final Application Deadline. Disney Accelerator is a highly selective, immersive mentorship and seed-stage investment program for technology-enabled startups in the media and entertainment space. Ten startup companies will be selected to gather in the Los Angeles area for three months to incubate their ideas and build new consumer media and entertainment products. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23992 April 16, Irvine -- How to Connect with Millennials To Grow Your Business. Millennials grew up with the "do not call list" and "TiVo thru the ads" on TV. They probably have never even seen an encyclopedia or Avon door to door salesperson. They simply aren't traditional buyers. But they are real advocates for some of the most successful brands today. So how does a brand connect with the Millennial generation? To help end the over criticism and under appreciation we delve into the way five Millennial run enterprises are succeeding by serving their own generation and those to come. Join us to learn why your business needs to take their buying power seriously if you don't want to be like Willy Lohman in Death of a Salesman.. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24045 April 16, Los Angeles -- Ed Catmull, Co-founder, Pixar Animation Studios. Live Talks Business Forums. CREATIVITY, INC.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. ED CATMULL is co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. He has been honored with five Academy Awards, including the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of computer graphics. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23946 April 17, Lakewood -- CROWDFUNDING... A NEW WAY TO FUND YOUR FOOD BUSINESS! In April 2012 President Barack Obama signed into law the new JOBS ACT, which in part ushered in a new form of online capital funding for small and medium sized businesses called Crowdfunding. With CF expecting to top $5bil in 2014, the impact is changing the traditional landscape for private funding like VC and Angel investments. And given the confusion about how it works and who is using it, we invited Rick Andrade a Food Finance expert to help us sort through the issues. It's not just for start-ups. So join us, and learn why your company should be Crowdfunding. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24048 April 17, Santa Monica -- Emerging Tech Salon: Strategic Networking for Tech Startups. Strategic networking is incredibly important in the age of digital information. There are more events than any company can afford to attend and manage. Networking applications, social media and analytics allow businesses to target their outreach, connect immediately. On April 17 at 6:30, join us and hear from a distinguished panel of expert networkers who are leveraging the best tools the information age has to offer. Our panel will share key insights on how to distinguish the specific benefits of virtual communication and face to face interaction and leverage them together for maximum social impact. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24038 April 18, Los Angeles -- LA Startup Weekend. Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur? The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success? Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23976 April 22, San Diego -- CONNECT's Nearsourcing Workshop: Managing Sourcing Successfully. Establishing and maintaining a rewarding collaboration with supply chain contracting firms can be challenging but being prepared and following some initial key steps will set the stage for a win-win business partnership. Hear for yourself as this panel of industry leaders from Clarity Design, Fallbrook Engineering, MicroPower Technologies and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton tackle the ins and outs of this crucial alliance, provide insights on what to consider, and share lessons learned along the way.. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24041 April 22, Santa Monica -- Meet & Greet GA Developer Talent*Santa Monica. Looking for smart, hungry developers to join your team? Come meet 30+ General Assembly graduates at our campus in Santa Monica. They're well versed in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails & hail from hybrid backgrounds (finance, entertainment, government, arts & more). You can check out their portfolio of web applications and discuss possible full time & apprentice employment opportunities. General Assembly does not collect a commission for hiring our graduates and never will. All attendees will receive a digitalized booklet with individual student bios, project links and portfolios. Food and refreshments will be provided! . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24046 April 22, Santa Monica -- Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles presents the 3rd Annual SBC Industry Achievement Awards celebrates and salutes Southern California companies working daily to create sustainably focused products and services that reduce ecological impact. (via Green LAVA). See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24020 April 23, Thousand Oaks -- Clean Technology Council Conference. CTC celebrates our 4th year with "New Water Reuse Strategies - Bringing California reservoirs back from record low levels." Keynote Speaker: Subir Bhattacharjee PhD, CTO, Water Planet Engineering - www.wpeh2o.com/ - Water scarcity and droughts are shaping new water strategies. California's complex industry and agriculture environment has fostered discussions on how to tap new sources of water, recycling, new technology, reuse, cost of water management and fair use. Dr. Bhattacharje holds an NRC Industrial Chair in Water Quality Management for Oil Sands at the University of Alberta, Canada and has completed water projects for Canadian Federal Government agencies, NSERC Canada, Canada Foundation for Innovation, National Research Council and Alberta Government agencies. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24005 April 23, Los Angeles -- Meet & Greet GA Developer Talent*Downtown. Looking for smart, hungry developers to join your team? Come meet 30+ General Assembly graduates at our campus in Santa Monica. They're well versed in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails & hail from hybrid backgrounds (finance, entertainment, government, arts & more). You can check out their portfolio of web applications and discuss possible full time & apprentice employment opportunities. General Assembly does not collect a commission for hiring our graduates and never will. All attendees will receive a digitalized booklet with individual student bios, project links and portfolios. Food and refreshments will be provided! . