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Postmates is launching a new retail delivery feature as brick and mortar stores face 14% drop in sales

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Postmates is now rolling out what could be the biggest update to the company’s service in a long time — adding a retail option for users to shop local stores and for local merchants to set up a virtual on-demand storefront in the app. “ Most of the LA metro area will have access to the tab. Image Credit: Postmates.

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HelloTech: On Demand, In-Home Tech Support Via College Students Near You

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Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. We spoke with CEO and founder--and longtime startup veteran-- Richard Wolpert about the company. It's also a market that is growing.

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Private tech companies mobilize to address shortages for medical supplies, masks and sanitizer

TechCrunch LA

Startups across the nation and around the world are looking for ways to relieve shortages of much-needed personal protective equipment and sanitizers used to halt the spread of COVID-19. ” Against this backdrop local startups and maker spaces are stepping up to do what they can to fill the gap.

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Lyft Launches Ridesharing App In LA

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Lyft's app--which works with both iPhone and Android--lets users offer rides to people on-demand, at what it says is a "fraction of the cost" of a cab. The service has been only available previously in San Francisco, but said it will now start serving trips in Santa Monica, Venice and West L.A. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Tech Community Grows, As Another Tech Law Firm Sets Up Shop

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High tech startups--and the service providers who serve the industry--are continuing to cluster along Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, as Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , one of the Los Angeles legal firms focused on the high tech market, announced a grand opening date for a new office on the 3rd Street Promenade.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. What started as sheets now has dozens of SKU’s. where would you even start in terms of product selection?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.