Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

And while that cliché has been said about everything in the Lone Star state for years, it rings particularly true for the hottest startups showcasing their big innovations at SXSW Startup Night 2018 presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo. These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2019

When Stackin initially pitched itself as part of Techstars Los Angeles accelerator program two years ago, the company was a video platform for financial advice targeting a millennial audience too savvy for traditional advisory services. It turns out that consumers didn’t want another video platform.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to the company, the new product will let financial advisors trade cryptocurrentcy 24/7 for their clients on behalf of their customers, or let their customers trade for themselves. The company claims its has nearly 5,000 customers and has processed over $300M in investments through its platform. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

This year at CES 2018 Eureka Park, the mega startup hub of the conference, the hottest early-stage startups from around the world will showcase their products and services aimed at disrupting their respective industries. Meet the startups showcasing at Eureka Park Startup Arlington this year at CES 2018: BooleanGirl.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The company--led by longtime cloud and hosting services veteran Simon Anderson--offers up managed services and consulting for cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. According to the newly formed company, it completed all three of those mergers earlier in 2018, and now has a customer base of 175 enterprises.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2020

Since the company raised its last institutional round in 2018, it has added over 300,000 properties for sale or lease across the U.S. and increased its user base to 6 million customers, according to a statement. According to chief executive, Mike DiGiorgio, the company is also recession proof thanks to its auction services.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2018

Los Angeles-based mobile communications provider FreedomPop said on Tuesday morning that it has partnered with financial services giant Prudential , to help power a new service that Prudential will up-sell to its existing customers. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, its unique-for-the-industry monthly subscription model has helped it maintain healthy profits from its loyal customer base in 2023. Calendly Calendly is an online scheduling platform popular among business and personal users. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. Runway AI user interface. million site visits in October alone.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2022

In February, ecommerce platform Etsy revealed that a record fourth quarter had earned them $717.1 Starting today, they're going on strike for a week in protest of the price change, which they say is just the latest in a series of decisions that have squeezed the small-business sellers who depend on the Etsy platform to survive.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

In total, more than $60 billion was invested in LA startups in 2018. Additional Fika portfolio companies include Asian food delivery business Chowbus , Elementary Robotics , a developer of robot assistants, and Chatdesk , a customer support messaging platform.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2019

According to Fair, the funding will help the company secure vehicles for entry-level car customers who might not otherwise qualify for a traditional loan or lease. Fair is led by automotive and startup veteran Scott Painter.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. Below is a screenshot of the email sent Tuesday morning to Maven customers. Maven had paused service due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Image Credits: Screenshot/Maven email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ? By 2018 I sensed that he was right and we began focusing more on our barbell approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Validate your solution with a prototype and real customers. You need something real that investors and customers can touch and feel. Most investors expect a minimum viable product (MVP) sold to at least one customer. You need early customer advocacy and feedback before critical time and money are spent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Digital marketing is all about establishing a voice and sending a message that customers can relate too, and makes you stand out. Put your customer at the top, rather than technology. Prioritize the list by customer reach, effort required by you, as well as cost. Research the top digital channels for your business today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Most of the entrepreneurs I advise today are ready to declare success when they get that first surge of traction with a real customer. You need to find investors for funding, vendors for volume manufacturing, processes for repeatable execution, as well as marketing and distribution to attract customers far beyond your pilot rollout.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

New platforms led by YouTube have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways. In addition, there are incentives for referring others to the platform.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. Glossier founder Emily Weiss speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018 Image Credits: TechCrunch. What does that even mean?”

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

They’re a huge commerce platform, too, working with 60,000 publishers around the globe. The eBay affiliate program brings the same basic appeal that Amazon’s originally did – truly massive customer base. eBay is a huge ecommerce platform, earning an annual revenue north of $10 billion in 2018 alone. eBay Partner Network.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

“We had originally planned to spend more time with in person care and then actually launch our digital platform — telehealth — in 2021. The team started working with this practice in late 2018, with a formal partnership following on last year. Early growth in visits is running at 100%, month over month, per Carmy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/17/2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The closure might surprise some, considering Coup has brand recognition and, according to the company a loyal customer base that uses its services. At CES in 2018, the company introduced its new Samsung DRVLINE platform — an “open, modular, and scalable hardware and software-based platform for the autonomous driving market.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2018

The insurance industry is an old industry, with a lot of contradictions--it's one where the more claims insurers pay to help customers, the less money the insurers make--and it's also one that hasn't been disrupted much yet by technology. However, overall we'll be customizing that out. That legacy system has been absolutely necessary.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

For example, they might want to see what version of a song to put on an EP or not, or which songs they might want to put additional marketing behind on other platforms. What makes us different from streaming platforms, is that when you're sitting in the back of a car and ride share, you're sitting in an unbiased environment.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

While 2018 was all about better understanding the SoCal opportunity, 2019 was about honing our focus and defining our core programs. Furthermore, if we can get these platform companies to lean-in, they bring significant resources that are vital to moving the massive SoCal ecosystem. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

For example, they might want to see what version of a song to put on an EP or not, or which songs they might want to put additional marketing behind on other platforms. What makes us different from streaming platforms, is that when you're sitting in the back of a car and ride share, you're sitting in an unbiased environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Whether our business is a startup or a multi-national brand, through platforms like Amazon, giant players have no special advantage. Brand scaling is driven by customers, not by business, large or small. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/18/2018. Brands are speaking through rather than to consumers.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, US Government agencies suffered 1108 data breaches between 2005 and 2018 1. A dedicated Internet access service is best suited to government agencies and business customers with 20 or more employees, or for situations where uninterrupted uptime is essential. Switched Ethernet service.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

With so many APIs, SaaS ecosystems, and cloud platforms to rely on, a digital product that may have taken five years to get off the ground in 2000 can now be brought to life in a matter of months. Anyone could submit an idea, and others in the customer community could participate by upvoting and commenting on the ideas they liked best!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What kinds of customers are using your service? Daniel Scalisi: We've got many nationally recognized organizations, including the Children's Miracle Network, the National Breast Cancer Association, the Humane Society, which are just a few of our customers. We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed.

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