TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Fast forward to almost exactly one year later, and a lot has changed for the payments and software startup. Advisors Douglas Merritt, CEO of Splunk, and Mike Scarpelli, CFO of Snowflake, also made individual investments as angels. SpotOn is paying $415 million in cash and stock for the Los Angeles-based company.

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Technical Review Software Review Invest Acquisition 296

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2016

Los Angeles- and Berlin-based eKomi , a developer of software to solicit ratings and reviews from e-commerce customers, has added Anastassia Lauterbach to its board of directors. eKomi is led by Michael Ambros, and says it is headquartered in Berlin and Los Angeles with additional offices in London, Paris, and Madrid.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs. MakeSpace is building the exact same systems but in reverse.

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Technical Review Funding Software Review Artificial Inteligence 268

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Commit to a major customer.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

TechCrunch spoke to two customers who said the Mercedes-Benz’ connected car app was pulling in information from other accounts and not their own, allowing them to see other car owners’ names, recent activity, phone numbers, and more. The other customer said they did not attempt to test either feature.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2013

Los Angeles-based technology deals provider StackSocial has stacked up another technology publisher in its pile of customers, saying today that it has added tech publisher iPhoneinCanada.ca. offers up news, reviews, tips, and other information on iPhones. offers up news, reviews, tips, and other information on iPhones.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Tips 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. Currently, we have over a thousand customers, with customers ranging from anywhere from 100 employees to clients with more than a 100,000. In the past, we had been a one product company.

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Software Review SaaS Startup Technical Review 243

socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2014

George Collado: It''s employee management software. We use a SaaS model, and we work with hospitality companies, such as hotels, restaurants, food service, and we help track employee performance in real time. It''s too cumbersome, and most of the products are 360 reviews, corporate management type products, which are too expensive.

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Help Hermosa Beach Technical Review Redondo Beach 223

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In addition to being the startup entrepreneur, there are other key roles where Boomers can be a force in driving successful startups, in concert with leaders from Gen-X and Gen-Y: Early-stage angel investors. Manage customer service. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur Report 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Conflicting visions won’t work.

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Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 88

Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

This is not an article about the high moral purpose and the nobility of listening to your customers. It is an article about how to make your company worth a fortune by listening to your customers. It gives the best customer experience of any phone. Listen to your customers and grow rich. Why does Google dominate search?

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Customer Custom Software Review SaaS 97

TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

The process for retailers and brands to liquidate excess inventory hasn’t changed very much, if at all, and while some retailers were able to build operational infrastructure to service the off-price channels, it continues to be a constant pain point. to develop some sweet inventory-planning software. Syrup Tech bags $6.3M

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Product Funding Technical Review Equity 191

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Commit to a major customer.

Tips 104

Tips Startup Technical Review Equity 104

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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Artificial Inteligence Class Burbank Software Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse.

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. We''re very much a global footprint company, and we have customers from all over the world who fit that type of description.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

StartUp Beat

JULY 26, 2017

Broadband access in the US has come under both scrutiny and criticism recently with a lack of competition being blamed for sub-par services. Rural US has been at the heart of the discussion, but cities aren’t doing much better with nearly two thirds of the population of Los Angeles living in an area with only one provider.

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Software Review Technical Review Competition Statistics 40

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 128

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. Mike tells us about the company, who uses its software, as well as how he was initially turned away from the Amplify.LA

Startup 124

Startup Cornerstone OnDemand Software Review Woodland Hills 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I was sitting with the financing guy who was trying to upsell me everything from pre-paying service to prepaying dent repair coverage, etc. It’s taking company resources – usually funded by angels or VCs – for personal gain. . “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. But I digress.

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Conference Technical Review Truecar Software Review 398

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

In addition to being the startup entrepreneur, there are other key roles where Boomers can be a force in driving successful startups, in concert with leaders from Gen-X and Gen-Y: Early-stage angel investors. Manage customer service. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

Startup 124

Startup Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Conflicting visions won’t work.

Software Review 56

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development CTO Coach 56

socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2018

We proactively look for companies in the Los Angeles region, but we're opportunistic, and we'll look anywhere in the country or world. The industry, after 40 years of being fee-for-service, is moving into a value-based payments model. Those are all of the customers an early stage company might want.

Startup 113

Startup Technical Review Software Review Artificial Inteligence 113

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. Our customers tend to be mostly moms, but also some dads who support their families, uncles, aunts, and their friends, but primarily moms. We caught up with EcoMom CEO Jody Sherman , to learn more about the company.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Commit to a major customer.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 87

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For those who have never used Happy Returns, tell us how the service works? Customers heavily adopted in-person returns. We saw the steady stream of customers Nordstrom Rack was getting from HauteLook shoppers, and we realized that we could do that same thing with any retailer. HauteLook saw that very quickly.

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Training Customer Custom Software Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

Most of you new venture founders I meet as an angel investor seem convinced that starting the business is the hardest part. As the Global Customer Growth Evangelist at Salesforce, with implementation roles at many other companies, she makes a host of relevant observations for every business owner.

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Examples Customer Custom Software Review 67

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2013

There''s been a war brewing in Los Angeles, between a trio of ride services-- Lyft , Uber , Sidecar -- and the city''s taxi drivers--over a new generation of Internet-enabled and smartphone-friendly, connected rideshare services, versus what has been an old, opaque, and phone-driven taxi establishment. We''re focused on taxis.

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Startup Los Angeles Services Training 210

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Rob Reed: The position of MomentFeed, is that it is essentially a layer in the location based services stack. Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service?

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path. The process was nearly flawless.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now. October 5, 2012.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The Pasadena firm''s co-founders, Sean Lynch and Steve Curry , sat down with us to talk about the service.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Commit to a major customer.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Equity 105

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. You’ve built a great business, your customers love you. ” And in the same vein, neither is SeedInvests’ services.

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