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

TechCrunch LA

More specifically, it’s the contractors that service equipment like the heating, ventilation and cooling systems at commercial and residential properties across the U.S. The two men built a suite of services to help contractors like their fathers manage their businesses.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. For them to use us, it's a fraction of that to subscribe to our service. How did you get into this?

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) This is a huge industry dominated by Western Union with a very limited service to its users. Customers had requested that we build out a more robust solution than our current product had.

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Top 5 Apps For those Facing disabilities

Tech Zulu Event

Hamilton CapTel provides a captioning service that allows the phone to transfer the audio in calls into text through the application. It also allows you to report any situations where you see someone parked in a handicapped parking space illegally.

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

SoCal CTO

How to Enchant Your Customer - How to Change the World , November 23, 2010 I love to do business with small businesses—in-store, online, for myself, for others, for pleasure, for work—it doesn’t matter to me. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. This doesn’t make sense.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see? and Flipboard Rock - How to Change the World , August 24, 2010 In the last few weeks two companies have released services that enable you to take tweets and turn them into a newspaper or magazine format: Paper.li We declined.

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

Both Sides of the Table

Paying customers. My business has a bunch of them, and a lot more users who really depend on our service. People gave you money to use your service. Failing fast is to disrespect the very customers who placed their trust in you. MAKE SURE that you pay all of their expense reports that are outstanding.

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