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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

TechCrunch LA

an on-demand repair app for electric vehicle charging stations, has seen these issues firsthand. One customer assumed that poor usage rates at a particular station was due to a lack of EVs in the area, Terry recalled in a recent interview. Demand for ChargerHelp’s service has attracted customers and investors. Powering up.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. How did the company start?

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

TechCrunch LA

The vast majority of those are nowhere up to modern codes. “From the invention of the semiconductor to the creation of the Internet, new engines of economic growth have emerged due to public investments that support research, commercialization, and strong supply chains,” the White House wrote.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. They had to spend time training our new resources, reviewing code, refactoring where mistakes were made, attending meetings, etc. What did he know?

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

socalTECH

What's really led us to this path, is we had an a-ha moment to understand how we could use digital technology from the ad serving and marketing automation market, and apply those same strategies and technologies and software to close the loop on direct mail. I understand both of you came out of Science Inc, the startup studio/incubator?

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

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