TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The CEO of the high-performance Italian motorcycle manufacturer offered that point of optimism, as her Modena based EV company remains closed by government decree. The company — that has has a California office and U.S. The venture is also one of the few e-motorcycle companies drawing engineering tips from competition.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Santa Monica-based Super League Gaming , which operates its own e-sports competition site and community, is headed for the public markets, hoping to raise as much as $31.36M for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 20, 2018

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 -- Market Research: The Fuel For Marketing Strategies. We dive into the crucial process of gathering and analyzing information about markets, industries, and products in their competitive spaces. American Marketing Association (AMA). See [link] (more)

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Fortunately, for those headed to SXSW, Startup Night SXSW 2018 , presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo, will be filled with investors from a multitude of industries who are looking to discover and fund startups building the latest solutions and tech innovations. Lisha Bell, Deal Flow Lead for Pipeline Angels.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Parts of this story might sound familiar to readers familiar with Good Eggs — when the startup raised its most recent, $50 million funding round in 2018, CEO Bentley Hall also mentioned plans for geographic expansion. Van Arsdale is joining the company’s board of directors. Image Credits: Good Eggs. Glade Brook’s J.P.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. Runway AI user interface.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. She stepped down from that company in 2020.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Being one small company amongst the sea of thousands of startups vying for customers, capital, and talent, the way to get noticed above the crowd, connect with that next big partner, and raise some capital is to throw your hat in the ring to compete at Startup of the Year. A Strong Alumni Network. It’s time to get noticed! APPLY HERE.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. Watch our video series at SXSW 2018 with The Case Foundation.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Helen Torley, who was highlighted in 2016 as the only female CEO of a public life sciences company in San Diego , was recognized last week for her operational excellence at Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HALO ). The regional competition is part of the global. The 16 finalists are in the above photo.)

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. I often answer the same way … * “First, yes, nearly every corner of our market is over-valued. By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

We spoke with founder and CEO Luke Fox to learn more about the company, and its technology. How did the company start? Luke Fox: It has been deployed in a pilot program for 12 months, all during 2018, in a wide variety of different environments around the world. What were doing in 2019, is scaling the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

You can fail by not being there at all (see the United Breaks Guitars story ), or making a big mistake (see The Biggest Social-Media Fails of 2018 ). See some recent examples in the The 10 Best Social Media Campaigns of 2018. More positively, social media also brings many more ways to succeed. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies … our position is that we hire someone in spite of an MBA, not because of one.” I was surprised to learn that nearly one fourth (24%) of the 157 unicorns (private companies with a valuation > $1B) have at least one MBA founder.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Members hire Associations, Members fire Associations is what the new mantra will be for Association Executives in 2018. Cyber & nuclear threats, disruptive innovation, and increasing competition for market share will continue to reshape how members view their memberships. Will not be hired by your prospective members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2018

For a company to thrive, it needs to find and broadcast its purpose in all that it does. If you want your company and team members to be seen as going above and beyond the competition, you need to include an element that adds social value or sustainability for the greater community.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2019

Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance. Some of these platform companies, taken together, now have a shared nickname: “FAANG,” which. The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. First, within our portfolio I am really excited about Wheels (Crosscut led the seed round at the end of 2018).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2018

As a business advisor, I have long been surprised by the large number of industry stalwarts, including Blockbuster, Kodak, and General Motors, that have been dealt major setbacks, or even total failure, by upstart young companies, with a fraction of the resources or industry experience. Acquire and cultivate new knowledge disciplines.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018. One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. Look for value points to control.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Fortunately for three companies from the NASA iTech Challenge, they will be teaming up with some of the finest scientific minds to help with space exploration and NASA’s mission to Mars. In the end, three companies in plasma technology, haptic communication and germ-fighting robots took home the win. FGC Plasma Solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Their focus is on how the smartest companies today already create and use learning to engage, compete, and succeed. I believe these insights can and must be extended to you and your career, in line with the following guiding principles: Make your interest in learning your competitive advantage. It’s a win-win situation for success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

In China, even tiny bike sharing companies now have to digitally track every bike through GPS, and every mobile interaction between a bike and a rider to compete. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative. If your business is not powered by an algorithm, you don’t have a competitive business today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Just ask former big brand companies, like Blockbuster, Kodak, Lehman Brothers, and Sears, what happened to them. For example, even the giant Amazon acquired Whole Foods as a growth entryway into the competitive grocery and food industry. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/18/2018.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? While 2018 was all about better understanding the SoCal opportunity, 2019 was about honing our focus and defining our core programs. We'll be featuring contributions all through the holiday season. Verizon, and Wells Fargo just to mention a few.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2018

Thus without thinking, every company becomes more static. In fact, innovation needs to be an integral part of the company culture and every process from the beginning. Nice to have” features or a ten percent cost advantage is not convincing or competitive these days. Aim for an order-of-magnitude innovation improvement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2018

I will suggest to you as a business owner and entrepreneur that focus on certain key behaviors will drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Be outspoken in communicating proactive required change. Too many companies try to force a sense of employee urgency through deadlines and performance goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Maximize your impact on the success of the company. Entrepreneurial thinkers always think and act like they own the company. Know your peers and build your competitive advantage. Entrepreneurs realize that competitors are outside businesses, not other people in your department or other organizations in your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

If you are one of these owners who wants to do the right thing to survive and delight your customers, but doesn’t know where to start, I am here to recommend some best practices that I see successful companies, and many startups, who have focused on this issue. It takes a well-rounded and motivated team to run a competitive business today.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It means competition is more fierce because formidable new competitors can arrive overnight. On fatherhood and entrepreneurship… As CEO and co-founder of productboard, how does Hubert Palan manage the company, the product, and his newborn son? Now everything our company does?—?from Why has product management be so slow to adapt?

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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. I see many companies that don’t make this transition well.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

And while that cliché has been said about everything in the Lone Star state for years, it rings particularly true for the hottest startups showcasing their big innovations at SXSW Startup Night 2018 presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo. Once uploaded, the company safeguards the data in their secure cloud.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It works at all levels inside an organization, as well as outside the company. With their advocacy and guidance, your morale, skills, and thus productivity will go up, benefiting both the company and your career. Work to make your ability to manage relationships your sustainable competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We expect in 2018, we will have as much as 150 million Euros, or around $180M US. There's a lot of money out there, but if you have a good company, finding money shouldn't be the hardest thing. Instead, we have a turnkey company we work with for our portfolio companies, which we have brought in and have known for about 20 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/22/2018.

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