socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Whatnot offers up a live stream shopping platform and marketplace aimed at collectors and enthusiasts. The startup is led by Grant Lafontaine and Logan Head, and was founded in 2019. The company said it has raised a total of $225M now in funding.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

PCH) announced on Wednesday that it has acquired both alcohol delivery and logistics platform Saucey , as well as cannabis delivery and retail software developer Emjay. markets, including reater Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C.,

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 -- LAVA Healthcare Presents: The ins-and-outs of celebrity partnerships and how it can increase your company's value. Discover how to navigate generational market complexity as Millennials and Gen Z look more to digital platforms and social media for healthcare guidance.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

In a global mobile games market that is consolidating, Jam City could not be more proud to be working with JPMorgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Silicon Valley Bank, SunTrust Bank and CIT Group to strategically support the financing of our acquisition and growth plans,” said Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and CEO of Jam City.

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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. Now, Saltbox has completed a $10.6

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JANUARY 10, 2019

The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion. Some of these platform companies, taken together, now have a shared nickname: “FAANG,” which. Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The merger is the first step of what’s a planned rollup strategy for PCH (also the nickname for the highway that runs along the California Coast), which aims to be the leading vertically integrated vice platform focusing on e-commerce, delivery logistics, and cross industry behavioral insights. Mangalji said in a statement.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The addition adds Delaware, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Maine, Idaho, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, Montana, West Virginia and Wyoming to its platform. HyreCar--which is publicly listed--said it expects the expansion to add at least 25 percent in terms of incremental 2019 revenues.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen , Los Angeles Market Manager for Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Given SVBs market position, that is great news. The Playa Vista company is aggressively taking market share and could go public. Nonetheless, I expect that in 2019 the VC market will shift toward demanding profit.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. Bev , a canned wine business that recently raised $7 million in seed funding from Founders Fund, thinks marketing in the alcohol industry is the problem. pic.twitter.com/DMEg88t4iO. Fundraising.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Only companies with cutting-edge concepts and crystal-clear market strategies stand a chance of surviving through their first year, let alone making a profit. From state-of-the-art clean energy solutions to breakthrough podcasting platforms, here are six tech startups you should be keeping an eye on in 2023, and beyond.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2019

With the advent and popularity of crowdfunding platforms, including Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as a winning alternative for funding your new venture, I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs are confused about the need to ever seek a professional angel investor. They don’t get excited by early stage research, development, or marketing hype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The former President of ExactTarget and later chief executive of Salesforce Marketing Cloud has made billions of dollars building products to help support customer service and now he’s back at it again with his latest venture MetaCX.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

That’s a reason why some are quick to portend “a new bubble” but this post sets out to show that would be a misunderstanding of the market and in fact by historic levels this may be amongst the best times to invest in seed and early-stage funds. More on that later. If you look even more closely you’ll see just how skewed the data really is.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 23, 2020

It has inked a licensing deal with Merlin , the global agency that represents tens of thousands of independent music labels and hundreds of thousands of artists, for music from those labels to be used legally on the TikTok platform anywhere that the app is available.

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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. That’s because the acquisitions make Spotify a publisher, as well as platform. Finally, podcasting is a growing market.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Investors from the latest Vision Fund first reached out to Canter shortly after the company announced its last round of funding in 2019. We took it to market at the end of last year prior to COVID. Nextbite is something we’ve been developing for a while now. When COVID kicked in every restaurant in America needed to be more creative.

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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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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 30, 2021

The company, founded by ex-Google engineers and colleagues behind the unrequited Bookbot , was formed to develop market-ready tech in self-driving, AI-powered robotics and delivery operations in 2019, but the team has kept operations under wraps until now. With this announcement, Cartken officially comes out of stealth mode.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Bounce, which is known for its cheap rental costs, along with competitors Vugo and Yulu are trying to carve market share away from ride-hailing companies like Uber. Evelozcity rebranded as Canoo in spring 2019 and unveiled its prototype electric vehicle several months later. The big attraction isn’t necessarily price either.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg became a major influencer of social networking by first allowing only students from Harvard on his platform, and highlighting the uniqueness of Facebook. People want to connect with and learn from people like them – not from edicts, anonymous brand marketing material, and white papers that allow no interaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

You will find it pays big dividends, even in your personal life, to track and manage expenses with a simple business platform, like QuickBooks or Apptivo , for work and family. Market your business expertise. In today’s gig economy, your professional reputation, references, and your ability to market yourself are the keys to success.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And how are these concerns exacerbated given that these authors’ target audience is too young to buy cryptocurrency on platforms like Coinbase and Gemini? The marketing of the project made it unclear how these digital goods intersected with the collaborative storytelling aspect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Choose the best social media platform for your domain. Integrate social media into your overall marketing strategy. Most businesses need a mix of offline and online marketing, promotions, loyalty programs, and community involvement. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/25/2019.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

We are across many platforms, and have a whole array of enterprise customers. It's a free app, and works in all of the stores, and is platform agnostic. 2019 is the last year the baby boomers will be the majority of new vehicle purchasers. Because we put it on the app store, we got over 1 million downloads. READ MORE>>.

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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. Your brand-loyal customer advocates can be your exponential marketing. Never stop hunting for new opportunities and new markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The result is a hierarchy and a static group of silos that doesn’t adapt to market changes and competitors. and China, as thought leaders in this area, so their framework for reinventing your business organization, with some of my own insights, is definitely worth a look: Environment: Fund a group to track market changes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Investors realize that the resources and risk required to hit both markets concurrently are great, so they will likely look for focus, or a staged approach. A niche market sizing or a shrinking opportunity may make a good family business, but is likely not of interest to investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

These are win-win arrangements leading to continuous innovation, early access to new markets, and a higher return. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/27/2019. Nurture relationships and connections with people in your realm who exhibit curiosity and a passion for learning. Where is this effort on your priority list?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Of course, you can’t monitor the entire Internet yourself, but fortunately there are many tools and platforms out there to do it for you, such as Google Alerts and Hootsuite Insights. If you don’t have the time yourself, this process should be high on the priority list of your marketing team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

File an 83(b) election with the IRS within 30 days of founding the company, while the market value of your startup is essentially zero. Even though the initial stock has no value or market, it is imperative that you document the division of ownership immediately between co-founders commensurate with their investment, contribution, and role.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We checked all of those boxes, and then went back out to market in Spring of 2017, last year. We feel pretty good on the growth of our locations, and we're now focused on getting all of our retailers live on the platform ahead of the busy holiday season. We managed to raise our Series A, which was also led by Upfront Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Yves Sisteron , Stuart Lander & I (depicted in the photo below) have worked together for more than 22 years now and that has taken us through many cycles of market enthusiasm & panic. What do you do with a $650 million platform? We’ve also worked with our Partner, Dana Kibler who is also our CFO for nearly 20 years.

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