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. Before the health crisis shutdown most of Italy, Energica had already seen larger demand for its high-performance e-motos, with a price range of $17,000 to $23,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2019

Many notable recent successes, including Airbnb and Uber, have done it by finding disruptive customers, with essentially no new technology. They seek customers willing to decouple from accepted buying models, or are actively looking for a better total experience. Instead seek out customers they can’t or won’t serve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. Many companies try to recover with more advertising and rebranding, and discover that these strategies don’t work well in today’s market. I recommend creating new services and products for existing customers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Online education operator 2U , which has offices in Los Angeles, has added another degree program at the University of Southern California, the company said this week. The new degree programs include a Master of Planning program, expected to launch in January of 2019, and a Master of Public Policy, expected to launch in 2020.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

What sets the company apart from others in the space, its execs claim, is that it not only builds and installs the units, it helps homeowners with the painful process of getting permits. Abodu has been active in the market, selling and building its ADUs since the fall of 2019. All have kitchens and living space.

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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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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Enter Seedlip , a non-alcoholic spirits company, for example. Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. Automattic acquires subscription payment company Prospress.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The e-tron Sportback reveal ahead of the LA Auto Show follows the launch earlier this year of Audi’s first all-electric vehicle, the 2019 e-tron. Audi has delivered 18,500 of its all-electric e-tron SUVs globally since March 2019 when the vehicle first came to market. The base price of the Sportback is 71,350 ($79,000).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 15, 2021

Saltbox opened its first facility — a 27,000-square-foot location — in its home base of Atlanta in late 2019, filling it within two months. The company plans to end 2021 with eight locations, in particular eyeing the Denver, Seattle and Los Angeles markets. This is costing companies in significant but untold ways.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

When Ezra first launched about six months ago, the company was using magnetic resonance imaging machines to test for prostate cancer in men. But the company’s founder, Emi Gal, always had a larger goal. That’s still a steep price for customers to pay out of pocket. The American Cancer Society estimates that 1.7

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship raised $40 million Series A led by Morpheus Ventures back in 2019, and last January according to Pitchbook data also raised a further $17 million with strategic backers TDK Ventures (the investment arm of the Japanese electronics giant) and Goodyear Ventures among the investors. “99% of the time our robots have nobody involved.

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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. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

We learned early on this year that one of our key success factors was efficiently harnessing this group to create value for our portfolio companies, nearly all of whom benefit in one way or another from our investors. Nearly every day our 50+ LPs are creating real and measurable value for our early stage healthcare companies.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

For example, one of the first home grocery delivery companies, Webvan, was so enamored with early traction in Silicon Valley, it raised and spent nearly a billion dollars and went public, before filing for bankruptcy three years later. Control costs and adjust prices to maintain your margin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

They don’t realize that they are missing out on a great opportunity for “free” promotion, as well as taking a great risk by not listening to what customers are saying, and not monitoring or responding to undeserved challenges to their reputation. Demand professional business skills and customer advocacy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

These are willing to share data with a variety of companies if there is a perceived beneficial effect to the consumer behind the sharing. They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. These are typically decision makers, shoppers, and early adopters.

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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. Here are some key recommendations for building your branding plan: Find out who your customers are through social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

Based on my own experience in business over the years, and current coaching efforts, I recommend a focus on the following strategies and attributes: Make your customer the center of everything you do. Customers need to believe that you have their interests at heart. Customers need to believe that you have their interests at heart.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

The company mission statement is, of course, a way to seize attention externally, and focus team members on the end destination. Or are they simply becoming more realistic in what they promise to their customers and their own staff? ” Remember when every new tech company seemed to promise a revolution in the way of doing things?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 21, 2019

Opportunity knocked when one of her customers was spotted at a high-end boutique, wearing one of Ida’s outfits. The store’s owner, Enid Bissett, asked the customer where she had purchased the dress. The two women established a custom dress shop called Enid Frocks. This public exposure drove wealthy customers to Enid Frocks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

If you are looking for funding and customers for your new business, you need to identify your “unique selling proposition” (USP) right up front, in 30 seconds or less, to differentiate yourself in today’s information overload. Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2019

Image via Pixabay According to The Washington Post and WSJ, the economy has been slowing down around the world, and the US will follow suit before 2019 ends. If you're worried about threats to the survival of your company, don't look for them in the news. Ad revenue is still down as companies right-size marketing budgets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2019

Yet I find that most employees I know limit their scope of thinking to the specific role they are assigned, and rarely tune their thinking and results to the following key principles that every business owner can relate to: Connect every action to a business focus on customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/18/2019.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It reportedly paid a hefty $230 million to acquire the podcast publisher and network startup Gimlet Media, and has also acquired the podcast monetization platform Anchor for an undisclosed price. The company has stated that it plans to spend a total of $500 million on podcasting investments, meaning it still has a few hundred million to burn.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Micromobbin’ Shared mopeds might be popular, but that doesn’t mean companies operating these services are guaranteed to succeed. The closure might surprise some, considering Coup has brand recognition and, according to the company a loyal customer base that uses its services. Subscriptions are so hot right now.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

What you’ll also find is that of the 25 companies, our founders represent an inclusive group with 40 percent female, 52 percent minority and 12 percent veteran founders from 14 states and 5 countries. Once uploaded, the company safeguards the data in their secure cloud. AdWallet (Albuquerque, NM). That’s the concept behind AdWallet.

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