socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2020

According to the company, the recent pandemic doubled the volume of individuals seeking its estate planning services. The company was founded in 2017, but only raised its Series A in December of 2019, when it raised $6M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels San Diego Seed Funding Competition 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which offers up online services to help people create trusts, wills, and guardianships, has raised $6M in a new funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The startup had announced $2M in an earlier funding in January of 2019. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels San Diego Seed Funding Competition 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to ConnectedTravel, it is in a collaboration with Universal Music Group's Capitol Music Group for the upcoming Capitol Royale Hackathon from November 15-17, 2019. Details of the collaboration were not announced. The hackathon wil be at the Capitol Records Building in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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Los Angeles Competition Ideas Angel 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Saturday, November 16, 2019 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Transportation. As traditional car ownership declines, companies are offering cost-effective alternatives powered by new technology and networks. Emerging Opportunities in Urban Mobility and the Business Models It Will Enable.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 8, 2019. This too shall pass.”

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Technical Review Startup Chief Technology Officer Social Media 144

TechCrunch LA

MAY 20, 2021

So in 2019 she founded Eano , a San Francisco-based startup that aims to walk a homeowner through a renovation and help connect individual contractors with new clients. Eano, she said, offers competitive and transparent pricing so that homeowners aren’t surprised as a remodeling project goes on.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Software Review 185

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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Venture Capital Marketing Technical Review Seed Funding 416

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. Up and to the right or perish.

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Venture Capital Startup Marketing Pricing 466

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

Yet the 2019 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. found in polling more than 700 professionals at companies nationwide, that 58 percent had participated in an office romance, and almost three-quarters of those who’ve had relationships said they’d be willing to engage in another one. Can be a competitive advantage.

Startup 119

Startup Course Competition Social Media 119

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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Platform Marketing Company Companies 43

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

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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Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

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. Simply put?—?there

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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

If there are burnout or communication problems on a founding team those problems can hijack a company's progress. Techstars has continued to expand its global footprint with 48 accelerator programs around the world and the first company from our portfolio (Sendgrid) to IPO in late 2017 and then be acquired by Twilio in 2018.

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Startup Press Commerce Southern California 124

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. The key takeaway? What can you tell us about MuteSix as an agency?

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Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The challenge is that too many are confused on what that means for them, and what it takes to make their business competitively agile. These authors, and I agree, define agility in business as the ability to detect and assess changes in the competitive world in real time, and then take decisive and effective action.

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Competition Examples Startup Resource 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

I suspect the exuberance for an IPO is still being driven by the highly visible successes of a few companies several years ago, including Facebook, Yelp, and Twitter. The numbers represent a 45% increase from the previous quarter’s tally, but a 14% drop from the same quarter in 2019. Public companies bring new expectations of benefits.

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Startup Technical Review Acquisition Study 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

In the popular press, it’s easy to find articles that will convince you that companies with a good culture, such as Google, do it by lavishing perks and benefits , including some combination of free meals, trips and parties, financial bonuses, gyms, and a dog-friendly environment. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/14/2019.

Competition 76

Competition Coach Case Study Statistics 76

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

The firm, which underwent a significant restructuring over the last two years, went on an investment tear over the course of 2019 as new partners went out to build up a new portfolio for the firm — almost of a whole cloth. Companies are raising some angel money or Y Combinator money.”

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IBM IBM Venture Capital Invest 164

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? What were doing in 2019, is scaling the company. That really got me involved in drones, and got started developing our own drones, and eventually, create a company to sell those drones.

Startup 187

Startup Technical Review Technology Competition 187

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding. Increased liability risk exposure.

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Startup Technical Review Report IBM 84

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands. The company that owned the brand was Provide Commerce, and the brand was Proflowers, which they owned along with a couple of other brands.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Do you need a board when you first start you company? Time based as in “a guaranteed right for 12 months, which can be renewed by mutual board consent” and event based “a guaranteed right until the company has raised $x million from new investors.” This is the norm and unless you have a hugely competitive round it’s not worth fighting.

