socalTECH

JULY 24, 2017

AutoMobility LA , the high tech-, connected-car focused event which is part of the LA Auto Show, said it is running a startup competition which will over up prizes worth over $200,000 at its 2017 Top Ten Automotive Startups Competition. The deadline for the competition is August 11th.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma The first competition in the CAR-T field will be in adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma. If you’re not ASH-saturated by now, stay tuned: We’ll have more hematology coverage later this week. Note: Ben Fidler co-authored this report.]

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The XPRIZE Foundation , the group which has been organizing prize-based competitions to help advance critical areas of technology to benefit mankind, announced on Thursday that it has 32 teams from 22 countries who are competing for its $7M Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2020

The company was founded in 2017, but only raised its Series A in December of 2019, when it raised $6M in funding. The company originally raised funding as part of a "Quick Pitch" competition with the San Diego Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 8, 2017

Saturday, June 10, 2017 -- General Assembly Career Lab. Professionals at all experience levels can explore new paths to success in the competitive fields of web development, data, user experience design, and digital marketing. Start or advance your career in today’s top tech fields at General Assembly LA's Career Lab.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

Revenue and competitive position followed. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 04/12/2017. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Speed is a key feature in every customer experience.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 20, 2021

Stella Wu, who formerly worked as a growth product manager at Wish, got firsthand experience of the pain points related to the process when she bought her own house in 2017. “I Eano, she said, offers competitive and transparent pricing so that homeowners aren’t surprised as a remodeling project goes on.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2016

According to ViaSat, the award from the United States Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) comes as a non-competitive, fixed-price contract, and will provide broadband internet to a a fleet of VC-25s, C-17s, C-32s, C-37s, C-40s and the complete range of VIP and special air mission aircraft.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

We continue to see strong subscriber response across the rest of the Webpass portfolio, including successful launches in Denver and Seattle in 2017.” “We’ll work with customers and partners to minimize disruption, and there will be no immediate impacts to their Webpass service,” according to the statement. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

“I know that our repeat purchase rate is lower than the industry average now, but …” “I know that our margins are lower than VCs like to see, but …” “I know our revenue decelerated in the last 2 quarters of 2017, but …” Remember that fund raising is a sales process.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

In January 2017, HTT announced that the company was opening a research facility in Tououse, France to work on prototyping. Subsequently, Hyperloop One began testing their full scale system in May 2017 and continued tests throughout the year. Arrivo is focused on ways to efficiency, cost-effectiveness and public utility.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc.

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StartUp Beat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

2017 has already witnessed a load of successful and exciting conferences, including World Domination Summit, Startup+Fest and CEO Space. It’s a competition where entrepreneurs take the stage and proceed to pitch their startup ideas and their visions for the future. But the year is still not over, and the best is yet to come.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Techstars has continued to expand its global footprint with 48 accelerator programs around the world and the first company from our portfolio (Sendgrid) to IPO in late 2017 and then be acquired by Twilio in 2018. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. In 2017, it was in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was always sort of shocking to people, even on a national level, when they would hear [that Rapid City was hosting ICPC 2017],” Jensen said. “And

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy launched in 2017 and quickly helped companies like Atlassian, Duolingo, and Salesforce to scale hundreds of monthly in-person meetups and events. They’ve had a huge head-start on the competition and are well-positioned to maintain leadership as we adjust to building community in this new COVID era. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Given the competition coming into the market, it’s no wonder that Wrench is raising additional capital to expand its footprint into new markets. Wrench raised $4 million in its first round of financing, which TechCrunch covered back in 2017. It’s a model that’s attracted some competitors with big backing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

by 15 million users since 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. That won’t build any competitive advantage. Where did your friends go? While Pinterest and Tumbler have seen activity increases approaching 100%, The Verge reports that Facebook usage has declined in the U.S. Maybe they just don’t care.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

“We want to inspire, but we also want to be realistic and show beauty in real life,” Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss said in a 2017 interview with Inc, just as the brand had reached what Weiss herself described as “cult status.” billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation. That means regularly scanning LinkedIn and job sites for roles and opportunities that you may quality for, and honing your skills and connections to be sure you are competitive.

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Tech.Co

JULY 19, 2017

One notable fact about the competition: While it’s free to enter, fellows should have a plan in place to co-finance their participation through either a fellowship or partner funding. You can apply to the 2017 competition through this link , and you can find a Q&A with additional information over here.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Being a part of the SOTY alumni lasts well beyond the pitch competition. One of our advisors heard about the Startup of the Year competition and thought we should consider pitching. The Startup of the Year competition has always recognized that great ideas and talent live everywhere – not just the coasts. APPLY HERE.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2023

Thanks to COVID-19 and the policies of previous US administrations, immigration to the US sharply declined from 2017 to 2022. If you expect your business to stay competitive and succeed in this new world, you will start today looking for more ways to empower your team and lead the way. These are job openings for many new people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Design your invisible competitive advantage. Remember that every specific competitive advantage is temporary – every product or service becomes a commodity over time. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 02/04/2017. What has your business done lately to excite your existing customers and keep them loyal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Still, it is recommended that you add the familiar ©Copyright 2017 symbol at the beginning or end of each media and document segment. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The pedigreed studio has in recent times faced more internal competition from its siblings inside Tencent, particularly the Lightspeed Quantum studio, which is behind the successful mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). WeChat launched its long-awaited paywall for articles published on its platform .

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick. If we took in other people, we'd have to go after more deals, and bigger deals, and there's plenty of competition in that part of the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Satisfied but unenthusiastic customers who can be easily wooed by the competition. The inverse case is that you can lose you competitive lead very quickly by focusing on the wrong things. Marty Zwilling Published by Xerox Small Business Solutions on 07/31/2017. Detractors. Have you checked your customers’ experience lately?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Never under-estimate or ignore the competition. If you really believe that you have no competition, then you haven’t looked, or there is no market for your solution. You need to know and use the competition as your benchmark, not to degrade them, but to highlight your competitive advantages to customers and investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Focus simply means launching your first and most memorable initiative where you see a unique skill and experience fit, your best competitive positioning with the least risk, and the greatest potential return. Realistically characterize the competition. Claiming you have no competition also implies lack of focus on competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

by 15 million users since 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. That won’t build any competitive advantage. Where did your friends go? While Pinterest and Tumbler have seen activity increases approaching 100%, The Verge reports that Facebook usage has declined in the U.S. Maybe they just don’t care.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Every opportunity is global, but so is the competition. Today the market and competitive landscape are changing so fast that the best lever to growth is the ability to anticipate and adapt to change, to beat competitors and excite customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/29/2017.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Tim O'Neal: Kazhm was founded in 2017. The competitive advantages of doing this are very exciting, and we get a powerful response from both audiences. Explain what Kazuhm does? We had an idea to recapture what we saw was a huge pool of unlimited corporate resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/22/2017.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica. At the same time, there's not that intensity of competition for engineers as in Silicon Valley. They all recognize that word of mouth is the most potent influencer for consumers. Who is providing the funding and backing for the company?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What's wonderful about this new fund, is we literally started in April of 2017. There's also toughter competition, because you're competing with the big boys. We're in the process of raising funds with institutional investors as well. We expect in 2018, we will have as much as 150 million Euros, or around $180M US.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

For more complex or creative projects, where required hours to complete the work are less predictable, your experience, work ethic, and productivity are competitive advantages. Know your competitive value. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 07/26/2017. Charging by the hour only makes sense for commodity work.

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