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Good Eggs raises $100M and plans to launch in Southern California

TechCrunch LA

Grocery delivery startup Good Eggs is announcing that it has raised $100 million in new funding, and that it’s planning to launch in Southern California in either the summer or fall of this year. “I think of [Southern California] not as one big region, but as several small sub-regions,” Hall said.

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Reflections On 2019: Andy Wilson, Alliance for SoCal Innovation

socalTECH

Today, we share the thoughts of Andy Wilson , Managing Director of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation (www.alliancesocal.org). While 2018 was all about better understanding the SoCal opportunity, 2019 was about honing our focus and defining our core programs. We'll be featuring contributions all through the holiday season.

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Competitive Intelligence

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 -- Competitive Intelligence: 007 Market Intel. PDMA SoCal. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to estimate market size, competitive market share, how many potential customers are there, and price points. It's Monday morning. He announces, "Let's build a gold-plated widget!"

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Four SoCal Startups That Thrived Despite--or Because Of--Economic Downturns

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However, if history is any lesson, downturns actually have created some of Southern California's most successful technology companies, whether through forcing those companies to swizzle their business models, by removing competition from the market, or even spurring customers to more readily adopt their products to save money.

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HipTraveler | Taking Startup Competitions by Storm

Tech Zulu Event

The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies. In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies.

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Wheels Enters Last Mile Transportation Fray With $37M

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The startup, which offers up dockless, electric bicycles to customers, said the funding round came from Tenaya Capital, Bullpen Capital, Crosscut Capital, 3L Capital, Naval Ravikant, and a number of strategic investors from the entertainment and sports communities. READ MORE>>.

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Virgin Galactic Gets FAA Launch Permit

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In another, big step this week for Southern California's startup space vehicle industry, Virgin Galactic , the Sir Richard Branson-backed effort to commercialize sub-orbital flight vehicles for space tourism, said Wednesday that it has been granted an experimental launch permit from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).