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(http://www.fetchrecruiting.com) Technical Recruiting for LA based Startups and High-Growth Companies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --Interview with John Payne, Zumbox --BUZZMEDIA Trims Spin Magazine --StockTwits Integrates With Chartly --JustEnough Software Lands Retailer Five Below --PayDragon Reveals $1.35M Seed Funding For Mobile Payments --Unique Way To Name Your Company: Run A Poll --Wonderville Takes On Educational Content For Kids MARKETPLACE --LAVA's Annual Venture Capital Panel - August 14th, Santa Monica --TriNet: Principles for Building an Effective Human Capital Plan --Safire Partners Executive Search --Ventura Ventures Technology Center (V2TC) - Business Incubator --PwC Emerging Company Zone RECENT JOB POSTINGS --JDE Business Analyst, Los Angeles, TenTek, Inc. --Project Manager, Los Angeles, TenTek, Inc. --BPC (MS) Architect, Glendale, TenTek --Failure Analysis Engineer, Chatsworth, DataDirect Networks --System Administrator, Chatsworth, DataDirect Networks RECENT FUNDING EVENTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interview with John Payne, Zumbox ---- John Payne is a experienced entrepreneur, who has run two, public Internet companies -- Stamps.com and Day Software -- in addition to helping to run a number of startups. He's now head of Los Angeles-based Zumbox (www.zumbox.com). We caught up with John to learn about what Zumbox is up to nowadays in the digital postal delivery area, after Series C round announced by the company earlier this month. John, thanks for the time today. Can you explain to us what your business looks like now, and what you offer to your customers? John Payne: We've pioneered what's become known as the digital mailbox space. In the (More...) http://bit.ly/Q4lDdt --------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUZZMEDIA Trims Spin Magazine ---- Los Angeles-based digital media publisher BUZZMEDIA is wasting no time reshaping SPIN Magazine, the venerable music and culture publication it acquired earlier this month, and is reportedly already cleaning house. Billboard magazine reports that BUZZMEDIA has already begun layoffs at the magazine, which is expected to halt print publication with its September/October issue. BUZZMEDIA has not said what it plans to do with SPIN, but the brand undoubtedly will be directed towards bolstering its already large lineup of online, music-focused websites. BUZZMEDIA runs Stereogum, Idolator, XLR8R, and many other popular music and entertainment properties. StockTwits Integrates With Chartly ---- San Diego-based StockTwits, the online, stock-focused micro messaging startup, said Friday that it has integrated its service with social charting service Chartly. Stocktwits said the deal allows users to search, view, and share charts and videos within its service. As part of the integration, Chartly's site now redirects to the StockTwits site. Chartly, originally a developer of publicly accessible stock charting tools, had been acquired by StockTwits in 2009. StockTwits is led by Howard Lindzon. JustEnough Software Lands Retailer Five Below ---- Newport Beach-based JustEnough Software, which develops software for managing inventory, reported a win with pre-teen retailer Five Below this morning. Financial details of the win were not announced by the company. JustEnough said Five Below will use its for merchandise financial planning. JustEnough is headed by Malclm Buxton. PayDragon Reveals $1.35M Seed Funding For Mobile Payments ---- Los Angeles-based PayDragon has raised $1.35M in its seed funding, the firm disclosed Friday. The firm--which had earlier disclosed the seed round, but without dollar amounts--said the funding included Rustic Canyon Ventures, SV Angel, and Y Combinator, as well as Yuri Milner and Mark Schwartz. PayDragon is led by Hamilton Chan, and is aimed at making it easier for users to pay for local items using their mobile phone. The company is a refinement of Paperlinks, the QR-code based marketing firm started by Chan. http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/index.php?action=showdeal&id=41876 Unique Way To Name Your Company: Run A Poll ---- Here's a unique way to figure out a name for your company: run a public survey vetting some of the possible names for your startup. One of the companies out of San Diego's EvoNexus incubator sent out an email Friday via EvoNexus, saying that it's looking for a new name to offer up a service to provide customer care over social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The company--Face It Corp., which apparently is running it business under a different brand name--asks such questions as what name would be associated with a "hot new California startup" along with trying to identify positive and negative associations with its list of possible names. Although private polls are not new in the world of naming products and startups, at least for the local area, it's probably the first to show up in a public forum. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T97NZFV Wonderville Takes On Educational Content For Kids ---- A new, Los Angeles startup, Wonderville has launched to take on curating educational content on the web, providing links and videos to different content on a wide range of educational content for K-8 education. The company said last week that it is looking to create "smart galleries" of digital content and videos around educational topics like history, science, popular culture, and more. The founders are Mark Eastwood, David Lenz, and Lawrence Leach, who all apparently are vets of the original eToys. Eastwood, who serves as CEO of the company, was most recently worked at Brighter.com and Business.com with Jake Weinbaum. