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A Conversation With Appetize's Kevin Anderson On Getting Customer Service Right

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As part of the lead in to the conference, and as a part of our sponsor relationship with the conference, we're running a series of interviews with speakers from the conference about their experience in the area of recurring revenues, customer service, and similar topics. It sounds like you actually do all your customer service in house?

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Los Angeles-based Ficto launches its Quibi competitor — with Niantic as a content partner

TechCrunch LA

Consumers now have their first chance to sample the wares of a short-form streaming service — and it’s not Quibi. Ficto , a streaming service without a paywall offering interactive dramas, film adaptations, comedies, documentaries, talk shows, game shows, and news, is now live on iOS and Android.

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Canoo takes the covers off of its debut electric vehicle

TechCrunch LA

Remarkably, Canoo has completed the design and engineering of its first model in just 19 months and is preparing its vehicles for production through a contract manufacturer. The idea, the company says, is to bring convenience and afforability of a Netflix movie service to the auto industry.

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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Who is the ideal audience for this service--studios, independents, others? Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. My co-founder, Taylor Mcpartland, is the entertainment guy.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

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We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace. That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy.

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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

SoCal CTO

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development.

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Schlep & Fetch: Delivering Anything and Everything, On Demand

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Bryson Strauss: We are an on-demand delivery service. We're here to do everything you ranging from meal delivery for hundreds of restaurants, as a courier service, to pick up that credit card you accidentally left at the bar last night, to pick up extra diapers--you can call us for any of that. How does Schlep and Fetch work?

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