TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

(If you have growth marketing agencies or freelancers to recommend, please fill out our survey !). But regardless of whether you can afford this, we think you’ll learn interesting lessons from our conversation with their CRO, Greg Gillman. What are some of the things your data team focuses on?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

Upfront Ventures has a deep-seated commitment to equality in funding & building diverse teams across all ethnicities, nationalities and genders. We believe that diverse teams produce diversity of thought and that this leads to better decisions and outcomes. Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion. Feel free to copy or edit this, too.

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Startup San Diego

JANUARY 8, 2024

That’s why our team […] The post The Newest Hub for Startup Events: SSD Startup Calendar In Partnership with The Social Coyote appeared first on Startup San Diego. If you’re new to San Diego or looking to get into the local startup scene, seeing which events to go to can be difficult and overwhelming.

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Berkonomics

MAY 11, 2023

But the most important ones for any size business, including start-ups, is: Do you believe it should be the quality of your management team, or the plan you execute so brilliantly toward your success? It comes back to coachability and flexibility, also our insight from several weeks ago. Great teams always have the advantage.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Many of us go through the motions of hiring to fill a position, trying to use our intuition and skills to find the best candidate for the job. And yet, aside from managing the vision of the enterprise, the most important job of a CEO is to find, recruit and make productive “A” players for the team. A science to hiring?

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

The Startup Garage is an incubator which gives preference to USC teams, or startups that are USC affiliated in some way, for example, alumni-led. Typically, we have 5-6 teams per cohort, who stay for a year. At any time we have ten to twelve teams, during normal times. It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2021

It's a place for companies and small teams to work together to get more done. Zeb Evans: We're super lucky to support all the businesses that have gone remote during the pandemic, but even pre-pandemic, our software has enabled people to work either remotely or in-person, for getting more work done and saving time.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many of us who have launched our own startups have our fondest memories of these salad days of startup life. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2022

How do you get your team to focus and move forward effectively? . A fellow CEO recently told me of her method of assuring positive movement within her team. This works for live meetings or those using video team meetings. This works for live meetings or those using video team meetings. It’s all about focus.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" This has significantly reduced the time team members spend searching for information, enabling them to stay focused on their core tasks. Our team is excited to be working at the forefront of this revolution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Being too late and you back an “also ran” You also need to be right about the team. In short: Access to great deals, ability to be invited to invest in these deals, ability to see where value in a market will be created and the luck to back the right team with the right market at the right time all matter. We do other things, too.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

Now the two women are co-founders of Angel City, leading a gaggle of venture capital, sports, and celebrity investors, alongside Angel City co-founder and President Julie Uhrman, in bringing a National Women’s Soccer League team to Los Angeles by the Spring of 2022. “We’re venture capitalists. Image Credits: Angel City.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

This technological integration into software engineering not only enhances the productivity of development teams but also ensures that IT infrastructures are robust and reliable. At TechEmpower , we’ve used generative AI across a wide range of capabilities for ourselves and our clients.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“This modern approach to risk management is not only driving strong demand for our insurance, but also enabling us to improve our products and minimize loss to our insureds,” said Iram. It’s a bet that’s paying off: the company says its frequency of claims are less than half of the industry average.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

Most of the buzz about esports focuses on high-profile professional teams and audiences watching live streams of those professionals. Below is the transcript of our conversation (edited for length and clarity) : Founding PlayVS. When I turned 16 or so, I joined two guys in opening our own Metro PCS franchise. Delane P. :

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

We graduate more engineers in our greater region than anywhere else in the US. I have the utmost respect for the tech produced by our northern colleagues and acknowledge it is the tech capital of the world and that won’t change. We know the perceptions you have of our market from our past. I had an agenda.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 7, 2020

million in financing to support the buildout of its services and sales teams to manage clients. Our 2020 goal is to build a full digital marketing solution for real estate agents looking to build successful, lead-generating digital brands,” said Malte Kramer, the company’s chief executive, in a statement.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2020

“As a founding partner to [Art of Sport] he was woven into the very fabric of our company and its vision and DNA. As a mentor we drew on his wisdom, passion and drive everyday… In the short term our thoughts and hearts are with him, Gianna and his surviving family.” An all-time legend, and our friend and supporter.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2019

For our Insights and Opinions section this morning--where we feature contributions from our readers we have a contribution from Braven Greenelsh, who talks about improving your team's efficiency. Below are five practical ways to improve team efficiency from some of the brightest minds in the business. continued.).

