TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2022

Since the launch of Pokémon Go in 2016, players have been coordinating meetups, in-game raids and battles on platforms like Reddit and Discord. Of course, GPS shows you where you are and what’s around you, but VPS adds another layer, showing you user-generated experiences designed to enhance your real-world experience.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company’s mobile application lets users take a photo of any bill and then its artificial intelligence-powered “bill-understanding technology” makes sure it gets paid (after a user has provided payment details, of course). The financing brings the previously under-the-radar company’s total raised to $65 million since its 2016 inception.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather. WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

For CES gaming in 2016, VR devices were at the front and center even more prominently than before – but a few other fantastic upcoming products also made a splash. The post CES 2016 Gaming: What You Missed and Shouldn’t Have appeared first on TechZulu. The Final Oculus Rift Heading for Shelves.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

eHarmony said the new Spanish site will be launched into several other countries, including Mexico and Spain, over the course of 2016. According to eHarmony, its new web site is built to serve both Spanish speaking singles in the U.S., as well as support its globalization strategy with an expansion to Latin America and beyond.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 22, 2016

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 -- The Roadmap to Commercialization: Confirming Your Product. This workshop series will help you determine and verify the right course for your start-up, raise your odds of being funded, and build a scalable, sustainable company. Tritech SBDC. Can a bad value proposition kill your business?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 18, 2016

Wednesday, August 24, 2016 -- The Roadmap to Commercialization: From Market Entry Through Exit Strategy. This workshop series will help you determine and verify the right course for your start-up, raise your odds of being funded, and build a scalable, sustainable company. Tritech SBDC. Can a bad value proposition kill your business?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 16, 2016

Wednesday, June 22, 2016 -- The Roadmap to Commercialization: Building Your Customer Base Through Discovery and Validation. This workshop series will help you determine and verify the right course for your start-up, raise your odds of being funded, and build a scalable, sustainable company. Tritech SBDC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors was legalized via the SEC way back in 2016, and its impact is still not fully understood. Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 28, 2016

Then register for the FundingPost Investor RoundTable on February 4th, 2016 at 2:00pm. Interested in meeting early-stage accredited investors in Los Angeles? FundingPost has hosted 300+ sold-out venture events in 23 cities over the past 14 years. There will be plenty of time for networking with the Investor panelists!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2016

May 21st 2016. You may have much book learning in school to do and of course you’ll learn about friendship, love and responsibility but the person you’ll one day become when your own children stand at the bimah is already — you. I told you — jokingly of course — that we should go and rough him up. L’dor Vador Jacob.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Deepak’s meditation guide will be available Fall 2016 for both mobile and desktop VR systems. They’re scared about side effects and discomfort, and are sometimes depressed, and that can interfere with their ability to successfully follow a course of therapy.”.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Beyond these, however, there are easy tie-ins within a number of key categories of Fifth Wall Anchors [sic] that regularly ship or receive freight—developers, of course, but also retail, office, homebuilding anchors.” The two men began planning the business in 2016 and only launched the service in the beginning of this year.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2018

Online courses like Coursera and Kahn Academy have existed for years to guide audiences through free, velvet-voiced tutorials on topics from mathematics to English history. Internet users rose seven percent that year, down versus the 12 percent rise seen in 2016. hours in 2016. Online Education Is Up. adults spend 5.9

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

The following year, she stepped down as CEO, and by 2016, her company filed for bankruptcy and was purchased by Boohoo. And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If I mean, there’s a number of things that went wrong throughout the course of his tenure that were never brought up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors was only legalized via the SEC in 2016, so its impact is still in the early stages. Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. Donation good-cause model.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Online travel sales to grow by 200% by 2016. Co-founded in the Netherlands in 2013 by brothers Marijn and Willem Maas, Withlocals is open for travel and dining experiences in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia where online travel sales are expected to grow nearly 200% by 2016 according to emarketer.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Over the course of the year our active portfolio companies received awards or recognition on over 35 separate occasions. In summary, it really has been an amazing year and we look forward to supporting additional compelling software companies in 2016. What are the technologies or things you think people out to watch in 2016?

