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We Create Demand. --Safire Partners Executive Search RECENT JOB POSTINGS --Front End Developer, Pasadena, Dotstudioz --Front End, Los Angeles (westside), Fetch Recruiting --Full Stack Everything, Los Angeles (mostly Westside), Fetch Recruiting --CTO, Gaming, Los Angeles, Fetch Recruiting --Data Scientist, Brea, DreamHost --Senior Product Marketing Manager, Marina del Rey, TeleSign, Corporation RECENT FUNDING EVENTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Insights: Why UBER Matters, A LOT ---- For today's Insights and Opinions article, where we regularly share the thoughts and observations of Southern California's high tech movers and shakers, we have an article from Ivan Nikkhoo of Siemer & Associates: "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." - Milton Friedman I was recently at the Le Web conference in Paris where Travis Kalanick, the Cofounder and CEO of Uber was one of the speakers. It is ironic that the idea for Uber was conceived in Paris, France, where free markets and capitalism are under tremendous pressure. What makes Uber is an extraordinarily important company? In one word, freedom. Disintermediation is Internet’s biggest gift. Uber is one of the best examples of how disintermediation can transform industries in which unions, lobbyists, regulation, and bureaucracy have created obstacles to progress, openness, and competitiveness. Which is (Continued...) http://www.socaltech.com/articles/why-uber-matters-a-lot/a-00247.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qualcomm Ventures Kicks Off Startup Competition ---- San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures, the venture investment arm of Qualcomm, has kicked off its annual venture competition, the QPrize, dangling seven $100,000 regional prizes and a $150,000 grand prize. Qualcomm's competition looks to identify the most promising, early-stage technology companies relevant to its business from across the globe. This year, Qualcomm said it will award $100,000 each to the top companies in China, Europe, India, Israel, Korea, Latin America and North America, with one of those winners getting an additional $150,000 in a convertible note financing after a pitch competition in its "grand finals". Qualcomm said the deadline for the startup competition this year is April 18th. http://www.qprize.com Washio Gets $2.25M For Laundry Pickup, Delivery ---- Los Angeles looks to be the center of the mobile-phone enabled, personal services market, as Wash.io--a new startup--announced today that it has raised $2.25M in a seed funding round. Wash.io offers up a smartphone app-driven service which schedules laundry pickup and delivery ala Uber. The funding came from Sherpa Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Three Six Zero Group, Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and a long list of other angel investors. The company is not the first smartphone-meets-laundry startup in Los Angeles--that honor goes to Naki Laundry. Wash.io currently offers up its laundry service in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and contracts out to third party laundry facilities for the actual laundry service. http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/index.php?action=showdeal&id=54143 Porch.com Gets Investment, Strategic Partnership With Lowe's ---- Porch.com, the online site focused on home improvement information which has operations and one of its founders in San Diego, has inked a big strategic deal today with Lowe's, the companies said today. According to the two, Lowe's will run a retail promotion to introduce Porch to customers, starting with 139 stores in North and South Carolina, and Seattle. (Continued...) http://www.socaltech.com/porch_com_strategic_partnership_with_lowe_s/s-0053083.html Chrome River Taps Into $17M For Expense Management, Invoice Processing ---- Los Angeles-based Chrome River, which develops expense management and invoice processing software for the law, accounting, and consulting market, has raised $17M in a Series C funding, the company said this morning. The company--led by Alan Rich--said the funding was led by Bain Capital Ventures and also included First Analysis and Argentum. According to Chrome River, it will use the funding to expand into new domestic and international markets, for its mobile efforts, and more. Chrome River's software provides accounts payable, expense management, invoice tracking, and more. The company said it has a significant number of top law firms both internationally and in the United States using its software. http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/index.php?action=showdeal&id=54377 Zingle Ramps Texting Service For Hotels ---- In a world where consumers use texting more than they actually talk to someone on the phone, businesses have been notably slow to communicate via texting with their customers. To solve that, a San Diego startup, Zingle says it has been offering up a service to help connect businesses with their customers via texting -- starting with the hotel industry. (More...) http://www.socaltech.com/zingle_ramps_texting_service_for_hotels/s-0053095.html Cornerstone OnDemand Ties With Workday ---- Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand announced this morning that it has integrated its cloud-based talent management software with Workday, the cloud-based human resources and finance provider. The company said that the two cloud-based products are directly integrated, so that information in Cornerstone OnDemand's software is synchronized with worker history and talent profile in Workday. The companies said they have a number of organizations using the integration. MRV Wins Data Center Operator ---- Chatsworth-based MRV Communications, which provides optical networking equipment, reported a win with a Sabey Data Centers this week. MRV said that Sabey has selected its optical transport platform for a data center in New York City. Financial impact of the win was not announced. 