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

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Now following a $62 million round of funding led by Battery Ventures last month, the company is worth roughly $800 million, according to people with knowledge of the investment, and is on its way to becoming Los Angeles’ next billion-dollar business. These kinds of technologies, unlike AI, don’t automate away workers.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. Are we right in all of our assumptions and diligence? Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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Reviewing financial & operational performance. Planning and dealing with extra-ordinary events: M&A, fund raising, crises. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale.

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Pledgeling's James Citron: Every Business Should Be A Social Enterprise

socalTECH

Citron previously founded and sold Mogreet, a developer of mobile marketing software, among other ventures. In October of 2014, my wife and I were about to have our first child, and I am thinking to myself, I am going to take a month off and be a great dad. Did you get funding this time around for the new company?

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Southern California Sees $1.9 Billion In Q1 Deals, Biggest Since Dot Com Boom

socalTECH

More than half of this quarter''s investment due to a single, nearly $1 billion investment in Hawthorne-based SpaceX. Other large funding deals in the quarter included $186M invested in Lynda , $76.28M invested in San Diego''s aTyr Pharma , and $50.0M in investments, and Orange County saw $172.81M in funding. Nationally, $13.42

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Simplifying Startup Investments: Ryan Feit (CEO) of SeedInvest

Tech Zulu Event

But you can’t secure the funding needed to scale. . 2013 was a huge year for startup investing to say the least, and with how things have been shaping up in Q1 of 2014, things are going to get a whole lot crazier. Finding a better way for entrepreneurs to raise funds. Introducing SeedInvest.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode. BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions.

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