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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Sometimes the problem cause is that startups forget the technical standards and quality processes that every Internet rollout must follow to reduce the risk.

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5 Tech Trends Startups Are Adopting In 2017

Tech.Co

It’s not about checking off as many technology trends, it is about finding useful and valuable trends that align with your goals and strategy for the rest of the year. Here are five trends startups are considering for their operations in 2017. Blockchain Technology. Sure, they are hot topics in tech hubs these days.

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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

TechCrunch LA

Since its 2017 inception, SpotOn has been focused on providing software and payments technology to SMBs with an emphasis on restaurants and retail businesses. SpotOn will now have over 500 employees on its product and technology team, according to co-founder and co-CEO Zach Hyman.

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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven

TechCrunch LA

Maven had paused service due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. Maven had already suspended its consumer car-sharing and a peer-to-peer service due to COVID-19.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? If you buy that Amazon is a tech startup then essentially you’ve already answered the question. We’ve been delighted with 8VC as a co-investor.

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

TechCrunch LA

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. It was Iconiq that put a whopping $80 million into ServiceTitan just last year — and while the 2017 cash infusion may have been larger, the company’s valuation has continued to rise.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it.

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