SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2019

Thursday, June 13, 2019 -- Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in Orange County, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!

Orange County 100

Orange County Venture Capital Angel Tech Coast Angels 100

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).

Sales 282

Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

If anything, the presence of a growth capital investment firm like Bond, which has not invested in companies operating in what some investors have considered to be frontier markets or technologies, speaks to the strength of the space industry as a whole. Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi.

Chief Technology Officer 168

Chief Technology Officer SpaceX Los Angeles Venture Capital 168

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

A wave of other initiative and investments were announced in 2016 that showed GM’s shift in interest toward unconventional transportation businesses that were adjacent to its core business of producing, selling and financing cars, trucks and SUVs to consumers.

Los Angeles 215

Los Angeles Technical Review Email Services 215

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. billion investment in 2018.

San Fernando 217

San Fernando Los Angeles Commerce News 217

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

And in addition to streamlining biofuel production, Reversion is also developing ways to improve energy storage for when supply exceeds demand, taking a multi-pronged approach to sustainable power generation. . million-strong market of digital nomads (up almost 10 million from 2019) has proved to be a smart move for the Austin-based company.

Startup 119

Startup Artificial Inteligence Platform Newsletter 119

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

Technical Review 343

Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We have many really good IPOs on the Horizon such as Uber and Lyft and Slack, most of which will probably try and get out in Q1, but the big question will be can the technology sector, and the market as a whole for that matter, keep up its bull run long beyond the normal cycle or will we see more than just a correction in 2019? On Demand).

Southern California 100

Southern California News Class Writing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. Startups going public are laid open to competitors and critics.

Startup 84

Startup Technical Review Report IBM 84

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

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. Whether Spotify doubles down on its walled garden of audio or opts to invest in podcast ads, they’ll snag a big piece of a growing industry. Finally, podcasting is a growing market.

Acquisition 124

Acquisition Media News Platform 124

Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas. To keep pace, carriers are making strategic infrastructure investments to expand and improve coverage. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹.

Networking 45

Networking Demand Southern California .Net 45

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Image via Pixabay After a frustrating meeting with a small business client recently who didn’t “have time” for social media, I was surprised to find evidence on the Internet that up to one quarter of small business owners are still hesitant to invest time, money, and effort into a social media strategy.

Social Media 99

Social Media Media Tool Startup 99

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88 Customer expectations now demand seamless and satisfying user experiences. The Continued Growth of Cloud. The All-Important User Experience.

Artificial Inteligence 106

Artificial Inteligence Screening Google Customer 106

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. The underlying issue is we don't know what to watch, which makes on-demand a really bad experience. Everything was going on-demand, we we said, more people want to be programmed to, which was very contrarian. That just doesn't happen.

Startup 124

Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. As a result, smart investors will tell you they invest in the jockey, not the horse (people, not ideas). Make the product or service come alive.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

” Sharper Startup Focuses Warrant Investment. “RFP and response management software combined with PreSales is a strategic area for investment at the moment for a lot of VC’s and PE companies, so it feels like Avnio is in the right place at the right time.”. However, investors have seen fit to pump $31.2

Startup 104

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Course 104

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

What were doing in 2019, is scaling the company. Those are largey strategic investors, as well as institutional investors who believe in what we are doing, and are also investing in the overall drone ecosystem. Were completely sold out, and theres more demand than we can keep up with. Finally, whats next for you?

Startup 187

Startup Technical Review Technology Competition 187

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

Semiconductor advances are infamous for costing millions of dollars and requiring very significant investment in infrastructure. How did a startup like yours go from that research to a product without millions and millions invested in semiconductor infrastructure? is dwindling, and consolidating, as companies are being bought up.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

A clear symptom of founder’s syndrome is more excuses, more demands, and more direction without input. Therefore, if you are looking to join a startup, or invest in one, I recommend that you beyond a quick inspirational interview or two with the founder, before making a decision.

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Startup Demand Examples 89

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. Find the new jobs inside the old ones, and invest in the skills required.

Artificial Inteligence 96

Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom Design 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

Thus incremental investments are better spent figuring out ways to extract further value from sticky customers at any given point in time. For example, you will often find some new customers who want to test your limits by demanding extra service or concessions, leaving you with little or no lifetime value.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Product Metrics 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2019

Thus a coaching culture is well worth the investment in time and effort. In fact, in today’s digital age, with a rapid movement to new generations of workers, and equally rapid changes in technology and market demands, your business may not survive without it. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 07/11/2019.

Coach 91

Coach Course Mentor Examples 91

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Treat employees like your most demanding customers. Very few organizations communicate internally with the same investment of thought and professionalism as when implementing their customer-obsessed strategies. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/13/2019. Don’t let your competitor get there first.

Ideas 77

Ideas Customer Custom Competition 77

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 2019 market conditions often are such that founders retain control of the board through the A-round, usually in a 2–1 (common to investor) ratio but sometimes it’s 3–2 (common to investor). For starters, the incoming CEO will demand between 4–6% of the company so shareholders will immediately face dilution. But it’s quite rare.

Startup 236

Startup Venture Capital Tips Capital 236

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

That's because employees who are facing individual fines for not having insurance will, in many cases, choose to buy it at the workplace, thereby increasing demand. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the credit could amount to $40 billion in savings for four million small businesses by 2019.

Slides 100

Slides Startup Study Resource 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2019

Uber and Airbnb managed to remain “under the radar” of the giants by snatching up excess demand until they had their own foothold in the market. Their view is that if it doesn’t work for millions of customers, it is a poor investment. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/22/2019.

Customer 73

Customer Custom Social Media Startup 73

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building a mission into a business By the time Valence launched in late 2019, the team had built the necessary systems and technology to seamlessly engage and onboard the community?—?not Huge hats off to Kobie for the idea, energy, direction, evening hours and the foresight and salesmanship required to bring on Guy to take the helm.

Funding 314

Funding Venture Capital Entrepreneur Networking 314