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

TechCrunch LA

The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. Battery isn’t the only marquee investor to find value in ServiceTitan’s business developing software managing day labor. These kinds of technologies, unlike AI, don’t automate away workers.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

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. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. I met with Seed San Diego partners Taner Halicioglu and Eric Gasser, who also reviewed the companies and provided their feedback.

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

Xconomy

To boost the initiative, which aims to speed the pace of cancer research, FDA said it would consolidate its cancer review divisions under the Oncology Center of Excellence. But as Xconomy reported, details about the reorganization were scant, leaving open questions whether drug regulation actually needs to move faster.

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Is Airspace the New Panama Canal?

Tech Zulu Event

Amazon proposed an idea in October, 2014 called Prime Air that would ship packages from one of their many Gargantuan warehouses directly to consumers in major cities. While the company received little publicity, it succeeded in launching a pilot program in Germany during the fall of 2014. Amazon’s Big Idea.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

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