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Join us & learn what our Tech & Entertainment panel has to say about this benchmark shift in the entertainment industry. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23842 January 15, Los Angeles -- Green LAVA. Funding Your Cleantech Start-up Save the date! We're kicking off 2014 with a focus on funding clean tech start-ups. We've invited an Investment Banker, an entrepreneur, an incubator manager and a couple of special guests to inform and enlighten. HOW TO FUND YOUR CLEAN/GREEN BUSINESS IDEA Have a lean, green, clean innovation, product or business expansion idea? Looking to understand the landscape for financing or raising money here in LANEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23891 January 15, Santa Barbara -- MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast presents "Water is the New Oil" Rain Cloud Computing: How Technology Can Help Solve California's Perennial Water Woes. Willem Buiter, the chief economist at megabank Citigroup, says that water isn't just the new oil, it's more important than oil: "Water as an asset class will, in my view, become eventually the single most important physical-commodity based asset class, dwarfing oil, copper, agricultural commodities and precious metals." While massive investments to develop and transport water supplies grab headlines in California, there's a huge business opportunity that's rarely talked about: Using technological innovation to stretch existing supplies further. Imagine a world in which local water rights could be traded on a daily or even hourly basis, lowering prices while managing supplies for long-term sustainability. The technology exists, and entrepreneurs such as Mark Kram are bringing it to market. Join the Central Coast MIT Enterprise forum this Wednesday for a intriguing discussion on the role of technology now and in the future in managing California's most vital resourceNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23898 January 15, Thousand Oaks -- Clean Technology Council presents - Engine Performance and Emission Breakthrough . Transonic Combustion is the developer of the next-generation fuel injection system. •Raising $63 million in venture capital. •The future of global emissions legislation. •Market requirements in the automotive industry. •Building a Going-Green top 100 private company. •A unique approach to solving market requirements. Speaker: Worfgang Bullmer, CEO, Transonic Combustion. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23843 January 15, Santa Monica -- Digital LA - Bitcoin: What You, Consumers, Merchants, Developers Need to Know. Bitcoin has made headlines recently as a potential new worldwide virtual currency. Join us for a panel discussion on Bitcoin with industry experts. We'll discuss what Bitcoin is, how to buy, when to buy, how merchants can set up Bitcoin purchases, to advanced topics including developer tools, international effects, and additional resources for Bitcoin business / developers. We are teaming up with the Bitcoin Meetup group, with support from the Bitcoin Foundation. Speakers include: - Brock Pierce, Clearstone Global Gaming Fund; Steve Beauregard, GoCoin, Founder / CEO; Elizabeth Ploshay, Bitcoin Foundation; Joseph Hsieh, Expresscoin; - Michael Terpin, BitAngels; Moderator: Kevin Winston, Digital LA. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23865 January 15, Irvine -- New Techniques in Today's Recruiting. TechBiz Connection. One of the most expensive mistakes a business can make is a bad hire. Traditional hiring processes take lots of time, great effort, and often yield poor results. As the economy recovers, many companies are hiring. They are looking for the best candidates. The questions we will address: How are most companies hiring new employees today? What are the best practices successful companies are using today? How can technology make the hiring process more effective, more efficient, less costly, less time consuming, and more successful? We have a panel of experts in hiring, sales, technology, and HR. You will go away with specific details on how your hiring processes can be improved. You will also have access to portals and websites discussed in the program. Panelists will include Scott Kuethen, President of AMTEC, Mark Babbitt, founder of UTern.com, and Jon Ferrara, Founder Goldmine and Nimble.com. We will also have a special remote presentation from NewHire.com. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23867 January 15, Los Angeles -- Hyperloop: Transforming Transportation. UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) opens its IDEAS Lecture Series on Wednesday, Jan. 15, with "Hyperloop: Transforming Transformation" at the Hercules Campus in Playa Vista. This lecture presents a provocative look at Hyperloop, entrepreneur Elon Musk's concept for a high-speed tube transit system that could whisk passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about 30 minutes. UCLA A.UD will partner with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc., which is backed by the crowd-powered online incubator JumpStartFund, for its 2014–15 master of architecture II program, known as SUPRASTUDIO.NEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23893 January 15, Culver City -- Panel Discussion: Technology Effects on the Entertainment Industry. Tech in Motion LA is featuring Maker Studios for our biggest meet-up yet! Join us & learn what our panel has to say about the current shift in the entertainment industry. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23854 January 15, Santa Monica -- Alex Tomic Presents MoSQL. Alex Tomic presents MoSQL: An experimental elastic storage engine for MySQL. