Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

While you all recognize that reacting to weak market signals is critical to staying in business and staying competitive, I find that many don’t have the skills and focus to trigger change decisions on a timely basis. New technologies drive the need for support and attachments, which could be your opportunity or loss.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Clio , a software company that helps law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, announced Tuesday it has raised a $110 million Series E round co-led by T. Clio has focused on building out its core technology to an industry that has historically relied on pen and paper in many cases. Rowe Price Associates Inc.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 26, 2022

At the time, the company raised $2 million, and Alexandrov said about the perceived competition, “The level of competition in this market in the U.S. Are rivals snacking on Instacart’s core grocery delivery market? He also wants to take a step further eventually and deliver other items like phones.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The first cars are slated to appear on the road by 2021, according to the company’s current leader, Ulrich Kranz. The company intends to go to market with an entirely new business model by providing customers with its cars for a monthly subscription fee. “After the launch in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Later, in my second career as an entrepreneur with startups, I realized that limited resources and fresh insights actually created the mindset that relied on market change and innovation to survive. We didn’t notice as technology advances had opened a whole new market. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/06/2021.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 18, 2022

Aero Technologies , which describes itself as a “next-generation air travel company” which currently operates on a limited number of routes in the U.S. The company, which previously raised a $20 series A round in 2021, now has a valuation of $300 million. In the U.S., In the U.S., Aero CEO Uma Subramanian.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

just past the AMC Center) , the virtual reality game-maker Survios planted its first flag in the market for location-based gaming. But that’s still a far smaller market than the 10 million game consoles that were sold in the U.S. Earlier this year, in a small, grey-walled storefront inside a very large mall in Torrance, Calif.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

It’s also a massive market — and by Danna’s estimates, still with a lot of untapped business — with Boulevard quoting figures that forecast personal care and beauty sales passing $1.4 But for now, it’s a startup its investors believe is on solid footing in its home market. “As Focusing on the U.S.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Irvine-based Cosemi Technologies , a developer of plug-and-play HDMI, DisplayPort and USB active optical cables, said on Tuesday tht it has raised $8M in a strategic funding round. The company said it expects the first of its solutions to be available as early as the second half of 2021. The company's President and CEO is Dr. Nguyen X.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2021

Santa Monica-based contextual advertising technology developer GumGum says it has acquired JustPremium, a rich media and video ad marketplace in Europe. GumGum said that its 2021 revenues are on track to grow over 40% compared to last year, and the addition of JustPremium will help expedite that growth.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2019

According to the Marshall School, the "STEM specialization" will include certification in areas such as statistics, data analytics, operations and supply chain optimization, finance, forecasting, and digital marketing and modeling. USC said the new option is will become available for its 2020 and 2021 MBA classes this fall.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2021

Long Beach-based rocket developer Rocket Lab is joining the very long list of local technology companies, which is heading towards the public market through a merger with a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). Rocket Lab said it expects the deal to be complete by Q2 of 2021.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2018

The two said that the first block of satellites for DigitalGlobe's WorldView Legion satellites will be launched in two separate flights in 2021, on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets. DigitalGlobe is a provider of high resolution, earth images, for the government and commercial market. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2020

At Liquid Stock, we were fortunate the IPO market stayed red-hot and we had two successful IPOs with Sumo Logic and Wish along with the filing of Affirm, Marqeta and Robinhood which we expect to go public early in Q1/2021. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021?

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy, both founder and co-CEO of the Los Angeles–based company, started Ghost in 2021 after previously working together at Four Five Group, a men’s apparel business. Ghost is not alone in developing technology focused on inventory. Last week, Syrup Tech raised $6.3

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As brick-and-mortar businesses closed and re-opened at limited capacity, our team of digital marketing strategists updated hours on more than 1.3 What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? million local listings, a record number.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Now, Canoo is rounding out its executive team and pushing forward with plans to bring prototype vehicles to market by the end of the year. Initially, Canoo will target customers in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, with additional plans to expand to San Diego and Seattle when the company brings its commercial vehicles to market in 2021.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

With the ITRC 2021 End-of-Year Data Breach Report revealing a 68 percent increase in stolen sensitive personal information, there is a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Marty Zwilling.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But the two executives have plans to source its future collections from artisans living in emerging markets around the world. It’s an industry that has yet to be disrupted by the technological innovations that have reshaped so many other retail markets, they say… and one that’s equally as large as the mattress industry.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 17, 2021

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 -- Viterbi Startup Garage: Oceanside Chat: Cleantech 2.0: The opportunities in this industry are bigger than any other industry, but the challenges of getting new technologies to market have been many. What Every Entrepreneur Needs To Know.

