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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

Bobbie One startup that's proved to have the formula for success this year is Bobbie – the first infant formula to be certified as organic by the USDA, and the fastest-growing product of its kind to enter the US market since the 1980s. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage.

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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. Mahdessian and Kuzoyan met on a ski trip organized by the Armenian student associations at Stanford and the University of Southern California back when both men were in college.

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How to Find and Hire a Developer

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At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Ask for is code samples. arcticempire.ca – mobile app development & code review based in Canada, Ask for Josh. Below are some take away tips… and the video of the of the panel.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

Teams reconvened Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and continued to code and build their startup throughout the day. As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! Those with their ideas selected were out on the prowl, looking to recruit the top designer or developer in the room. Coffee is for closers!”

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

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. The best CEOs realize that they need to build organizations and hierarchy and delegate decision making while still holding their teams accountable.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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.” The goal is to get the customer speaking about their organization. This article initially appeared on Inc.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

socalTECH

Ryan Blair: As you know, I sold ViSalus back in 2012, but ended up buying it back in 2014, and then we sold the company to a public company. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. We hired the ex-CTO of Sears, and other senior executives out of Disney in software.