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23881 January 15, Irvine -- Workshop-Lean Analytics: Vanity vs Actionable Metrics. TCVN. Most entrepreneurs are swimming in a sea of metrics. In today's business world there is no lack of data. It is impossible to act upon every number, every data set. The question is "What are the numbers that can make the most difference to your business?" This Lean Analytics Workshop will give you strategies and tactics to more effectively and efficiently work on your business; no matter the size, type of industry, or whether it is in start-up mode. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23862 January 15, San Diego -- Electric Energy Storage Conference. This marcus evans 4th Annual Electric Energy Storage Conference will allow attendees to gain insight from best practices on staying abreast with regulatory updates, while assessing the best technological and financial case studies and histories of large scale electrical storageNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23889 January 16, Agoura -- Connections Resource Alliance - CRA. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23869 January 16, Newbury Park -- Save Your Equity, Use Equipment Financing Instead. Ventura BioCenter, The Business of Life Science Speaker Series. How To Use Equipment Leasing To Fund Capital Purchases for Life Science Companies. Glen Reneau of Fidelity Capital Partners will discuss: The Costs of Equipment Financing vs Equity; Which Types of Equipment Are the Best Candidates; How Companies Can Qualify and What Information is NeededNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23900 January 16, San Diego -- Electric Energy Storage Conference. This marcus evans 4th Annual Electric Energy Storage Conference will allow attendees to gain insight from best practices on staying abreast with regulatory updates, while assessing the best technological and financial case studies and histories of large scale electrical storageNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23890 January 18, Beverly Hills -- Music Hack LA Hackathon. Music Hack LA is a monthly music hackathon for engineers, developers, designers and musicians to create music-oriented hacks and develop them over a 8 hour period, then present your hack for advice/feedback. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23882 January 18, Santa Monica -- CodeDay Hackathon. At CodeDay you'lll pitch ideas, form teams around the coolest ones, and then spend 24 hours building something awesome. At the end, you'll present to judges. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23879 January 19, Santa Monica -- CodeDay Hackathon. At CodeDay you'lll pitch ideas, form teams around the coolest ones, and then spend 24 hours building something awesome. At the end, you'll present to judges. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23880 January 21, Torrance -- South Bay Monday Club. Meeting pitch and presentation by startupsNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23901 January 22, Murrieta Innovation Center -- TriTech SBDC Presents: Twin Cities Business Success Series. Credit Reporting - learn how to leverage this important tool Venture Capital - VCs tell you what they are looking for. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23811 January 22, Murrieta -- TriTech SBDC Presents: Twin Cities Business Success Series. Credit Reporting - learn how to leverage this important tool Venture Capital - VCs tell you what they are looking for. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23812 January 23, Thousand Oaks -- Entrepreneur Roundtable: Bootstrapping Experience from the Founders of Rocket Fizz. California Lutheran University. Rocket Fizz co-founders Rob Powells and Ryan Morgan will speak at this month’s Entrepreneur Roundtable. Learn how a local startup made the most of its resources and bootstrapped its way to a highly successful and nationally recognized company. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23872 January 23, Santa Monica -- LA Uncubed. LA Uncubed is a hiring event as innovative as the companies it showcases and the job seekers who attend. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23883 January 24, Los Angeles -- "Women Rising: The Future of Leadership" will be held at the USC Marshall School of Business. The conference will examine female leadership from several perspectives with a special focus on achieving leadership success at the highest level of any organization. Speakers will include female executives from several industries. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23847 January 24, Santa Monica -- hackTECH Hack By The Beach. Between this January 24th and 26th, 1500 of United States’ top student-programmers have been invited to California’s Santa Monica Place to hack on the sand in true west coast fashion: party busses are transporting hackers from all over California, meanwhile the organizers are frantically trying to fill the overwhelming demand from East Coast and Midwest engineer talent. With the help of Red Bull and Grammy-Winner Jermaine Dupri, students will be working for 36 motivated hours to produce creative websites, apps, or hardware using any open source libraries and API--the only catch is that all code must be written during the hackathon. The event expects a heavy showing from Caltech, UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley, USC, UMich, UPenn, and over 50 other schools at university, community college, and high school level. The event will be judged by notable founders of StartEngine, Tinder, and Launchpad LANEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23903 January 25, Santa Monica -- hackTECH Hack By The Beach. Between this January 24th and 26th, 1500 of United States’ top student-programmers have been invited to California’s Santa Monica Place to hack on the sand in true west coast fashion: party busses