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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com. I was a sales person at HotJobs, but after we went public I helped open up an office in Los Angeles, and lived in Los Angeles for eight years.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

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What is Startup Boost , and how is it looking to help early stage startups in Los Angeles? We recently sat down with Matt Stodder , Co-Director of Startup Boost/Los Angeles, and Blake Caldwell , Global Director of Startup Boost, to learn more about the program, what it offers up to startups. Explain what Startup Boost is?

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. I think this classifies as a “crack filler&# and I’m not sure I would have done the investment for that reason. We had a big discussion about DST and why these investments. In my mind, not a typical VC investment.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. My angel investing strategy vs Joshua Schachter - Gabriel Weinberg , May 18, 2010 Joshua Schacter has a great AMA thread on HN about angel investing. Here’s why. I know I do.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Timing your startup - Chris Dixon , November 7, 2010 I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have been a huge mistake). It is also true that there are good deals and good entrepreneurs that can't find anyone to invest in them.