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARKETPLACE Reach 10000+ readers for 5 days for $250 Post your marketplace ad at: http://www.socaltech.com/postad.html ------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT------------------------------- LAVA Special Event LAVA's Annual Venture Capital Panel Tuesday August 14, 2012 6:00pm - 9:30pm Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows, 101 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401 Meet the top VCs who are investing in Southern California. Find out what they are looking to invest in. Find out what does it take to secure Venture Capital for your company. Learn about the hottest trends and the mistakes NOT to make. Moderator: Jon Funk, Founder, Ocean Road Partners Confirmed Panelists Jim Andelman, Managing Partner, Rincon Venture Partners David Caseras, Principal, Vicente Capital Partners See http://www.lava.org ------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT------------------------------- TriNet: Principles for Building an Effective Human Capital Plan Almost every business leader will say that people are their most important asset, but few do anything about it. If you are going to take this principle seriously then human capital planning is crucial. The Human Capital Plan is an important tool that organizations use to drive focused actions that can ensure goal achievement and business success. It allows organizations to assess, plan for, and respond proactively to its human capital challenges and needs. It helps shape the organization by building a plan to develop the workforce and practices needed to meet an organization’s vision, mission, and goals. Read on to learn about 10 principles to follow in order to build an effective human capital plan for your organization. Download the white paper at: http://www.socaltech.com/trinet/wp.php?id=6 ------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT------------------------------- Safire Partners Executive Search Safire Partners has completed 150+ retained executive searches since 2006 working with emerging businesses in digital media, Internet, eCommerce, software and clean technology across Southern California. Please visit our website to see an updated list of our clients and searches completed at http://www.safirepartners.com/. We are always interested in meeting new candidates and potential clients, so feel free to email our Managing Partner, Todd Gitlin at [email protected]. We can also always be a friendly source for investor introductions and general market / compensation intelligence. ------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT------------------------------- Ventura Ventures Technology Center (V2TC) - Business Incubator The Ventura Ventures Technology Center (V2TC) is a high-tech business incubator located in downtown Ventura, CA. V2TC offers a creative environment where high-tech start-ups and entrepreneurs can network, brainstorm, and grow their business. Work-spaces are affordable, flexible and scalable in order to allow companies the ability to manage their growth effectively and efficiently. Learn more at http://www.v2tc.com ------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT------------------------------- PwC Emerging Company Zone Visit the Emerging Company Zone, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, for access to the latest MoneyTree venture capital report; thought leadership articles, information on IPOs and more. http://www.socaltech.com/pwc ------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RECENT JOB POSTINGS More jobs at http://www.socaltech.com/Jobs Members post jobs for free JDE Business Analyst, Los Angeles, TenTek, Inc. http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5390 Project Manager, Los Angeles, TenTek, Inc. http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5389 BPC (MS) Architect, Glendale, TenTek http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5388 Failure Analysis Engineer, Chatsworth, DataDirect Networks http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5387 System Administrator, Chatsworth, DataDirect Networks http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5386 SalesForce.com Administrator, Sunnyvale, DataDirect Networks http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5385 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RECENT FUNDING SUMMARY 07/26/12 Apptopia.com $1.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=44305 07/26/12 Just Fabulous $76.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=44308 07/26/12 Pop-up Pantry $1.7M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=44307 07/25/12 NantPharma $125.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=44240 07/25/12 CoDa Therapeutics $20.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=44241 07/19/12 MOVIECLIPS, INC. $0.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=44139 07/18/12 Retention Science $1.3M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=44060 07/16/12 Tealium Inc. $10.5M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=44042 07/12/12 POPTENT INC $5.5M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=43964 07/11/12 MiCardia $4.4M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=43098 07/11/12 ValCare $8.