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24047 April 23, Hollywood -- Fireside Chat with Grindr. Join Tech in Motion LA for an exclusive, in-depth talk with the popular dating app Grindr! Lukas Sliwka, VP of Engineering, will be on hand to give guests a behind-the-scenes look, and to discuss the progression of the established start-up. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24042 April 29, San Diego -- CONNECT's FrameWorks Workshop: Basics of Obtaining Commercially Effective IP. CONNECT's FrameWorks Workshop presents: Basics of Obtaining Commercially Effective IP on April 29 presented by Sughrue Mion, PLLC. Intellectual property rights are often key to the foundation, growth and ultimate survival of a company. Learn the interplay of trade secrets and patents, including their relative advantages and disadvantages, the types of inventions protectable by patents, the criteria that must be met in order to obtain patent protection and the recent patent rule changes and how they will affect patent rights and strategy.. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24043 April 29, Newport Beach -- The Solar Energy Power Association (SEPA) presents the Utility Solar Conference, an exclusive forum for utilities to share their experiences, exchange ideas, and talk through various strategies and business models in an intimate environment free of outside influences. The conference brings together utilities interested in improving, expanding or developing a viable long-term solar strategy. Due to regulatory concerns, the event is limited to employees of regulated investor-owned, municipal and cooperative utilities and federal power authorities. (via Green LAVA). See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24021 April 30, Newport Beach -- The Solar Energy Power Association (SEPA) presents the Utility Solar Conference, an exclusive forum for utilities to share their experiences, exchange ideas, and talk through various strategies and business models in an intimate environment free of outside influences. The conference brings together utilities interested in improving, expanding or developing a viable long-term solar strategy. Due to regulatory concerns, the event is limited to employees of regulated investor-owned, municipal and cooperative utilities and federal power authorities. (via Green LAVA). See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24022 May 1, Los Angeles -- Growth Capital Conference. Network with capital sources, advisors, deal makers and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital & counsel. DEAL DISPLAY showcases attractive firms needing growth capital. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23937 May 1, Hollywood -- LA Games Conference. Held in the iconic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, LA Games Conference (LAGC) is a favorite among game, media and investment leaders for the high energy, focused environment for networking, meetings and deal-making. Featuring two tracks with fireside chats, roundtables, panels and presentations on digital game investment, creation, distribution, marketing and monetization, the event brings together many of the elite in the industry for top sessions and power networking. On May 1, join the most influential decision-makers in the digital media industry at Digital Media Wire's Annual LA Games Conference to network, do deals, and share ideas about the future of games and connected entertainment. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24026 May 2, Los Angeles -- Digital Growth Summit. On May 2nd, 2014 professionals in Los Angeles will join us for our second Digital Growth Summit, designed to give them tools to build a powerful online presence for their business. Where: Microsoft Los Angeles Headquarters, 13031 W. Jefferson Boulevard, LA 90094 What: 7-10 topics that help brands and businesses build a better online presence to attract more customers. Who: This event is limited to 120 professionals from brands, businesses, startups and agencies that want to learn key tips and trends from panelists. Why: In one full day each attendee will learn dozens of tactical formulas they can instantly implement at their company. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24044 May 2, Los Angeles -- World Trade Week Kickoff Breakfast 2014. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Celebrate the kickoff of World Trade Week and join nearly 500 executives and members of the diplomatic corps at the 87th Annual World Trade Week Kickoff Breakfast at the JW Marriott at L.A. Live on Friday, May 2nd! Program will include a presentation of the prestigious Stanley T. Olafson Award First observed in 1927 to promote the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the World Trade Week observance has grown to promote the positive aspects of international trade that are vital to a strong local and national economy. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24034 May 7, Irvine -- AWT Forum on Maintaining Your Technical Skills - Staying Current in an Environment of Rapid Tech Change and Innovation. Our moderator for this exciting forum is Joel Manfredo, Managing Director, Chief Information Officer (CIO) Practice for Acies Consulting Corp. and former Orange County Chief Technology Officer. Panelists include Jeff Fung, Vice President Information Technology, Corinthian Colleges; Kathy Melgar, Director, ISP and Mutual Fund Services, Pacific Life; Sharon Moseley, Chief Strategy & Information Officer, Kinecta Federal Credit Union; and Trevor Schulze, Corporate Vice President of Enterprise Applications, Broadcom. 1000f the profits from this event benefit the AWT Charitable Foundation, which awards annual scholarships to women studying at Southern California colleges in pursuit of a career in technology. . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24049 May 8, Pasadena -- SpaceFest VI. Spacefest is THE event for the space enthusiast of any stripe-Pure astronomy; manned exploration; robotic exploration; commercial space, space history. Professional or amateurNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24051 May 9, Pasadena -- SpaceFest VI. Spacefest is THE event for the space enthusiast of any stripe-Pure astronomy; manned exploration; robotic exploration; commercial space, space history. Professional or amateurNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24052 May 10, Pasadena -- SpaceFest VI. Spacefest is THE event for the space enthusiast of any stripe-Pure astronomy; manned exploration; robotic exploration; commercial space, space history. Professional or amateurNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24053 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: TVC Capital LLC (www.tvccapital.com) Investments in and Acquisitions of Growing Software Companies Silicon Valley Bank (http://www.svb.com). 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