Monday, March 27, 2006Interview with David Cremin, LAVAI recently caught up with David Cremin, a venture capitalists at DFJ Frontier, who his been out promoting the Los Angeles Venture Association's Investment Capital Conference (icc.lava.org), which is being held in April. I talked with him a little about the conference, and also about what the venture capital environment is like right now.
Ben Kuo: Tell me a little bit about the Investment Capital Conference, and in particular, what's the Capital Zone?
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LogicBlaze Launches Web Services SuiteMarina Del Rey-based LogicBlaze today launched a new open source, SOA (Web Services) platform. The open source software firm said today that its LogicBlaze FUSE platform provides a packaged and pre-validated set of software for the SOA market. LogicBlaze has integrated software from the Apache Software Foundation and Apache Software Foundation Incubator, targeted at Web 2.0 applications. The elements of the LogicBlaze platform include a number of application middleware components targeted at Aja (More info...)
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Iomega Adds To Board, Hires CFOSan Diego-based Iomega today said that it has appointed Dan Maurer to its board of directors, and hired a new CFO, Preston Romm. Maurer is currently VP of Marketing at Intuit, where he heads up the marketing for the popular Turbo Tax brand. Maurer fills the board position vacated by Iomega's ex-CEO, Werner Heid. Preston Romm joins Iomega from Dot Hill Systems, where he was VP of Finance, CFO, Treasurer and Secretary. Romm has also served at Verteq, MTI, and STM Wireless.
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LightPointe Adds HDTV Optical LinkSan Diego-based LightPointe, a developer of free space optics systems, has rolled out a new system that supports high bandwidth HDTV transmissions. The firm said today its new FlightStrata HD wireless solutions meets the requirements for sending High-Definition Television (HDTV) quality broadcast video and audio feeds across a wireless link. The company said that its system is designed for bandwidth-intensive HDTV, point-to-point wireless communications. The company is targeting the system for c (More info...)
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