Innocent Drinks’ founders tell a story about how their customers demanded they quit their proper jobs to grow their new company. #6 Innocent Drinks stays true to its promise of taking care of its customers by using 100% recycled plastic bottles which help take care of its customers’ environment. One of my goals with Mixergy is to help you build a business that’s as talked about as Cirque du Soleil, Red Bull and adidas. To do that, I invited Bertrand Cesvet, whose firm helped all three of those companies build remarkable experiences.

The firm is backed by Argentum Group, Forrest Binkley & Brown, Innocal, Inverness Capital Partners, Mission Ventures, and Omnicell. ...Tags: Lake Forest-based Nexiant , a developer of materials management software tools, announced this morning that it has named Michael Aghajanian to its board. Aghajanian was most recently CEO of supply chain firm PRTM, and also was founder of The Performance Measurement Group.

Aktino has previously raised funding from Crosspoint Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Huntington Ventures, Innocal, J.F. Irvine-based Aktino , a developer of hardware for the telecom industry, has been acquired by a Canadian firm, Positron, Inc. The firms did not disclosed financial terms of the deal, however, said that Aktino will continue to operate from its Irvine location.

SynergEyes said that the round was led by De Novo Ventures, and also included Bio-Star Private Equity Fund along with prior investors Alloy Ventures, Delphi Ventures, InnoCal Venture Capital and Windward Ventures. Carlsbad-based SynergEyes , a developer of hybrid contact lenses, announced Friday that the firm has raised $13.3M in a Series C funding round.

In the VC’s mind it is innocent enough and starts off with a “have you guys ever considered …?” Beware of VC Seagulls, who shit on you and then fly away (or worse yet leave you with Red Herrings) This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice .  I I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully.  I

Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures and InnoCal Venture Capital. Los Angeles-based Mojix , a venture backed developer of RFID technology, said this morning that it has released a new, software product targeted at RFID asset and process management. Separately, the firm also said it had inked a deal with government system integrator SRA International.

Mojix develops hardware used to extend the reach of current RFID systems, and is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and InnoCal Venture Capital. Los Angeles-based Mojix has expanded the firm's RFID products, the firm said this week. According to Mojix, it has expanded its line of RFID transmitters, adding a new line of products specifically for mobile, handheld, and outdoor use, as well as a multiple port device to supply power to passive RFID tags.

If you think all mommy bloggers are sweet and innocent and talk only about diapers and soccer games you are in for a big surprise and a real treat. The #140 Characters Conference took place over the past two days at the Kodak theater here in Los Angeles. It aimed to focus on the real-time effects of using Twitter for business, but what I took away from it had much more to do with seeing people connect in real-time.

If you think all mommy bloggers are sweet and innocent and talk only about diapers and soccer games you are in for a big surprise and a real treat. The #140 Characters Conference took place over the past two days at the Kodak theater here in Los Angeles. It aimed to focus on the real-time effects of using Twitter for business, but what I took away from it had much more to do with seeing people connect in real-time.

Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and Innocal. Tell Dr. Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com), a firm which is taking experience originally garnered by the firm's technology team in developing -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market. The company has developed technology which uses deep space communications techniques to dramatically extend the range of passive RFID tags,