article thumbnail

Walt Disney Announces 2021 Accelerator Companies

socalTECH

Burbank-based The Walt Disney Company has announced the participants in this year's startup accelerator program at the company. According to the company, it has selected eight companies for the 2021 Disney Accelerator Program, including companies in the areas of messaging, the frontiers of technology, e-commerce, data, and personalization.

Company 113
article thumbnail

Fisker Announces New Sub-$40,000 SUV

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based electric car startup Fisker announced a brand new vehicle today, a sub-$40,000 SUV, promising that it will start shipping to customers in the second half of 2021. That company, Fisker Automotive, went through $1.4 billion in investor and government money before going bankrupt.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

You can sign up here. Now, Microsoft-owned GitHub is gearing up to remove these references to slavery by naming primary code repositories “main” instead of “master.” In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . Let’s start with Prop 22.

Capital 316
article thumbnail

How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

On Lafayette Street in SoHo, young, fashionable women lined up around the block to enter a minimalist, millennial oasis, the most perfect Instagram feed brought to life. allocate 98% of their funding to startups helmed by men. It’s no wonder, then, how we’ve ended up with the paradox of the “girlboss.” .

Startup 280
article thumbnail

8 Organizational Cultures Boost Output And Cut Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. People who get paid by results have every incentive to think up smarter ways of getting work done. Freelancers now make up 36% of U.S. Measuring results in itself is not new.