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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. As the clean energy market rises exponentially, Rerverion aims to solve some major challenges plaguing the sector by rethinking the way biogas is extracted. Source: wander.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2021

As a logical and data-driven business advisor, I have long focused on facts, technology, and quantifiable pain in guiding entrepreneurs. By focusing your marketing activities on key individuals known to wield influence in your target customer market, you can deliver a more "authentic" message.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 12, 2022

providing freshly packaged salads, heat-and-eat prepared meals and vegan overnight oats, raised $7 million in funding as it goes after the $34 billion fresh prepared foods market. Positive Food’s vertical integration technology is mainly done in-house, including production and a cold-chain logistics network. Positive Food Co.,

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This is my 4th market upset and in the first three I was defensive. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? We are extremely focused on these regions in our hunt for Unicorns in 2021. We intend to double down on investing in 2021 with 2 investments a week planned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2021

You need to listen to customers on how to tune existing products, but most existing customers actually fear change and avoid new technologies. While others like to minimize risks of all sorts, and bend an existing market, real success comes from defining a new market and new customers. Today’s world will continue to evolve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2021

By definition, true innovations are things we haven’t seen yet, but here are a few pricing alternatives that have contributed to the success of companies I know, and I recommend for evaluation by every business leader: Charging a premium for your technology innovation. Offering a lower price to penetrate the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2021

Investors expect a great return for their risk, so they look for people who can look beyond the technology and their own passion to see a customer need that perhaps even the rest of us haven’t yet envisioned. Creating and growing a business requires creativity beyond the product, in the areas of finance, marketing, and operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Every entrepreneur and every business I meet in my consulting and mentoring role has great intentions of bringing real innovation to the market, yet I find that most ideas are merely small extensions to existing solutions. Inventors are always talking about what they can do with technology, before sizing the need and the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

As a long-time business advisor, and an investor in startups along the way, I’m always on the lookout for an entrepreneur who is responding first to a problem in the marketplace , rather than bringing a new technology to the market, assuming it will find a problem to solve. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/24/2021.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here is my list of key principles for creating and capitalizing on a balanced focus as a business professional or an entrepreneur: Start by marketing your vision and purpose. Too many entrepreneurs I know start by highlighting their new technology , and assume that it will sell itself. Every balanced leader does marketing early.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2021

Fortunately KPMG had made investments in technology to make the transition to remote work as successful as possible. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? All of this will undoubtedly have a long term impact on how we view flexibility in the workplace going forward.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

TikTok is struggling to make a dent in the world of US and European ecommerce , and has now enlisted the help of a number of startups to try and reverse that trend and bring the Live Shopping craze sweeping Asia to other markets.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We are bridging the gap between casual, self service dating apps, and traditional matchmaking, and doing it for business professionals in the dating market. Right now, there are no real efficient products in the dating market. It was really incredible to me, that there was such a white space in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2021

If your passion is a new technology, make sure you understand how it fits into the existing social culture, the environment, and political realities. Act in the interests of expanding the total market. Sometimes, to scale the market you need drive expansion by co-opetition or fostering common platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We all need to be humble and recognize that what we need to know about technology and the market changes daily. While productivity is important, the bigger risk is not learning from customers and the market, and falling behind. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/09/2021.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2021

Look at the world as today’s global market. In this world of rapidly evolving technologies, as well as changing customer expectations, it is hard for anyone to keep up with all they need to know. It starts by not giving your company a name that means something totally offensive in some future important market.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. Watson, who holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has raised $4.5 Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low. .

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