TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it has started to wind down Maven. Below is a screenshot of the email sent Tuesday morning to Maven customers.

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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. Other companies keep the focus on their customers, and seem to thrive on disruption, much less survive. They make it their top business priority to understand, anticipate, and gratify customers’ needs.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

Rather than having to do painful biopsies which often come with significant side effects, Gal’s software can now be used to slash the cost for a full-body MRI scan designed to screen for 11 different types of cancer in men and another 13 types of cancer in women (who have more organs that are likely to develop cancer).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini. Harley Davidson introduced its all electric $29K LiveWire in 2019, becoming the first of the big gas manufacturers to offer a street-legal e-moto for sale in the U.S. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

The biggest challenge these days doesn’t seem to be in starting a new business, but sustaining it against the onslaught of market changes and new competitors that emerge every day. In my other role of business advisor, I see examples often of startups that may have taken success for granted too early. Capitalize on what already exists.

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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. Like Paul Graham , founder of Y-Combinator, said a long time ago, I see startups succeed or fail every day based primarily on the qualities of the founders. More available talent.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 30, 2021

Self-driving and robotics startup Cartken has partnered with REEF Technology, a startup that operates parking lots and neighborhood hubs, to bring self-driving delivery robots to the streets of downtown Miami. Customers would receive a text when the robot arrives so they could go outside and meet it. Image Credits: REEF/Cartken.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers. Practice continuous bar-raising for your talent pool.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

We caught up with Pluto TV's co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Ilya Pozin , to hear about how the company started, and its path to acquisitionas well as to get some tips on startup success. Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. What's your story and how did you end up founding Pluto TV?

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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. Beast Mode is taking on a new meaning in the startup world.

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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. In contrast, Ida’s designs accentuated women’s feminity.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition , which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to Waymo’s laser bears and cybersecurity. The framework of the agreement is expected to include VW making an investment into Ford-backed autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Welcome back to The Station, the go-to newsletter for keeping up-to-date on what the heck is going on in the world of transportation. To get everything, you have to sign up. The closure might surprise some, considering Coup has brand recognition and, according to the company a loyal customer base that uses its services.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Using its proprietary printing technology, Relativity says it can slash the time it takes to develop a rocket from design to launch by up to two years. Relativity Space signs the satellite transportation company Momentus as a new customer. Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2019

What we learn in school hasn’t kept up with the demands. These authors have more than thirty years of experience in complex problem solving, including solution approaches, in McKinsey & Company, start-up companies, and many social and environmental organizations. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/21/2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Thus I offer some practical strategies if you are looking for direction or the best place to start: Look for opportunities to increase recycling and reuse. It’s also time to make more products recyclable, by designing them as a natural loop from creation to reuse. But it all starts with you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In my view, success starts with nurturing and bringing in the right people to make it happen, or being one of the right people from within if you want your career to blossom. If you act, you learn from other people, especially customers, and you build momentum. Start your tenure from today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2019

Some people call this the emergence and development of a new type of leader, called the algorithmic leader, who can steer the course through the world of big data, machine learning, and the constantly changing demands of new customers and social trends. He anticipated his future customers and what they might want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2019

What is not so obvious is how to create and roll out solutions that can directly impact customer trust or financial well-being. Human employees and customers still need roles. Your role in business is to manage the transition where humans and machines will productively co-exist to keep human customers satisfied.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

Comfort and community are two of the main aspects that the business seems to strive for, offering modern clean environments with all mod-cons, as well as regular community events for customers, including networking meetings. Designed to inspire, motivate productivity and promote ways to thrive digitally. But that's not been the case.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2019

For example, I too often see entrepreneurs with great determination failing to get investor funding to start a capital-intensive business, such as building a new automated factory. At this point you need questions designed to raise basic issues, relating to business goals, or who is the target audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

Their assumption is that customers and investors will be wowed by this into buying, ignoring the evidence that large-scale change takes a long time, most often fails, and scares away customers and investors alike. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹. To determine if local providers have the coverage you need, start by assessing their on-net maps.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Archer Aviation, the electric aircraft startup that recently announced a deal to go public via a merger with a blank-check company, plans to launch a network of its urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024. an increasingly common financial path that allows the startup to eschew the once traditional IPO process.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Clio last raised in September of 2019 when it brought in $250 million in a Series D financing. Historically, legal practice management software was limited to server-based solutions designed for enterprise businesses — not small law firms, Newton said. Clio has more than 150,000 customers across 100 countries.

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