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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Amazon has razor thin profits compared to their revenue but Bezos doesn't care he just wants growth and world domination and has a market cap of $763B.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. As we close out our contributions for the end of 2018, we have a contribution from investor and investment banker Peter Cowen of Sutton Capital Partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

I second his list of top innovation challenges and strategies to capitalize on untapped global startup opportunities: Create new markets rather than disrupt existing ones. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. Target a global market rather than a local from day one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Since I am a techie at heart, I always get excited when founders pitch their new innovation as “disruptive,” meaning that it is so unique that it will create a new market and disrupt the existing value network, displacing established products and markets. Make that a way to bridge a big technology change to customers and employees.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Carpinteria-based cloud software developer Procore Technologies announced this morning that it has named Jim Sinai as its new Senior Vice President of Marketing. Procore said Sinai will oversee global marketing for the company. Procore said Sinai will oversee global marketing for the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2018

As a long-time advisor to aspiring entrepreneurs, and a technology fan myself, I still meet dozens of techies with great solutions who assume they don’t need marketing to change the world. In fact, with today’s information overload, modern marketing is the key to raising even the most innovative solution above the crowd.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Venture capital firms invest in potentially disruptive technologies with the hope of profit, then keep watch for further advances that could overtake their existing portfolio companies. All this is done while they guide startups through other external challenges such as fundraising droughts and overall market downturns.

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MAY 17, 2021

billion market cap. The IPO looks to be the first in the technology sector for the Santa Barbara area since Sonos went IPO in 2018. Goleta-based construction management software developer Procore is expected to have its IPO debut this week, planning to raise $592M at a $8.9 Procore has been eyeing an IPO since 2019.

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MAY 20, 2021

Carpinteria-based Procore, the construction management software developer which went IPO this morning, is now worth more than $11 billion in market value, after pricing at $67.00 Morgan Securities, Barclays Capital, and Jefferies, along with Canaccord Genuity, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Oppenheimer & Co., above its debut, up 31.34%.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. Hot, Flat & Crowded.”

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

This year at CES 2018 Eureka Park, the mega startup hub of the conference, the hottest early-stage startups from around the world will showcase their products and services aimed at disrupting their respective industries. Meet the startups showcasing at Eureka Park Startup Arlington this year at CES 2018: BooleanGirl.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Yellow , the accelerator program launched by Snap in 2018, has selected ten companies to join its latest cohort. Since launching the platform in 2018, startups from the Snap accelerator have gone on to acquisition (like Stop, Breathe, and Think, which was bought by Meredith Corp.) The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2019

The global recorded music market grew 9.7% in 2018 to $19.1 billion, according to data from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (which has been tracking the industry since the days when the dominant technology was the record player). Songtrust has signed up over 150,000 songwriters for royalties management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. For example, consider how many years it took for the market to move from radio to television, or fully accept personal computers on every desktop.

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MAY 20, 2021

Carpinteria-based construction management software developer Procore Technologies priced its IPO last night, saying it will sell 9,470,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $67.00 Morgan Securities, Barclays Capital, and Jefferies, along with Canaccord Genuity, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Oppenheimer & Co., Piper Sandler & Co.,

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Funding rounds including at least one North American investor made up $234 million of VC investment so far this year in London, up from $85 million in 2018, and equating to a fifth of all VC investment into London’s impact startups. Arrival is now operating in Los Angeles, while Octopus Energy launched in the U.S.

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JULY 19, 2019

The stock offering will provide the company gross proceeds of $10.5M, which it says it will use to expand sales and marketing, customer support, and technology investments to continue to grow its platform. HyreCar had a small IPO back in June of 2018. READ 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. He has over a decade of portfolio management in capital markets.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff.

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MAY 17, 2018

The insurance industry is an old industry, with a lot of contradictions--it's one where the more claims insurers pay to help customers, the less money the insurers make--and it's also one that hasn't been disrupted much yet by technology. Is it possible to use technology to replace the age-old system currently in use in insurance?

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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. Read more about our Startup Nights and SXSW 2018 on TechCo.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Irvine-based a href="[link] Technology, a developer of advertising software, says it has launched an IPO, intending to sell 7,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock in an offering on the Nasdaq Global Market as DSP. Viant is led by technology veteran Tim Vanderhook, who founded Viant with brothers Chris and Russ. and $21.00

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Viant is led by technology veteran Tim Vanderhook, who founded Viant with brothers Chris and Russ. in 2018, and the acquisition of Adelphic in 2017. The company is trading as DSP on the Nasdaq Global Market. The company jumped all the way to $47.72 per share in its first day of trading. in trading on its first day of trading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Even with instant two-way communication via the Internet and mobile phones, your greatest new solution or service won’t found or properly recognized without marketing. I find that digital marketing is the most visible and effective place to start. Put your customer at the top, rather than technology. every month.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 15, 2018

My boss’ boss’ boss was on CNBC this morning touting Verizon ‘s new 5G services and naming Los Angeles as the second city in America to be treated to a commercial rollout of the new networking technology. Verizon first announced its plans in early 2018 to begin bringing 5G to the masses.

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JUNE 4, 2019

La Jolla-based biopharmaceuticals startup Inhibrx has just filed for an IPO, saying in an S-1 filing that it is looking to raise up to $74.75M in an IPO on the Nasdaq Global Market. The company reported a net loss of $31.02M in 2018 on revenues of $8.5M; the company's current revenue stream includes both license fees and grants.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2020

Los Angeles is one of the most desirable locations for commercial real estate in the United States, so it’s little wonder that there’s something of a boom in investments in technology companies servicing the market coming from the region. and increased its user base to 6 million customers, according to a statement.

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JULY 9, 2020

McCarter has been at Mindbody sine 2018, when Mindbody acquired Booker Software, a cloud-based spa and salon business management company where McCarter had served as CEO. As part of the executive shuffle, current Chief Technology Officer Sunil Rajasekar has become President of the company, in addition to continuing to serve as CTO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

My answer is that innovative marketing is always required, to stand out above the crowd. Word-of-mouth is great, but I look for a real marketing budget and action plan. As a starting point, I would expect to see a marketing budget in the first year of 15 to 30 percent of projected revenues.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. What are you looking forward to most in 2018? Aside from $50,000 bitcoin? CryptoKitties!

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

TechCrunch is heading to UCLA on October 18 and we’ve assembled some of the AR/VR industry’s most prescient founders, investors and executives to chat about the startups and trends driving virtual and augmented reality in 2018. While VR might not just be about gaming, it’s accurate to say that, in 2018, it mainly is.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. What are you looking forwardtomost in 2018? Overall I am optimistic for 2018.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. So far, we have launched a handful of blockchain companies and are looking forward to more partnerships in 2018.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Morken has spent the past thirty five years at technology companies and will be reporting directly to the company’s co-founder and chief executive, Rich Pierson. Her operational experience will come in handy as Headspace continues to develop both commercial and clinical products to bring to market, Pierson said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing.

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MAY 13, 2019

Michael Terpin , a cryptocurrency investor with close ties to the Los Angeles technology community, has won a $75.8M According to a spokesperson for Terpin, the win came as part of a cryptocurrency case filed in January of 2018. judgement as part of a lawsuit over a cryptocurrency hacking, Terpin said on Monday. READ MORE>>.

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