TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. Since 2016, some 400 students, almost all women, have completed the course. Thankfully, now that appears to be changing.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Playa Vista-based Appetize , which develops tablet-based, modern point-of-sale (POS) technology for the food service and retail markets, says it has doubled its employee count in the last year to 200, as it sees what it calls "exponential" growth in its business. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2017

Episona develops an epigenetic test which examines DNA for risk factors related to male factor fertility and poor embryo quality. Episona has been offering up its test since October of 2016. According to Episona, the funding came from the Pasadena Angeles, as well as other high-net worth individuals from Pasadena and San Francisco.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2018

ShippingEasy , the developer of cloud-based shipping, inventory management, and customer marketing software arm of El Segundo-based Stamps.com is targeting third party Amazon sellers today, with a new product release. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2016

San Diego-based residential solar power installer OneRoof Energy said late Friday that it has "significantlyr educed" its work force, and has begun winding down its operations, after it said it was unable to secure financing necessary to continue sales, marketing, and development. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 3, 2016

In addition to the CEO news, Spireon said it saw "record breaking" sales in the first quarter of 2016. The company did not provide any financial details on those sales, only saying it had double digit growth in revenues and units compared with Q1 of last year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

Many entrepreneurs assume that everyone will love their solution as much as they do, so they tune their marketing focus based on their own needs and wants. Expanding your market into these areas requires thinking outside your personal box. Identify your built-in biases and define compensating development and marketing strategies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Our interview this morning is with Vahid Manian , the Chief Operating Officer of Morse Micro (www.morsemicro.com), a semiconductor startup which is developing chips for the Wi-Fi HaLow market. We are focused on developing Wi-Fi HaLow 802.11ah, which was solidified back in 2016. It's a new Wi-Fi starndard.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Oculus has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into funding VR content, and while the headset market is still small, developers have built plenty of games and experiences. Early Bird tickets are still on sale for one more week. See full agenda here. Kickstarting an Industry. Yelena Rachitsky [ Oculus ] .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2016

There are a few entrepreneurs who seem to always be ahead of the rest, and are able to sense where the market is going tomorrow. Lone scientists may uncover some great technology, but a team is required to build a solution and a market. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 05/11/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Use every marketing channel available.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Entrepreneurs who are looking to attract investors need to develop and pitch a plan -- preferably written -- that answers every potential investor question about your startup before it is asked. How big and growing is the total market and your target segment? They like billion-dollar markets with double-digit growth rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2016

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Aggressively enter new markets and sales channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

The right channel for marketing and distribution is one of the basic “four Ps” of business (product, promotion, price and placement). For growing revenue and market share, it’s a key element of your overall strategy, and one that can make or break you. In many product areas, especially retail, the channel is the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2016

Even worse, this “feature creep” often makes the final product late to market, sluggish and more expensive than competition. Focus” is the key to success in a startup, and a minimum viable product (MVP) that does a few things better than anyone else will get more attention quicker from your market. Sometimes it pays to say “no.”

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2017

Marcus Filipovich: I joined as Chief Executive Officer in January of 2016, however, our founders are really the pioneers in the area of using eye signs for drug enforcement. That's a bridge to our Series A, which we'll be using for scaling up sales and marketing. How big of a market is there for all of this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

For example, at any given moment in your business, you may be limited by development, marketing, or sales. These days, there are many companies around the world, with the skills and equipment you need, ready to assist with development resources, marketing programs, or call centers immediately.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Department of Energy to help develop tools to secure the power grid. OT networks had a parallel development track with IT systems, but had primarily been focused on industrial applications. We also have a development office in Atlanta, where most of our developers sit. Thanks for the time today.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

This week we’ll focus on the city of Austin, gain insight into Uber’s spending habits, do a little scooter number crunching, the Tesla Model Y, and the so-called “race” — an overused and inaccurate term — to develop autonomous vehicles. ONM … There are OEMs in the automotive world. Cymbal clash!)

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In 2016, that represented a couple of unique concepts. As time has gone on, the company then shifted into the ridesharing market, essentially operating as a car availability platform for Uber and Lyft drivers. Brad Stewart: There was a lot of business development on this partnership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

After listening to hundreds of startup pitches, and reading even more business plans, most new venture investors develop their own favorite list of “red flags” that signal the beginning of the end of their interest. Target market sizing higher than $10 billion. Sales projections are less than one percent market penetration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

His focus is primarily on improving the results for traditional sales professionals, but I’m convinced that the same principles are equally critical for entrepreneurs selling their startup to investors, strategic partners, and customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 09/24/2016.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What that's done, is it's create a large hit in this space, at the top right end of the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on reports by Data Flair , Gartner , and other sources : Targeted marketing. By transforming a single shopper's path into data points, companies can see how you move through a store, and how that tracks with sales. Big data’ can mean big profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

If your new venture is still in the idea or development stages, don’t even think about a high valuation. If you don’t yet have a hundred investors knocking on your door, it’s time to put more focus on viral marketing, closing customers, and exponential growth. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/29/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2016

The right first step is to go back to your goals to focus on the real limiting factors when you encounter problems with sales, growth, profitability, market share, or costs. Many techniques have been developed, such as brainstorming , to expand your thinking and identify up to twenty solutions for a given problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Seek evidence of market opportunity to balance your passion. These days, there are over 150 credible market-research companies online sizing opportunities, including Nielsen and Gartner. The average overnight success for a startup takes six years, say marketing expert Seth Godin. A business is a journey -- not a quick sprint.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

As an entrepreneur looking for an idea, it makes sense to explore problem areas within your knowledge comfort zone, but when you are building a business with the solution, you have to stretch your comfort zone to keep up with the market and stay ahead of competitors. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 09/13/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

As any business grows, you need help to make it happen, and new employees don’t have the background knowledge, training, or the problem-solving ability you have developed. A great vision, and the creativity to develop an innovative solution, are necessary but not sufficient to build a great business.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. is providing back-office support for clinicial trials; and Clarify Medical has developed technology that simplifies the current treatment for psoriasis and eczema.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2016

Full autonomy to go above and beyond in sales and customer-service roles will increase team engagement as well as customer satisfaction. For example, Zappos brings in thought leaders from personal development, education, community, philanthropy and other realms to share their ideas for motivation and engagement. Are you there yet?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Unlike sites of the past that were deemed illegal, the current crop of election sites appear to well positioned to exploit the unprecedented focus Americans are applying to the 2016 election cycle. Shortly thereafter, we began developing apps and websites out of Brent’s garage. Fantasy Pollster.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

Two days later, it paid AstraZeneca $550 million upfront for the rights to a group of antibiotics either already on the market or in late-stage testing. The deal also includes a $175 million deferred payment due in 2019 and $850 million in downstream payouts tied to regulatory and sales targets. Morgan party.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. Despite the benefits of developing an app, there are valid reasons why retailers choose not to invest in one. MYTH: Development costs are too high. Developing an app is costly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 04/29/2016. Not every entrepreneur needs to scale.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. It was a logical system to start offering up cloud-based systems like those we had developed. Our hands are full handling all of that growth.

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