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=43669 07/11/12 SteelHouse $8.3M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=43670 07/11/12 StackSocial $0.8M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=43674 07/10/12 Zumbox $10.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=43641 07/09/12 BIOSURPLUS, INC. $2.4M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=43614 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events This Month http://www.socaltech.com/Calendar socaltech.com Calendar of Southern California High Tech Events Submit your events at least two weeks in advance to: http://www.socaltech.com/submitevent.html August 1, Santa Monica -- Santa Monica Media Leaders Networking Event. Mingle and chat about all things tech, marketing and advertisin. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/22633 August 1, San Diego -- MIT Enterprise Forum, Wine Social. The MIT Enterprise Forum San Diego signature wine social, held annually, is widely recognized as the premier networking event for San Diego's technology and biotechnology community. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/22597 August 1, Santa Monica -- Next MediaLeaders Networking Event. Hey there MediaLeaders. Summer is officially here and we’re hosting a Santa Monica networking event at the Sonoma Wine Garden to celebrate this great weather. This spacious venue has tons of outdoor seating and lots of areas to mingle and chat about all things tech, marketing and advertising. If you look close…you can see the Santa Monica beach from the balcony. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/22590 August 2, Santa Monica -- LA CEOs presents: Scrum for CEOs - How to Manage Teams in a 2.0 World. Does your development team need “just two more weeks” to deliver their work? Was that the same answer they gave two months ago? How does the Scrum process change team collaboration and accelerate development? Learn from one of our very own LA CEOs, Bill Sewell, about his team’s experience with Scrum, which began with training from with Master Scrum Trainer Scott Downey. This event is restricted to CEOs only of product companies with a minimum of $2million in funding or revenue.. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/22631 August 2, Calabasas -- 9th Annual Summer Social for the electronics industry at the World Famous Sagebrush Cantina. This event typically draws 150+ and is always a lot of fun reuniting old friends and making new ones~! All distributors, mfrs. reps, OEM's and anyone related to the electronics industry here in So. California. Email [email protected]. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/22620 August 7, Westlake Village -- Los Angeles Clean Technology Council Conference. Our keynote speaker is Tom McGrath, Founder of LABS Renewable Energy. Tom will present "A Disruptive Technology-Converting Waste Into Energy With Fuel Cells.. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/22629 August 9, Santa Monica -- Startups Uncensored #29 - Eventbrite Co-Founders Kevin and Julia Hartz. Eventbrite is an online service that people everywhere use to create, share, and join any event imaginable. Eventbrite enable's event creation, promotion and ticket sales. They help people discover events that match their passions. And they let everyone share the events they're creating or joining, bringing more people together around the world. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/22639 August 10, Santa Barbara -- Clean Business Investment Summit. The Clean Business Investment Summit aligns the power of capital to bring together cutting-edge entrepreneurs and investors looking for dynamic opportunities in green, sustainable business with powerful entrepreneur presentations and an outstanding lineup of speakers exploring critical facets in sustainability, business growth strategies, investment opportunities, and more. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/22640 August 14, Santa Monica -- LAVA's Annual Venture Capital Panel. Meet the top VCs who are investing in Southern California. Find out what they are looking to invest in. Find out what does it take to secure Venture Capital for your company. Learn about the hottest trends and the mistakes NOT to make. Moderator: Jon Funk, Founder, Ocean Road Partners. Confirmed Panelists: Jim Andelman, Managing Partner, Rincon Venture Partners; David Casares, Principal, Vicente Capital Partners; Dana Settle, Partner, Greycroft Partners. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/22627 August 18, Los Angeles -- TECHBREW Multi-Dimensional MEGA MIXER. The TECHBREW Multi-Dimensional MEGA MIXER will include a workshop, presentations by international speakers, Lielle Arad and Alan Tratner, and a celebratory and fun mini-concert entertainment by the unique pop innovators, B4Neptune. Alan and Lielle will be speaking about responsibility in a special presentation entitled, ‘The Sustainable Planet & the Total Vantage Point’. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/22637 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: Rustic Canyon Partners (www.rusticcanyon.com). Funding great entrepreneurs. Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com). Venture capital for innovators. Silicon Valley Bank (http://www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (http://www.stubbsalderton.com). Business. Technology. Law. Vision. Safire Partners (http://www.safirepartners.com). 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