SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 20, 2017

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 -- Recurring Revenue Conference. Join local entrepreneurs, SaaS innovators, leading VCs, private equity/angel investors April 26, 2017 at the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com) presented by Sutton Capital Partners. SoCalTECH100off for a $100 discount on the ticket price.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

A serial entrepreneur with a background in retail, whose first company TryTheWorld was acquired by EarthBox in 2017, Dey was looking for her next project. Upon arrival, Yu realized she’d need a strong co-founder with experience in branding to help her navigate the massive market in the U.S. ”

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

The 2021 Polestar 2 is the first EV to come out of Polestar since it was recast as an electric performance brand in 2017. The physical stores, which will be in partnership with retailers such as Manhattan Motorcars, Galpin Motors and Price-Simms Automotive Group, are meant to supplement its digital strategy.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

The California legislature changed laws in 2017 to make it easier to build Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). Pricing starts at $190,000, but the average project cost across all sizes is around $230,000, Geary said, inclusive of permits and site work. All have kitchens and living space.

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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. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Irvine-based Viant, which develops advertising software, had a successful IPO on Wednesday, selling 10 million shares of its stock at $25 per share last night, above its initial estimated IPO price of $19.00 in 2018, and the acquisition of Adelphic in 2017. The company jumped all the way to $47.72 per share in its first day of trading.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 25, 2017

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 -- Launching Your Product in the New Reality of Retail (MAKE IT). From pricing and packaging to customer engagement and the order you approach each channel, everything matters.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2016

The Model 3 is Tesla's first reach down into the truly mass market, with a price of only $35,000 before incentives. Tesla said the new vehicle has a range of 215 miles per charge, goes from zero to 60 in under 6 seonds, and will be delivered in late 2017.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The accelerator said its 2017 and 2018 classes have so far raised more than $40M in follow on investment, with a combined valuation of more than $300M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2017

The software will initially launch on Amazon Web Services (AWS), with plans to support Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in the second half of 2017. Pricing on the new software was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

After a breakout year in 2017, the blockchain sector suffered a series of blows in 2018, from crashing cryptocurrency prices to increased regulatory scrutiny of crypto ventures and deepening skepticism about whether the technology was actually useful.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Snapchat reportedly is looking at an IPO towards the end of this year or in early 2017. Venice, California-based Snapchat has begun discussing an IPO with bankers, but has yet to select an investment bank to lead the effort, according to a report on Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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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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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. Prices for the service can vary by city and location, but as an example a service that it provides to grocery chain Coop in Milton Keynes is made for a flat fee of 99 pence. It has now made more than 2.5

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 16, 2017

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 -- Join us at the Pepperdine West Los Angeles Graduate Campus and learn invaluable information about what it means to be an entrepreneur. The talk delves into the 4 Ps of Marketing; Product, Price, Promotion, and Place as well as supporting content. Breakfast provided.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2018

But since then its stock price has fallen significantly, dropping below $1 per share multiple times in the past two years, which nearly got the listing booted from the Nasdaq exchange. billion in sales in 2017—said Thursday it had had agreed to buy Senomyx for $1.50 Through a U.S. per share, or.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Michael Jones: Earny, a bot that tracks purchases, files and redeems price protection/adjustment claims automatically for customers. Just a few weeks after Earny launched, Amazon ended their price adjustment policy. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

By comparison, Relativity’s neighbors at Cape Canaveral are Blue Origin (which Jeff Bezos has been financing by reportedly selling $1 billion in shares of Amazon stock since 2017 ); SpaceX (which has raised roughly $2.5 Relativity prices its dedicated missions at $10 million, and $11,000 per kilogram to achieve Sun-synchronous orbit.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

The eight-people team is led by Cheng Lyu, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who goes by Jesse and helped Baidu build up its smart speaker unit from scratch after the Chinese search giant acquired his voice startup Raven in 2017. “A lot of studios are asking how much we price our engine at, but we are targeting the consumer market.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

While VR startups raised plenty of cash in 2016 and 2017, slow headset sales have caused startups to focus on building for a virtual future that might take a couple more years to reach. Buy your early bird tickets today for just $99 and you’ll save $100 before prices go up. Maureen Fan [ Baobab Studios ] .

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be. We cut price and doubled down on an aggressive campaign to call back people who had been on the fence given the economic climate of prices dropping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. Investors are showing an increased appetite for new stocks, with a good percentage of deals pricing above the marketed share price range. The median deal size is back over $100 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

One question I often hear from solo entrepreneurs, and she addresses directly, is “How do I set the right price for my services?” The simple answer is to balance supply and demand, but here are some specific considerations that she and I both proclaim as key factors: Use project pricing rather than hourly rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The alternatives range from giving the product away for free (revenue from ads), to pricing based on costs, to charging what the market will bear (premium pricing). Price based on product costs plus margin. Price based on average value to customer. Price with recurring low subscription payments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2017

No customers, including yourself, are willing to tolerate multiple bad experiences, just to get the lowest price. For your business to prosper, don’t associate good service only with high-price products. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/01/2017. Being unreasonably demanding of others.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 9, 2017

Cofounders of Cousins Maine Lobster Sabin Lomac and Jim Tselikis wanted to share their Maine tradition of delicious cuisines to the masses for an affordable price. This year MSCW is taking place June 19th-23rd 2017. “Sometimes people can dissuade you from being creative [or] dissuade you from taking risks.

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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. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 23, 2018

Purchase your Early Bird tickets here for just $99 and you’ll save $100 before prices go up! The one-day event combines onstage conversations about augmented and virtual reality with in-person demos and networking. Students get a special rate of just $45 when they book here.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017. Plenty of workers have had enough: In the final quarter of 2017, according to real estate company Redfin , more residents left San Francisco than any other major U.S. cities in the final quarter of 2017, with 10.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In essence, as a contractor, you are a consultant who is competing regularly for new work, and you constantly have to differentiate your offering from other candidates, including price. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/12/2017. That’s the definition of success in any business or career.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

The reality is that successful businesses these days require an equally elegant business model, with the right marketing, delivery channel, price, and target customers, to get real traction. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The big attraction isn’t necessarily price either. 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. Traffic congestion is prompting people to turn to two wheels as well, giving Bounce and others a boost.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Jounce Therapeutics has gone ahead of its projections and raised roughly $102 million in an IPO, continuing an early, yet successful trend for biotechs trying to go public in 2017. Jounce also priced above the $13 to $15 per share range it had set. It will start trading on the Nasdaq this morning under the symbol “JNCE.”

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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. Project unit-volume and price levels. Quantify overhead and growth costs.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

. “Marshmallow first began by providing car insurance cover for UK-based expats, a group who had historically been quoted insurance prices that were 51% higher than the market average. ” Sharper Startup Focuses Warrant Investment. Data, insurance premiums, and accurate risk assessments don't typically get the pulses racing. .

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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. After Pacific Sunwear, my career covered two new ends of the retail spectrum; off price at Ross and women’s luxury at St. John Knits.

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