Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio. Through inspirational content, online classes, and products, Brit + Co enables their audience of over 125 million to use creativity to shape their best lives.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

Polestar has started production of its all-electric Polestar 2 vehicle at a plant in China amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended the automotive industry and triggered a wave of factory closures throughout the world. Most automakers have suspended production in Europe and North America.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Have you ever noticed that some of your business owner friends get all the bad customers, and yours all seem fairly reasonable? I’m always amazed that, in my role as a business advisor, bad customers somehow seem to gang up on certain businesses. For your business to prosper, don’t associate good service only with high-price products.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2019

Los Angeles-based TeleSign , which develops customer identification products, including two factor authentication and other related products, has named co-founder Ryan Disraeli as its CEO, the company said on Thursday. TeleSign was acquired by BICS in 2017, and now has more than 300 employees. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 27, 2017

Here are five trends startups are considering for their operations in 2017. Meanwhile, the same cyber threat affects you if you are a startup offering products and services via a mobile app. With the improvements in display resolution, marketers have the opportunity to create more compelling content for customers.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

in total funding, and came out of YCombinator in 2017. According to RepairSmith, it will incorporate CarDash's technology to enhance its product offering, and will services all of CarDash's customers from RepairSmith.com. CarDash had raised $5.3M RepairSmith is led by CEO Joel Milne, and is backed by Daimler AG.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. They expect you to be there, to know their history as a customer, and to treat them with priority and respect.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The concept is similar to Toyota’s e-Palette vehicle, which can theoretically be customized to serve as a retail shop, restaurant or shuttle for people. Canoo started as Evelozcity in 2017 by two former Faraday Future executives Stefan Krause and Ulrich Kranz. ”

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2019

According to Inseego, its new MiFi 8000 Mobile Hotspot will roll out beginning June 14th to Sprint customers, to provide gigabit-speed performance and enterprise security features. Inseego said the new device supports Gigabit LTE speeds, which it says "vasty outperforms" its earlier 4G devices. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. What is Retina Go?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. by 15 million users since 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. Once someone is engaged with your product, you’ll want to get them engaged with your brand.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

On Tuesday, Haptik announced it has acqui-hired Convrg, a Los Angeles-based startup that develops chatbots, to serve customers in North America. Founded in 2017, Convrg has made a name for itself by developing several popular chatbots and voice products. 60% of all software is bought in the U.S.,

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Webroot said it will incorporate CyberFlow's technology into its products, initially in custom integration and evaluaation, with full availability and further product integrations expected in 2017. Cyberflow's software was used for identifying network anomalies in IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. 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. Multiple startups credit the event for boosting their business and activity, that includes Mathew Prince , CEO of Cloudfare who reports “We struggled like crazy to get our first hundred customers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2017

According to ConsumerTrack, it has moved into a new office wich has room for over 100 employees, and which also includes a custom gym and video studio to expand its production facilities. ConsumerTrack says its customer include such companies Fidelity, Transunion, Chase Bank, and many other financial institutions.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2017

Calabasas-based Ixia , which develops network testing hardware and software, has rolled out a new product specifically aimed at capturing data from public cloud installations. The company said the new product enables customers to capture and filter data in the public cloud, in a way that scales with a user's cloud installation.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 20, 2017

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 -- Purpose-driven manufacturing: backing up your brand with ethical and sustainable practices (MAKE IT Monthly event). Today’s consumer increasingly seeks products that they feel good about. Whether you are a purpose-driven brand or just a company with a conscience, live up to your brand promise.

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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 The company plans to take its new capital and “go deep into the product side.”.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Musk mentioned on Twitter the desire to produce a pickup truck way back in April 2017, before the first Model 3 sedans had been handed over to customers and the CEO had entered production hell. In December, Musk resurrected the idea saying that Tesla might have a prototype to unveil in 2019.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 30, 2017

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 -- Roadmap to Commercialization. How well do you really know your target customer? Santa Ana District SBDC. Why is the right business model critical to your venture start-up's success? Can a bad value proposition kill your business? In this workshop, you will learn how to. See [link] (more)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

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? Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2017

These people don’t seem to realize that they are hurting themselves, as well as other people’s productivity, and jeopardize the future of the company they are working for. No business can afford that huge cost in emotional capital, as well as the productivity loss! Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 10/26/2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Leaders who are able to optimize these find multipliers of 20 percent up to nine times the average productivity. Organizational silos, limited spans of control, and too many layers of management can dramatically reduce the productivity of even your best people. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/09/2017.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2018

Santa Monica-based sales and marketing customer relationship management (CRM) tools developer Nimble is further integrating its tools with partner Microsoft, and its Office 365 software, as well as Google's G Suite, with a new business dashboarding tool. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 6, 2017

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 -- Funding your Innovation. This course is about selling your innovation to investors, grant proposal reviewers, potential strategic partners, and to your intended customers. Are your target customers not buying-in? Do you wonder why less qualified products are more successful in the market than yours?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 21, 2019

As shown in the accompanying graph, below a certain price, the price/demand dynamics are consistent with conventional products – higher prices result in a lower demand. Veblen products are typically luxury goods, such as super-cars, which routinely sellout before production is begun, despite (or due to…) prices in excess of $2 million.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2016

Redlands-based GIS and mapping software developer Esri has launched a new product, which takes aim at enterprise users of Google Earth. According to Esri, its new ArcGIS Earth software is a free, desktop based interactive globe which allows users to visualize, explore, and understand spatial data, letting users work with 3D and 2D map data.

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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. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Analytics will soon drive nearly all business decisions for any company that wants to remain relevant to its customers. Crowdsource: putting your audience to work beyond customers.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Canoo is locking in final contracts with its vendors and is going to be in production with prototypes before the end of the year. Canoo began life as EVelozcity back in 2017. It’s a quick ramp for a company that only two years ago was struggling to extricate itself from the morass that was Faraday Future.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

The product is an app, available for them. In the product world, you build a product, craft a marketing strategy, and acquire a user or customer. In January of 2017, sitting in a back of a Lyft at CES in Vegas, our driver was actually listening to a Latin track playlist his friend from home had sent him.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Based out of Los Angeles, Starship initially made its name, back in 2017, running pilots with delivery companies in the U.S. Starship’s delivery robots are already proving their worth, and we are glad to support the company so that they can continue to develop their technology and scale-up their production.”.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

The product is an app, available for them. In the product world, you build a product, craft a marketing strategy, and acquire a user or customer. In January of 2017, sitting in a back of a Lyft at CES in Vegas, our driver was actually listening to a Latin track playlist his friend from home had sent him.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. by 15 million users since 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. Once someone is engaged with your product, you’ll want to get them engaged with your brand.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

The company counts major clients like TripAdvisor, Lululemon, HD Supply, Express Scripts and Spirit Airlines, among its roster of customers and will use the funding led by Battery to further expand its sales and marketing and product development efforts. “We were impressed with AuditBoard’s product and its customer traction.

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