are transporting hackers from all over California, meanwhile the organizers are frantically trying to fill the overwhelming demand from East Coast and Midwest engineer talent. With the help of Red Bull and Grammy-Winner Jermaine Dupri, students will be working for 36 motivated hours to produce creative websites, apps, or hardware using any open source libraries and API--the only catch is that all code must be written during the hackathon. The event expects a heavy showing from Caltech, UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley, USC, UMich, UPenn, and over 50 other schools at university, community college, and high school level. The event will be judged by notable founders of StartEngine, Tinder, and Launchpad LANEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23904 January 26, Santa Monica -- hackTECH Hack By The Beach. Between this January 24th and 26th, 1500 of United States’ top student-programmers have been invited to California’s Santa Monica Place to hack on the sand in true west coast fashion: party busses are transporting hackers from all over California, meanwhile the organizers are frantically trying to fill the overwhelming demand from East Coast and Midwest engineer talent. With the help of Red Bull and Grammy-Winner Jermaine Dupri, students will be working for 36 motivated hours to produce creative websites, apps, or hardware using any open source libraries and API--the only catch is that all code must be written during the hackathon. The event expects a heavy showing from Caltech, UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley, USC, UMich, UPenn, and over 50 other schools at university, community college, and high school level. The event will be judged by notable founders of StartEngine, Tinder, and Launchpad LANEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23905 January 28, Santa Monica -- 2014 Startup Forecast. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. 28 in Santa Monica. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23884 January 29, Los Angeles, CA. -- DiscoverMe. DiscoverMe will feature discussions on the impact crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and new media play in transforming the current business landscape, bringing together over 500 inspirational creators, founders, and investors to participate in boundary breaking conversation while forming valuable new relationships.. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23844 January 29, Los Angeles -- DiscoverMe LA. At the end of the month, DiscoverMe (www.DiscoverMe.org) is bringing together today's most influential leaders in technology, finance, and media for a leadership summit in Los Angeles. This year, we are discussing the impact crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and new media play in market validation and the launch of new ventures with a select group of content creators, entrepreneurs, and investors. The DiscoverMe experience is changing the traditional format of what a typical conference represents. The conversation at the event is similar to a TED conference with high level attendees you would expect at a Founder's Forum or Summit Series type conferenceNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23895 January 30, Los Angeles -- Growth Capital Conference. Network with capital sources, advisors, deal makers and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital & counsel. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases attractive firms needing growth capital. View products, videos, online demos. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23785 January 30, Los Angeles -- DiscoverMe LA. At the end of the month, DiscoverMe (www.DiscoverMe.org) is bringing together today's most influential leaders in technology, finance, and media for a leadership summit in Los Angeles. This year, we are discussing the impact crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and new media play in market validation and the launch of new ventures with a select group of content creators, entrepreneurs, and investors. The DiscoverMe experience is changing the traditional format of what a typical conference represents. The conversation at the event is similar to a TED conference with high level attendees you would expect at a Founder's Forum or Summit Series type conferenceNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23896 January 31, Los Angeles -- DiscoverMe LA. At the end of the month, DiscoverMe (www.DiscoverMe.org) is bringing together today's most influential leaders in technology, finance, and media for a leadership summit in Los Angeles. This year, we are discussing the impact crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and new media play in market validation and the launch of new ventures with a select group of content creators, entrepreneurs, and investors. The DiscoverMe experience is changing the traditional format of what a typical conference represents. The conversation at the event is similar to a TED conference with high level attendees you would expect at a Founder's Forum or Summit Series type conferenceNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23897 February 11, Beverly Hills -- The Business Of Sports... How Technology Is Changing The Game. Amplify Roundtables. PANELISTS INCLUDE: Greg Isaacs - Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media, NFL; David M. Carter - Executive Director, USC Marshall Sports Institute; Jennifer van Dijk - Senior Vice President Digital, Wasserman Media Group;Moderator: Marty Shindler, CEO at The Shindler Perspective, IncNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23894 February 12, Temecula -- TriTech SBDC Presents: Twin Cities Business Success Series. Insurance - this is a key component to a well-run business Going Global - how do you expand into international markets. 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