GigaOM guest author Gene Landy has some great legal tips for those starting a company.
Among Landry's suggestions are to careful lock down your IP -- code you or your employees wrote is not necessarily property of the company by default. He also recommends against allowing a right of first refusal into any contract and suggests you file trademarks internationally. Read more about Legal tips for startups
The Chico News and Review has a profile on Uptime, a new coworking space in Chico.
Uptime (no link because there's no web site to be found) is temporarily located in the Golden Capital Network office while they complete construction on a 1200 sq foot office at the same location.
From the News and Review article: Read more about Coworking in Chico at Uptime
There’s a new data center in town. SacStarts' regular Mike DiCarlo has recently opened the doors of a brand new, state-of-the-art data center located in Rancho Cordova, just outside of Sacramento.
The RelyNet Data Center is a 5,000+ square foot raised floor colocation space. They’re priced competitively and offer colocation, managed hosting and disaster recovery planning in the Sacramento Area. Read more about Welcome RelyNet!
Tomorrow morning SARTA's leadership series event will feature DFJ Frontier's Scott Lenet talking about how to pitch your idea for funding. Read more about SARTA Leadership Series: How to pitch your idea for funding
Online ad network Traffic Marketplace has acquired Rocklin's Livemarkets for an undisclosed sum. Livemarkets provides a technology that gives banner ads click-to-chat features and allows consumers to have a real time chat with a salesperson. Read more about Livemarkets Acquired
Freepath's newest software is now available freely as part of a public beta. Freepath 2.0 allows users to create a multimedia presentation easily by building a playlist of media, documents, web content, and PowerPoint slides. Presenters can then show a fullscreen slideshow on one monitor or a projector while keeping the playlist open on another screen. Read more about Freepath 2.0
Locally founded Engine Yard, a provider of Ruby on Rails hosting has closed a series B round of $15 million from New Enterprise Associates, Amazon.com, and existing investor Benchmark Capital. NEA led the round, and partner Peter Sonsini is joining Engine Yard's board.
The money raised in this Series B will help Engine Yard develop a platform for cloud computing clusters and to continue funding the development of Rubinius and Merb, their open source projects. Read more about Engine Yard closes $15M Series B
I attended Golden Capital Networks' Yolo venture community launch yesterday in Davis. The event started with a startup seminar, aimed at helping new entrepreneurs understand what goes into starting a business and ended with a reception launching the venture community. Read more about Yolo Venture Community launch
I'll be attending the New California 100 on June 17th at UC Davis. This event put on by the Golden Capital Network will showcase Central Valley startups and bring entrepreneurs together with influential Central Valley companies and civic leaders.
The day will kick off with a panel on seed stage investing in the morning, and follow with sessions where local startups will show off their companies to panels of VCs and angel investors. Read more about New California 100
Earlier this year, SF based Skorman Productions began offering free adult education classes at Borders Books through a pilot program in three Sacramento area stores.
The classes were a great success, with great attendance, lots of variety in class types, and good customer feedback. Borders, however is discontinuing the program, saying that the classes were disruptive to their business. Employees were spending so much time preparing the store for classes that customer service suffered. Read more about Borders Live classes ending