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As long as a biller has an electronic payment method, anyone can submit payments through our app,” Kann said. Kann teamed up with computer vision scientist Jason Meltzer, who led development for the computer vision technology behind the Roomba at iRobot, to build Papaya. It’s a true universal payment method.”. In this respect, the U.S.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Investors have to look behind the plan and at the entrepreneur and his or her team, knowing that, over time, most of us have come to the conclusion that it is the execution of the ever-changing plan, not the plan itself that makes a company a success. Punched in the face” meaning our plan’s intersection with market reality.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2021

Our interview today is with Jamey Edwards, the CEO of Cloudbreak Health, a Los Angeles-based telemedicine company, which provides telehealth services, including interpretation and access to specialists, within healthcare facilities. Our infrastructure ended up in every hospital department. Does this involve a lot of hardware?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

As I have learned through my career in business, as well as years of business consulting, team trust in each other, as well as management, is critical to the long-term success of every venture. The rest of us are still earning the trust of our team members. Build personal relationships with key team members.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 15 million first checks but we also have three growth funds.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 10, 2020

“When I was able to get close to the product, team, and customers, I knew this was something that I wanted to be a part of. This is the same transition that many of our customers are going through and Mark has already done it with one of the best.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Read on to discover our top picks, or jump to specific sections using the links below. Here are a couple of our favorites. If you manage remote or hybrid teams, RingCentral provides the best web conferencing software we've reviewed. Read our guide to the best VoIP desk phones to check out its competition. From its 4.3-inch

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

Each one incrementally sounds like a good idea, yet collectively they end up punishing undisciplined teams. I like to counsel that the best teams are often defined by what they choose not to do. Every team I fund comes across as laser focused on their core mission. ok, I know our product isn't yet verticalized.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

“ Talespin ‘s immersive platform has transformed employee learning and proven to be an impactful addition to our training programs. We’ve been incredibly impressed with Talespin ’s technology, leadership team and vision to transform the workplace through XR. Talespin previously raised $5 million in financing.

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Startup San Diego

JULY 27, 2023

When it comes to nurturing startups, San Diego boasts an incredible entrepreneurial ecosystem that has provided a solid foundation for success.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You will be able to get to all of these posts on our 2020 reflections here. Contact our editors for details. We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. million local listings, a record number.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2020

You will be able to get to all of these posts on our 2020 reflections here. Contact our editors for details. This year ushered in the successful launch our second fund at Moonshots Capital, further validating our thesis that investing in extraordinary leadership produces exceptional companies. Being grateful.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 20, 2019

The company is building out its Barcelona offices tripling its office space and planning to significantly expand its 100-person-strong team in the city. We are thrilled to expand our European footprint to accommodate our exponential growth,” said Javier Ferreira, Co-CEO of Scopely, in a statement. “I

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2020

We had a team of dedicated volunteers led by Sam Altman, which wanted to help in the COVID crisis by tapping the talent of the tech community, first in San Francisco, and then elsewhere. Deed partnered with a team of volunteers to take over and shepherd this project, through the HelpWith Foundation, which is a 501c(3) nonprofit.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

Our interview this morning is with Lidia Yan , the founder of NEXT Trucking (www.nexttrucking.com), a venture-backed startup which operates an online marketplace for freight shipping. We started in October of 2013, and last year, in December, we closed our Series B with Sequoia Capital with $21M. How did the company start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2021

Most of you now agree that hiring and maintaining a diverse team, with a variety of ethnic backgrounds and experiences, is a good thing. I will paraphrase here her seven recommendations on how to get respect from and capitalize on a diverse team: Listen without interruption, arguing, or defensiveness.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 19, 2020

One week we all thought we had our responses dedicated to supply chain disruptions. By the next week it was protecting our associates and employees. Have you called your team to brainstorm the next steps in this ever-moving black swan event? Broadening our frame of reference. Image credit: Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay.

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