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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

TechCrunch LA

Demand for ChargerHelp’s service has attracted customers and investors. The funds will be used to build out its platform, hire beyond its 27-person workforce and expand its service area. While ChargerHelp is couched as an on-demand repair app, it is also acts as a preventative maintenance service for its customers.

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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

m are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators. m are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators. Marty Zwilling.

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

TechCrunch LA

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators. are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators. Marty Zwilling.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. They often aren’t great at planning development work. I don’t believe it. Most often they are not.

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LegalZoom Founder Brian Liu Talks About His New Legal Startup, BizCounsel

socalTECH

You only call them typically when you need some particular thing done, like a big contract, or some major corporate transaction. At one point at LegalZoom, I stepped away from day-to-day duties, and spent some time developing real estate. So where is BizCounsel now, and where is the service at the moment? I was really miserable.

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Interview With Paul Myer, Veracity: Why The Industrial Internet Needs Security

socalTECH

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to help develop tools to secure the power grid. OT networks had a parallel development track with IT systems, but had primarily been focused on industrial applications. Thanks for the time today.