TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

Our learnings and developments from Maven will go on to benefit and accelerate the growth of other areas of GM business.”. Maven developed and launched a smartphone app, which was used by customers to search for and reserve a vehicle, unlock the door and remotely start, cool or heat the car. . Image Credits: Screenshot/Maven email.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This probably isn’t news to developers, but it was news to me when I found out many tech companies still use slave-master language. Then, in 2018, programming language Python ditched the racist terminology. Meanwhile, we’re seeing ads for Yes on 22 inside on-demand apps. You can sign up here. ” Don’t Miss.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 12, 2022

In 2018, co-founders Schuyler Deerman and James Chan started selling healthy meals at WeWork offices around Los Angeles out of giant Yeti coolers, standing around the kitchens during lunch time. Positive Food Co., Amazon expands palm-scanning payment tech to 65 more Whole Foods locations. The voracious fight for your salad bowl.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 20, 2019

next to New York and Chicago, the LAFD has a budget of roughly $691 million, employs more than 3,500 and responded to 492,717 calls in 2018. At the time, the Chinese drone manufacturer and imaging technology developer announced an agreement to test and deploy DJI drones as an emergency response preparedness tool.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the company has been steadily rising through the ranks since its inception in 2018, as generative AI becomes big tech’s new gold standard, the New York-based startup has enjoyed a very triumphant 2023. And with direct traffic making up 71% of Caledly’s total traffic, demand for the scheduling tool is likely to remain strong into 2024.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

It’s a matter of survival thanks to the persistent lack of demand from consumers. . million head mounted displays sold in 2018, according to data from Canalys. By 2018, New York was home to at least seven virtual reality spaces where users could experience the technology, according to The New York Times.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. Steve Jobs proved it with the iPhone, and Elon Musk can’t produce his electric cars fast enough to keep up with demand. Concept marketing is critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

On the other hand, many investors, including billionaire entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" co-host Mark Cuban, essentially demand an all-in early approach as a pre-requisite to funding, making it clear that a total commitment is expected if you want outside money. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/11/2018.

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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. billion investment in 2018. Cymbal clash!) Take bike share.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

In that process, we realized that those drones we were developing could be used for bad purposes by people out there. Luke Fox: It has been deployed in a pilot program for 12 months, all during 2018, in a wide variety of different environments around the world. How did the company start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Later, as you scale the business, is the time to add products or service offerings that customers demand to make the business more robust. You need skills in finance, operations, and marketing to supplement product development, and more hours of work than one person can manage. Building and running a business is not a solo operation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

The status quo trap is set when things have gone well for a while, and you are too busy to look ahead to see what’s around the corner, or commit time and resources into developing the next generation of innovative ideas. Then when market demand slows, you are not able to react in time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The question is how we develop our future role and potential, while satisfying all the business and personal demands on our time today. You also need to change your company mindset, from always looking outside for change, to developing a culture of learning and career development for current employees.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Depending on the throughput for a location, how many people per hour, we can scale the attraction to meet the demand. 2018 is the year people will get a chance to experience SPACES. We take that physical space, and transform into a virtual playground, a videogame and movie interactive experience. In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

The software directs humans and trucks to balance the tide of idle bicycles to other areas of a city where the demand is higher at the moment, rather than humans directing software. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/17/2018. The efficiency gain is tremendous. Get data flowing, and machines talking to each other.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. They are very few and far between, partially because the demand is not out there.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 26, 2022

Holey Grail Donuts started selling its hand-fried, made-to-order taro donuts on Sunday mornings out of a little red burger trailer in Kauai in 2018. We currently have over 60 flavors that we’ve developed over the past couple of years.”. The fun part?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. Startups are messy and development is seldom linear and up-and-to-the right. We spent a few hundred thousand dollars opening up operations in Chicago and Washington D.C.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach.

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