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Startup Venture Capital Tips Capital 236

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In today’s world of growing competition and customer evolution , holding your own, and growing to the next level is a constant challenge that can never be ignored. Even companies with long-established and well-respected brands, such as Apple and Amazon, can’t afford to rest on their laurels. Building a business is not a solo act.

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Ideas Customer Custom Competition 77

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

They forget that adapting their company and themselves as their customers evolve is the key to long-term survival. What worked for you yesterday probably won’t keep you alive and competitive tomorrow. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/20/2019. Standing still is actually falling behind.

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Customer Custom Examples IBM 143

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over twice as many companies, according the Crunchbase. Institutional venture capital dispensed in 2019 was down a bit from record highs the previous year, but up significantly over the last few years.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform). .”

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Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

To me, that means treating your career more like a business than a job – with a continual and global focus on keeping up with competition, finding customers, preparing for changes ahead, and taking responsibility for your own finances. Build your reputation and visibility beyond your company.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Social Media Training 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Yet the 2019 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. found in polling more than 700 professionals at companies nationwide, that 58 percent had participated in an office romance, and almost three-quarters of those who’ve had relationships said they’d be willing to engage in another one. Can be a competitive advantage.

Startup 94

Startup Course Competition Social Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2019

In fact, customer experience can be a greater competitive advantage than your product. More diagnostic tools to fix problems may not be competitive. Customers these days seek out companies that are socially and environmentally conscious, as well as responsive to customer needs.

Startup 91

Startup Customer Custom Examples 91

socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we talked with Gina Callari , the COO of RelayCars (www.relaycars.com), a unit of a larger company called EVOX Images, which has developed virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) software which lets consumers view and experience automobiles using things like Magic Leap and even just smartphone.

Sales 124

Sales Research Content Edmunds 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The right strategy for branding these days is to create a most memorable total customer experience for customers, rather than a focus on hyping the product and the company name. You can’t win by being “just another” company that sells on price. For too many companies, packaging and delivery are an afterthought, but they shouldn’t be.

Social Media 73

Social Media Customer Custom Mobile 73

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2019

The most successful companies today build a strategy to proactively anticipate the needs of their customers, as a group and individually, and totally delight them with all aspects of the shopping experience, value, delivery, and help with any follow-on questions or problems. Highlight your competitive value, not your technology.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Customer Custom Competition 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

For example, I recently picked up my phone to call a well-advertised local company for a TV repair. He outlines six key macro-trends in business today which makes that make this an ever-growing challenge for leaders, and offers some real guidance on how to mitigate the impact: Leaders still reeling from competition and recession.

Customer 83

Customer Custom Demand Examples 83

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Crowdfunding, on the other hand, opens the investment door online to almost anyone who is willing to bet on a new product or service with an investment, typically for a chance to be first in line for the offering, and willing to forgo any equity or management position in the company. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/21/2019.

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Funding Startup Platform Examples 119

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

He deploys it in narrow specific processes to expedite decisions for customers (Internet of Things), and new ways to get to “yes” and eliminate the bureaucracy that forms as companies mature. Customer and competitive demands are rising across all sectors and experiences. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/15/2019.

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Commerce Artificial Inteligence Cloud Computing Platform 89

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This statement leaves no confusion in the minds of investors, or customers, of what the company does and how it is different (and better) than the competition. Ideally the solution embodies intellectual property that you own, giving you a sustainable competitive advantage.

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.Net Examples Customer Custom 73

Southern California Edison Blog

MAY 27, 2020

Having access to a dependable network with maximum uptime correlates directly with an organization’s ability to remain productive, innovative, and competitive. Ensure that your company embraces network redundancy in the form of backup equipment and devices in the event of unavailable or blocked network routes.

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Networking Services Resource Competition 59