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Audi’s next all-electric vehicle, the e-tron Sportback, is a “coupé” SUV

TechCrunch LA

The e-tron Sportback reveal ahead of the LA Auto Show follows the launch earlier this year of Audi’s first all-electric vehicle, the 2019 e-tron. Audi has delivered 18,500 of its all-electric e-tron SUVs globally since March 2019 when the vehicle first came to market. The base price of the Sportback is 71,350 ($79,000).

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Sundae snags $36M to build out its distressed property marketplace

TechCrunch LA

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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8 New Ways To Focus On Customers For Trust And Profit

Startup Professionals Musings

Pushing yourself on customers by touting features and price doesn’t work anymore. Supplement this feedback with more formal modern satisfaction surveys, like the Net Promoter Score. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/16/2019. Yet all of these do very little unless you follow-up and act on the input.

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10 Realities Today Cause Startups To Bypass An IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. The M&A alternative looks simple by comparison. Constant pressure to increase earnings.

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5 Unique Elements Make A Winning Selling Proposition

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, everyone would agree that a cure for cancer is a worthy solution, if you can show evidence that it works, and can be replicated and sold for a rational cost and price in the market today. The net value of this solution from the customer’s perspective. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01-22-2019.

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Interview with Greg Martin, LiquidStock

socalTECH

We closed in January of 2019. I have seen employees how have a lion's share of their net worth tied up in options, and have a very difficult time to exercise those options. But, not only is the cost of exercising them costly, in terms of shares times exercise price, but the tax effects of those exercises tends to be even more dramatic.

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Bio Roundup: Mylan’s Shock, Hillary’s 3%, Duchenne Lessons & More

Xconomy

Mylan bumped up the price of the EpiPen 400 percent, presidential nominee Hillary Clinton responded with a tirade against drug price hikes, and—much like when Clinton railed against drug pricing last year—biotech indexes promptly plummeted more than 3 percent. It was the tweet heard around the biotech world, again.

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