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An LA-led, public-private partnership pitches a $150B green infrastructure package to Congress

TechCrunch LA

All of that charging infrastructure and grid upgrades are in part designed to help meet the increased power demands that the proposal expects to bring onto the grid through another $25 billion in government funding for electric vehicles of all types.

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5 Key Points Of Focus For Every Scalable New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. Nail the go-to-market strategy. Nail the business model.

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How Serviz Plans To Conquer The Home Services Industry

socalTECH

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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“Nail It Then Scale It” - The New Mantra For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. Nail the go-to-market strategy. Nail the business model.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. What price will your customer ultimately accept? The US market is worth more than $25 billion and Europe is the same. But you should.

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Interview with Buck Jordan, Miso Robotics

socalTECH

I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does. The demand is there. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso?

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