socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Los Angeles-based e-commerce platform developer Boosted Commerce says it has hired Steve Oliver, the former CEO of e-commerce startup Hollar as its new President. Oliver was head of Hollar through its sale to Five Below in 2020. He previously also served as COO of Ticketfly, and also previously served at Amazon.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. E-commerce sales typically account for 80% of Glossier’s revenue, the Business of Fashion reported last July. .

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Genies is partnering with a handpicked group of creators to design the first set of collections available on the platform, Nigam said. On Genie, only approved sellers on the platform will be able to launch collections to start, though the company says it eventually wants to empower all its users to create unique 1-of-1 fashion items.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 7, 2020

million in financing to support the buildout of its services and sales teams to manage clients. Our 2020 goal is to build a full digital marketing solution for real estate agents looking to build successful, lead-generating digital brands,” said Malte Kramer, the company’s chief executive, in a statement.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. Through its platform publishers can make between 15% to 20% of gross compared with 5% on an affiliate marketing site.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

to date, the company said that it saw an 188% growth in annual recurring revenue compared to a year ago, with more than 25,000 individuals in 2,000 salons and spas in the country now using its platform. Focusing on the U.S. trillion, and the spa sector passing $150 billion, both by 2025. Albeit that is with a different-shaped set of workers.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” (And for some context, the $1 billion+ valuation is more than double GrubMarket’s valuation in October 2020, when it raised $60 million at a $500 million post-money valuation.). software platform. Longer term, the plan will be to look at an IPO provisionally filing the paperwork by summer 2022, Xu added. and Canada.

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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. Starting in 2020, that becomes millennials, whose shopping habits are much different. Because we put it on the app store, we got over 1 million downloads.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The two platforms are both huge in their respective markets: By connecting TikTok's audience with small businesses online everywhere, this team-up could offer a lifeline to business owners amid a rocky economy. The platforms will add additional ecommerce features down the line, though they're a little vague on what those will be.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2022

of US consumers reported having used this type of payment service, a percentage up from 37.65% in the summer of 2020. ” In addition, Sophie Sakellariadis, Payments Product Lead at Stripe, cited the need to keep up with changing consumer preferences in her statement discussing the deal. In early 2022, 55.8% billion valuation in 2021.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2020? Brands where the solution is the product - be that removal of plastic through the sales of canned water or the encouragement of rental use products vs purchase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution. Start with a range of platforms, including social media, advertising, and a great website. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/15/2020.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It’s coming from Leif , itself a startup that provides financing services to edtech platforms so that they can offer their students income share agreements (otherwise known as ISAs, arrangements where students are not required to pay back tuition loans until they find jobs).

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Here are some of the top options available in 2020 to anyone who wants to earn a living or a side hustle by recommending products online. They’re a huge commerce platform, too, working with 60,000 publishers around the globe. eBay is a huge ecommerce platform, earning an annual revenue north of $10 billion in 2018 alone.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. We started to dump money into sales and marketing and development so we could scale up. The second part, is our matching technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 28, 2016

These trends will likely involve cloud based architecture, enhanced platform mobility, real time data analysis, improved fraud detection capabilities and greater niche functionality: Cloud Based Architecture. Enhanced Platform Mobility. These trends appear likely to keep clouds important to business computing in the foreseeable future.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 30, 2016

In fact, predictions suggest that card fraud will reach a total worth of $35 billion by 2020. A new ecommerce platform that assists businesses to process payments, SecurionPay supports 23 languages and more than 160 currencies. But there is much work left to do.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Secondly, even if everyone loved this vehicle and Tesla was poised to take advantage of these perceived efficiencies gained from sharing at least 75 percent of the parts with the Model 3, the Y isn’t coming until fall 2020. Freight railroad owner Genesee & Wyoming is considering a sale of all or part of itself, Bloomberg reported.

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