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

I was cool with this and we agreed that I would handle the site build out, site management, all customer facing responsibilities, all sales, marketing and operational aspects of the business except for our accounting of course. We would relaunch the company in 2016 as the new entity and get all our ducks in a row.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. Of course unsolicited spam has very low open rates and is filtered by the major providers. That number is projected to GROW to 70 billion by 2016 (Source: BIA Kelsey). 94% of all online adults use email.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

And mid-course corrections are not bad things. To quote a line from a favorite movie of mine � Excalibur � "Looking at the future is like looking at the cookie; you don't know really what it is like until you take a bite and then, of course, it's too late.". What are the technologies or things you think people ought to watch in 2016?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Of course not every VC has the fund size or the fee size to build services at this scale yet many provide extremely well-regarded programs that are valuable. The reason that marketing resonated so much for us as a 2016 priority is: Portfolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2016

Of course, you have to trust a personal assistant not to share user context and personal data with the wrong people. According to Gartner , less than 40 percent of American consumers today use the free personal assistant services on their smartphones on a regular basis, and the best projections are that this could double by the end of 2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Keeping it simple is the best course. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 09/20/2016. More meetings in your conference room won’t get to the truth as well as simply talking to people who interact with customers directly. Never be too busy to talk to real customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

Course corrections, or pivots, are normal for new ventures, so expect them and don’t make excuses. Of course, a move on price also puts them in the realm of new competitors, including e-commerce vendors and big-box stores. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/15/2016. Are you still hesitating?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2016

Of course, this can be positive if you really need the help and experience in making key decisions. Of course, bootstrapping does imply living within your means, and it may require you to postpone your startup efforts while you build up an investment fund of your own. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 06/01/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Of course, business networking is just the beginning of your journey into entrepreneurship, In his book, Scaramucci offers much more – a firsthand, introspective, and candid account of his own failures, successes, and insights that led him to business and financial success. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 11/05/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Of course no one has any idea what the next big thing will be, but more often than not innovation comes from entrepreneurs. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 12/20/2016. In terms of job creation, innovation, and productivity, entrepreneurs drive growth. They are becoming the new early adopters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

But, of course, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/29/2016. Based on some good estimates of how many new ventures have been started in the last five years, the statistical odds of any individual startup making it to this level are less than one in a million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Of course, every business has unique requirements, so there is no candidate that fits all businesses, but in my experience there are a basic set of expectations which define the role: Attract, incent, and manage great people. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/27/2016. So what are the key attributes of the CEO you need?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Of course, there are many more work expectations that haven’t changed, but the 80-20 rule still applies. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 11/10/2016. That means starting the project, keeping people engaged, and bringing it to a positive completion. I call that the work-work balance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Of course, with social media marketing, trial and error is not the only way to fail. You can fail by not being there at all (see the United Breaks Guitars story ), or making a big mistake (see The 12 Worst Social-Media Fails of 2016 ). The very nature of influence at this level mans that values and vision must be in tune.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. Not just what the product needed to look like, but how to sell it, and to make sure that the people we sold it to were really successful using it, and stayed with us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Of course, we all need friend relationships in our private lives, and some of these may evolve from or lead to business relationships. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 01/29/2016. In the world of entrepreneurs and startups, professional relationships are critical. You can’t start a business with friends alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Of course, an even more important driver of passion than success is happiness and satisfaction with the lifestyle. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 01/01/2016. Labor Statistics data suggests that half of the ones actually started are gone in five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Of course, customers love free, but investors hate it. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/03/2016. They expect to hear about founders and team member’s prior experience in building a startup, and knowledge in the relevant solution domain. Not highlighting people is as deadly as not highlighting the solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2016

Startups don’t come with formal training courses. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 07/18/2016. Businesses require people relationships, to find the right team, investors, contract vendors, and attract customers. As an introvert and a techy, I know well the challenges of building relationships in today’s competitive world.

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