socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Read on for our top posts from 2017! ?? It means competition is more fierce because formidable new competitors can arrive overnight. At productboard we aim to bake best practices of product management straight into the interface, so you can improve the way you manage your products right out of the box. Read more… ??

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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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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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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

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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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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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2017

Some of my biggest worries are as follows: 1) More restrictive immigration laws will make it even harder for startups (as well as more established companies) to attract and retain the highly skilled workers that they need to be competitive. 3) The re-emphasizing of traditional fossil fuels will be accompanied by new policies.

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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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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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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Accelerate: speed is life in this new world.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

From its start in 2015, the number of registered users has “suddenly” climbed from 45 million in 2017 to a reported 300 million by the end of 2020. And, like the story of Discord and Twitter, it takes continual product and feature updates to stay ahead of the competition or overtake a sleepy competitor.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Accelerate: speed is life in this new world.

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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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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2017

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. Foster a culture of constant dialog with customers, experimentation, and multiple pivots required to stay competitive and responsive. Constant debates and re-analysis of data are the enemy in a fast-moving and competitive marketplace.

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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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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Ajay Royan told Bloomberg in 2017 that Mithril does not “charge excessive fees.” Mithril is struggling to compete against ferocious competition in the growth-stage equity market. When should you start a company?

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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

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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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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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

MARCH 24, 2017

More than ever, businesses need to take full advantage of automation, data, and analytics to run their business more productively and competitively. Don’t be one of the many small businesses I see that crawls along at a snail’s pace, and ultimately gets stepped on by the competition. Keep your eye on the data and the analytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2017

In the heat of scaling the business, it’s tempting to skip the cost and time of finding qualified job candidates, and enlist those close at hand, without paying them a competitive wage for the hard work and commitment you need. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/14/2017. You can’t win if you don’t try to push the limits.

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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 Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2017

We all face pressure in our lives, but there’s nothing like that of an entrepreneur facing customer crises and the competitive challenges of a new business. Thus, here is my own reframing of the authors generalized rules into some specifics for an entrepreneur or business leader: Reframe competitive threats to opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Yet the 2017 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. Can be a competitive advantage. Competition over salary, promotions, and position. This can cause feelings of unfairness, and initiate emotionally competitive efforts. Success is the best antidote to emotional vulnerability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

From my perspective, projecting financial returns is part of the homework every business person needs to do in sizing customer opportunity, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value, before expending their own resources in a highly risky venture. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/28/2017.

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