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Angel Investing 101 Workshop

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 -- Angel Investing 101. Tech Coast Angels. On April 3rd, 2019 we're pleased to offer you another round of the popular "Angel Investing 101" workshop. This year will also include a segment focused on the TCA due diligence and funding process and TCA's new $2M+ Annual Fund. How do we know?

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Energica CEO plots her Italian EV company’s reboot from lockdown

TechCrunch LA

general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini. Technology from the track is transferring to production models, according to Cevolini. In 2019, Zero launched its high-performance SR/F, with 110 horsepower and a top-speed of 120 mph.

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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven

TechCrunch LA

Maven had paused service due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Maven had already suspended its consumer car-sharing and a peer-to-peer service due to COVID-19. ” Maven was designed to bring and expand several of GM’s existing test programs under one brand. GM’s experiment with car sharing is over.

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Reflections on 2020: Brian Mac Mahon, Expert Dojo

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021?

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Spying a pivot to ghost kitchens, Softbank’s second Vision Fund pours $120 million into Ordermark

TechCrunch LA

Investors from the latest Vision Fund first reached out to Canter shortly after the company announced its last round of funding in 2019. In some ways, Nextbite couldn’t exist without Ordermark’s delivery aggregation technology. Then there’s secret shopping and review monitoring to monitor quality.”

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6 Building Blocks Make Amazon A Global Market Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/12/2019.

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5 Stages In Leading Paradigm Shift Levels Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

A refrain I often hear from technology entrepreneurs to investors is that their product or solution is so innovative that it will cause a “paradigm shift” in the industry. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years.