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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

Founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in 2012, ServiceTitan is very much an up-and-coming billion-dollar business that’s a family (minded) affair. Battery isn’t the only marquee investor to find value in ServiceTitan’s business developing software managing day labor.

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Interview with Mike Macadaan, Urbandig

socalTECH

It became a project of passion, and we wanted to get it done super quick, because we believed in it, and saw that there were many others trying to do the same thing--big companies--who had been trying to do this for years, but just hadn't cracked the code. He was open to it, didn't have a blog, and is a very charismatic, budding comedian.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. blog comments powered by Disqus. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM. October 17, 2012 1:15 PM. Social media. Google Plus. Social games.

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Identifying Pain in the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How

Both Sides of the Table

If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA. Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” Click here.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Profitability.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. .” One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets. Year in, year out.

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Profitability Helps San Diego Lender Step Out from Industry Cloud

Xconomy

LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded. billion in loans since 2012, when its business “morphed” into an alternative lender, according to founder and CEO Dave Gilbert. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.