socalTECH

JULY 12, 2012

The firm--which has recently been recruiting t-shirt graphic designers to help develop t-shirts for both men and women--is reportedly launching Thursday. crowdsourcing (think Threadless.com), competition (think American Idol), social networking (think Pinterest), and celebrity (think Shoedazzle.com)."

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

To put that into context; Affirm’s financial report in May projected it would process $8.04 While the company was profitable for its first 14 years of life, it has not been profitable the last two, according to Siemiatkowski, and that’s been by design. True competition is coming to this space, this decade,” he said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a classic book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Test your projections against actual published reports from similar companies.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

But while competition remains fierce, the advancement and accessibility of smart solutions are making it easy than ever for startups to find their feet. The free accounting platform can be used to create invoices and quotes, produce financial reports, view unpaid invoices, apply discounts and refunds, and encrypt your data. From its 4.3-inch

Tool 128

Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 128

socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2011

Thousand Oaks-based Xirrus , the developer of wireless access points, reported Tuesday that it has deployed its products at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. Xirrus, whose access points are designed for providing higher bandwidth and density of coverage, said the deployment covers approximately one million square feet.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2010

Irvine-based Masimo , a developer of medical pulse oximetry systems, reported today that it has settled a lawsuit with Hygia Health Services, which reprocesses used medical equipment. Terms of the settlement were confidential.

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Patents Competition Design Report 133

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Normally the best innovations come from the people on the front line, rather than a top manager or designer. As the pace of change in the marketplace increases, innovation is required at a faster pace in every organization, old and new, to stay competitive. Incent everyone on the team to be an innovator.

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Metrics Startup Organization Demand 102

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Theodore Schleifer at Recode reported a rare deep dive into the internal intrigue at a prominent VC firm, in this case Mithril Capital. When should you start a company? What company should you start? When should a VC invest?

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Their product suite, PREtect, contains 5 cyber risk management solutions designed to optimize the protection of data assets and the detection of malicious events by addressing the most common vulnerabilities in the enterprise. Panamplify is the reporting easy button for businesses. Panamplify (Dallas, TX).

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Platform Training 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

Normally the best innovations come from the people on the front line, rather than a top manager or designer. As the pace of change in the marketplace increases, innovation is required at a faster pace in every organization, old and new, to stay competitive. Incent everyone on the team to be an innovator.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Premium invitation cards and event stationary that is designed online for online distribution or paper print. Founded by Shawn Gold (ex-MySpace CMO).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

How to Interpret Analyst Reports. The stats are often quoted from the latest reports. Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. We all took that data as the basis for our reports. Stats sell. “Yes. Pretty much&#.

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Statistics Startup Report Research 415

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Brilliant web and iPhone app design. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2010

Together we would work out solutions in the form of new functions, new controls, new reports, and new safeguards. This insight came from personal experience and from a good friend who advanced the notion of the “teacher-customer” years ago.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Now, we''re looking at Southern California because there''s lots of talent in the area of design, and we also want to start targeting enterprises here who want to start sourcing products in Asia. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

The problem is that this is publicly available information that can and will be scanned by journalists and reported. I’m only reporting to you that many people do in fact delay their filing and I’ve spoken with lawyers about how to do this in a way that they feel is kosher. When you file, you must be prepared.

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Startup Funding News Press 355

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

How could Bird really be worth the reported $2 billion valuation that I read about in this press? That has allowed the company to launch in many markets, build amazing applications, design future versions of the scooter and monetize while many companies are still just drawing up their go-to-market plans.

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Companies like Cornea , Emergency Reporting , Zonehaven are trying to solve different facets of the fire problem; while flood prediction and weather monitoring startups are floating up their services too. Another $30 billion is designed to be targeted toward rural development; and finally the $40 billion in upgrading research infrastructure.

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

I’ve spoken positively about their design simplicity, their UX flow and their marketing prowess. Yes, the competition going forward will be strong. .&# It’s a market commentary, not a company commentary. I have always been impressed with GroupMe as anybody at TextPlus will tell you. There is no right or wrong answer.

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Company Companies Gogii Google 295

Tech.Co

AUGUST 22, 2017

That’s why I had a quick conversation with Christopher Adams, CEO of Levium , an all natural drink designed to reduce anxiety. Tech is a very competitive, macho environment in which anxiety is rarely understood and is usually perceived as a weakness. Those with anxiety feel a need to people please.

Technical Review 50

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2015

Fixed is not without competition, LA-based Cited launched last year and charges 20% of the cost of the ticket. Between the apps, Cited and Fixed ticket dismissal rates have been reported at anywhere between 20-80%, but it is still early in the game and LA parking enforcement policies have come under review for illegal practices.

Los Angeles 40

Los Angeles Angel Software Review Seed Funding 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a recent book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Test your projections against actual published reports from similar companies.

Sales 97

Sales Customer Custom Outsource 97

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

At the tender age of 15, Tanz teamed up with his friend Michael Schneider (the CEO of MobileRoadie ), to create the design firm Fluid Design. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” from Carnegie Mellon University. News, Gannett, and Tribune. “We

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need? Accounting?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a recent book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Test your projections against actual published reports from similar companies.

Sales 98

Sales Customer Custom Outsource 98

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

I don't know if you're familiar with LucidEra, a company in this area which shut down earlier this year, but we're different in that their application is designed for five executives in a company. We're different, as our application is designed not just for executive management, but for users. They had to pull the plug.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

The way we go about that is different than the competition. You''ll see the crash reports, so you know there is a problem, and you can even send a notification to all of your users to make them aware of that bug, and maybe give them 200 gold coins in a game to make up for that bug. We also hae a designer in Chicago.

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Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In most instances, small companies do not have the financial wherewithal to bludgeon the competition and establish market share through brute force. A runner who has no chance of winning the race is designated as the rabbit and is instructed to set a very fast initial pace.

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Competition Education Technology Entrepreneur 164

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2015

Alibaba reported $9.3 A well-designed program creates a win-win situation. Beat The Competition. Some observers are equating Prime Day with “Christmas in July,” and Amazon surely hopes to create an annual event, akin to Alibaba’s Singles’ Day in China, which offers deep, sitewide discounts every year on November 11.

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Sales Social Media Competition Entertainment 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer.

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Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. new features need to go into the sale people’s slides so that they know the latest and greatest about how to differentiate from the competition. Still, I believe I’m offering an accurate representation of the ideal configuration of the main technology leaders.

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CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. A report projecting a sector will achieve $70 billion in revenue by 2014 will make you look like an amateur. Focus on your designated market area instead.

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Writing Summary Ideas Research 97

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Evernote office image courtesy of Design Milk via Pinterest. Employees who work for big companies don’t have the opportunity to report directly to the president or CEO. Between cutbacks and competition from other potential employees, landing that dream job – or any going for that matter – is a bit of a challenge.

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Startup Social Media Writing Google 102

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

looks to keep gamers on their toes with fast combat and new level designs. After a couple of (losing) rounds, the game improved upon level design and the fighting mechanics. Attendees were treated to 20 characters to choose and beat senselessly, while more than 30 characters are reported to show up in the final game.

IP 77

IP Startup Design Training 77

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

MW: The process of configuring reports is much more suited for laptop/desktop situation. But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. If its got a reporting interface, we are interested in ‘Cojoining’ it.

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Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

BUT … I’ve talked to a number of eCommerce sites that also report much higher conversion rates than standard web. I think it’s a beautifully designed product that is also tremendously useful and focused. Use that as a source of competition. They are limited in size. I also love Batch.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334