TechCrunch LA

JULY 10, 2019

Automakers and startups alike are increasingly offering services that give buyers new opportunities and greater flexibility around owning and using vehicles. In the first part of this feature , we explored the different startups attempting to change car buying. Cars-as-a-Service. But not everyone wants to buy a car. Don’t buy, lease.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kauffman Foundation , the numbers are here to show it. The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2013

Saturday, January 26, 2013 -- Intro to the Los Angeles Startup Community. This free class is an orientation to help newcomers to the startup scene get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in Los Angeles. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Every so often I find myself caught up in a really hectic 3-4 week schedule where it seems like I float endlessly betweens meetings. I get sucked up in “Do” mode. Startups Are for Doers. But getting caught up in the doing can often leave you directionless. Or quit their startup to do something different.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Shipwell , a startup pitching a marketplace for domestic ground shipping and fleet and cargo management services for freight trucking companies, has raised $10 million in a new round of funding. And the small-fleet shipping companies that make up the bulk of the industry. trucking services. .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So pervasive has this thinking become that on several occasions startup companies with profitable & fast growing services businesses have come to me wanting to show me the product businesses they created internally to see whether they would be financeable or whether they might be able to create “spin outs&# that could be financed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2013. Earlier this year, a new study “ 2013 Business Outlook Survey: A New Reality Of Cautious Optimism ” was published by EKS&H. Soak up the optimism, do some real financial planning, and push the limits on a ll business fronts. fiscal cliff.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

We’re excited to announce TechZulu is officially partnering with New Media Expo (formerly BlogWorld) to create a Startup Launchpad at their next event taking place January 6-8, 2013 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas. What does this mean for you ? See you in Vegas!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. ” Don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds. The Motive for Speaking Up. ” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” So prices start dropping.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). billion deal to Disney.

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Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2019

Katelyn O’Shaughnessy already had a solid track record, selling TripScope , a travel startup she co-founded in 2013, to Travefy two years ago. Women, finding themselves outside of the club, are now creating their own networks to do the same.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Cybersecurity startup AttackIQ has appointed veteran tech executive Brett Galloway as its new CEO. Chenette, now chief technology officer, co-founded the company in 2013 with Rajesh Sharma, AttackIQ’s vice president of engineering. Wright was hired as chief revenue officer in August 2017. AttackIQ said that Galloway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2013

They become frustrated when they are unable to build their startup in a weekend, and give up way too soon when the path to real success seems to be interminable. A successful startup needs to be a daily task, with consistent focus. Getting started is always a challenge. Frequency keeps insights current.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

The rise of startups is becoming one of the strongest engines of job growth and economic growth all around the world. As the capital needed to start a small business continues to fall, the number of software companies being started is exploding. There’s a lot of uncertainty in startup companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kauffman Foundation , the numbers are here to show it. The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2021, from 280 to 360 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. 04% full, you should start looking for a new container. Time to start connecting them with each other. When the glass is only.04%

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

See my Forbes article on “ Get A Domain Name Without Bankrupting Your Startup ” Michael Fertik and David Thompson outline this issue and others in their book “ Wild West 2.0. Here are some of the easiest methods Fertik and I recommend for creating positive and neutral content: Blogging. Twittering. Profile sites. Marty Zwilling.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The doors have opened at a GE Healthcare-supported open-access lab for startups at AstraZeneca’s former global center for oncology research and development at Alderley Park, the largest bioscience research campus in the UK. Public-private partnership and science park.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2013

In a recent blog, “ Capitalism: Alternative Realities ?” Model business examples today include Whole Foods, Southwest Airlines, Costco, Google, Patagonia, The Container Store, UPS, and dozens of others. If making money is your primary motivation for starting a business, be prepared for a long and lonely road.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Instead, Aha is a bootstrapped startup. Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service. Brian de Haaff wonders this sometimes, especially as compared to his own tech business, Aha.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Start simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. If all you ever do is create YouTube content then I agree – that’s not a viable startup business. This kind of spend happens all day long inside startup companies and 100% of the spend on attracting customers is a cost.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2018

As the Xconomy Forum on Big Data Meets Big Biology draws near, one of the best arguments for understanding the significance of the convergence of data science and the life sciences may lie in what came out of the 2013 sale of San Diego’s EcoATM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. 04% full, you should start looking for a new container. Time to start connecting them with each other. When the glass is only.04%

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After a successful run through NYC-based Kaplan Edtech accelerator program (powered by Techstars), the team at MentorMob have been gearing up for a 2014 re-launch; same MentorMob name, but as Vince tells us, with a more community-based focus (don’t worry, a little more on that later). When was their inspiration for starting the company?

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

Adam Riggs-Zeigen has come a long way since 2013, when he co-founded San Diego’s Rock My World and introduced the mobile app RockMyRun to provide upbeat music playlists to motivate smartphone-equipped runners. “We We found that it expanded into other avenues, like fitness studios,” Riggs-Zeigen recalled in a recent interview.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Robert Morris was a military drone platoon leader in Afghanistan, where he started thinking about the potential of aerial imagery in agriculture. He later became a chapter president of the Drone Industry Association, and explored the idea of setting up a business providing drone surveillance of farmland.

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Xconomy

JUNE 13, 2019

The new Series B round will give San Francisco-based BlackThorn—a startup spun out of the Scripps Research Institute in 2013—the backing to run human tests of two experimental treatments. The other, for autism, could start a Phase 1 study in 2020. Those plans.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2014

Starting with the submission of the idea all the way through to the manufacture and marketing, everything Quirky develops is touched by thousands of minds from its 947,000-strong community of inventors. “By mid-2013, roughly 20% of our idea submissions were in the connected realm.” Following the Breadcrumbs.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. The company’s startup accelerator program —henceforth to be known as Microsoft Accelerator—will continue hosting startups. Peggy Johnson.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

Matt Eichner, General Manager, Global Enterprise Search in a blog post says;” Technology creates tremendous opportunities to improve people’s lives. But to make the most of them, we need to focus—or we end up doing too much and not having the impact we strive for. Another service facing the axe is Google Talk Chatback.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. So, in the middle of 2013, my wife came to me saying -- Farhad, I want to support you, but what exactly am I supporting?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. So, in the middle of 2013, my wife came to me saying -- Farhad, I want to support you, but what exactly am I supporting?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

TechZulu caught up with the founder Mike Tringe and this is what he told us. CreatorUp was launched online in Beta in January of 2013 and our startup team is based in Los Angeles. Right now, we offer seven live video tutorial courses, and we hope to roll out 25 by the end of 2013. When was it launched and where?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. 04% full, you should start looking for a new container. Time to start connecting them with each other. Marty Zwilling.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2017

Craig Venter, who disclosed last month he’s being treated for prostate cancer , is moving into a new role as executive chairman at Human Longevity (HLI), the San Diego genomics startup he co-founded in 2013. Before joining GE Healthcare in 2013, Collins was CEO at Genvec, a group.

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