StartUp Beat

-More Fonality news – Culver City-based Fonality announced yesterday that it has joined the MSPAlliance, a global organization for managed service providers.  The company will also be hosting webinar on Tuesday, March 13 at 9 a.m. PDT for service providers interested in learning more about the Fonality Managed Services Program.  Fonality has been busy lately with a $7 million round of funding completed last month along with the release of a new version of its PBXtra phone system for SMBs.  For more on Fonality, see StartUp Beat’s profile on the company: Fonality Sets Sights on SMB Telephony Market
-Speaking of Fonality, the company told StartUp Beat earlier this week that it is actively searching for job candidates in marketing, sales, Perl development and technical support.  Here are the listings: www.fonality.com/careers.html
-Inc.com this week included an article, featuring L.A.-based Oversee.net’s Lawrence Ng, which deals with the issues startups face when considering whether or not to bring in outside investors (Oversee did not).  Not sure if calling investors “the seducers” is appropriate, but it is an issue that all successful startups face at one point or another, and due diligence is always appropriate.  Here’s the article: The Seducers
-ZDNet’s Ryan Stewart writes about an intriguing local startup that has developed an application for controlling the functions on a yacht.  More about Irvine-based InteliSea to come on StartUp Beat, but for now you can read about it briefly here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=282