TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

” Maven was designed to bring and expand several of GM’s existing test programs under one brand. For instance, the company launched in 2017 Maven Reserve in Los Angeles and San Francisco to allow customers to rent its GM-branded vehicles for a month at a time. But Maven never quite settled on one business model.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

Six years ago, the company had proved that its reactor design could sustain plasma indefinitely — meaning that once the switch is flipped on a reaction, that fusion reaction can continue indefinitely. The new machine was first fired up in the summer of 2017. It’s the opposite of a [Tokamak].

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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. The company, along with its partners at PreistmanGoode also released the design for its passenger Hyperloop capsule at the London Design Festival.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Founder Alix Peabody designed a line of female-focused canned rosé. Y Combinator, the popular accelerator program and investment firm announced this week that it has promoted longtime partner Geoff Ralston to president. Modsy scores $37M to virtually design your home. It closed Friday down 3 percent. Canva gets $70M at a $2.5B

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

” Sharper Startup Focuses Warrant Investment. “RFP and response management software combined with PreSales is a strategic area for investment at the moment for a lot of VC’s and PE companies, so it feels like Avnio is in the right place at the right time.”. However, investors have seen fit to pump $31.2

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The world’s top tech companies have heavily invested in AR/VR and are persistent in broadcasting the technologies’ potential to blur the lines of how consumers interact with the digital world. Beyond the tech titans, it’s the small startups that are dialing into what’s missing in the ecosystem right now.

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The education sector tends to have limited resources dedicated to IT investments which can make it challenging for schools to integrate the network technologies and keep up with the latest advancements. Designing a network setup with a flexible capacity allows schools to easily scale up their network infrastructure whenever the need arises.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 29, 2018

Robbie Cabral, CEO and founder of Benjilock , the first biometric and rechargeable smart lock, is a veteran to Eureka Park and recipient of the 2017 CES Innovation Award. Invest in your company’s future by joining CTA. Founders can’t do it alone, they need support systems and know they aren’t ones dealing with daily struggles.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. Seriously, this happens.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017. There are so many different routes a person can take to enter the industry, such as design, buying, production, marketing, eCommerce and styling to name a few.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The company began life as Evelozcity in late 2017 after ex-BMW executives Stefan Krause and Ulrich Kranz left Faraday Future amid an internal power struggle. Samsung appears to be yet another company stepping back from a pursuit of full autonomy and refocusing efforts and investments towards advanced driver assistance technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

That’s why investors talk about investing in the jockey, not the horse. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication of design, according to many studies. Steve Jobs was a master of inspiration from sophisticated designs, from the iPod to iPhone and packaging. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/20/2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Shape your business by design, not by default. Focus on your passion and your vision of what you want to accomplish, and make that come alive in the design and delivery of everything you do. To check your return on marketing investment, you need to define metrics and a formal process to evaluate progress and cost tradeoffs.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

To keep pace, carriers are making strategic infrastructure investments to expand and improve coverage. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹. Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Advantages for your business include a stable revenue stream, customer retention, and increasing customer investment over time. It is a very competitive approach, but requires design and development effort for value at every level. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/17/2017.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

All this is by design, per the vision of Atom Factory founder Troy Carter. ” Wraps Ryoo, “A lot of our wider efforts in diversity, philanthropy, and minority entrepreneurship haven’t been fully released yet; we’re excited for 2017.” Participating companies also receive a $50,000 investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. It’s amazing to see the success of LA under Mayor Garcetti and that’s why I urge you to turn out to reelect him tomorrow — March 7, 2017 - every single vote matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. Last year 300,000+ American angels invested an estimated $25 billion in more than 70,000 startup deals. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

Back in 2017, the New York Times opinion section was graced with an article entitled: Jerks and the Start-Ups They Ruin. “Some startups have seen demand skyrocket, so they’ve had to quickly scale, attract investment, and respond to client demand. Saying No To Startup Bros.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When should a VC invest? It’s the only way forward in capitalism, and it’s worth every investment you can make. The late-stage investment firm has been a slow-burning mess for the past several months, angering current and former employees, limited partners, and, crucially, [Peter] Thiel himself, sources say. All appears well.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2019

In 1952, banks refused to loan Ruth the money needed to invest in a windup, music-box piano that she was convinced would be a hit. Seeing an opportunity, Ruth designed and sold a similar doll, which she differentiated by creating a huge wardrobe of clothing and accessories. Mattel’s 2017 sales were $1.6 million 2018 dollars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

According to the 2017 Kauffman Startup Activity Index , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity reached 86 percent, more than 12 percentage points higher than in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. The average amount raised also increased to $175 million.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2015

By analyzing communication between the wealth manager and the customer, a company could build an individual personality index to determine if that person is a risk-taker or more cautious in their investment approach. The post Enterprise Meet IBM’s New Hybrid Cloud, Bluemix Local appeared first on TechZulu.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications.

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