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APRIL 12, 2021

Two startups won a total of $25,000 in prizes last week at the Sunstone Innovations Challenge at CSULB, a startup pitch competition involving student teams from CSU Long Beach.

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Long Beach Seed Funding Startup Competition 113

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Sweep is in a very competitive market--there's already cutthroat competition among independent contractors who go "Bird hunting", being paid to charge scooters and return them to designated spot in the morning. Sweep says it already has operations in Long Beach, Denver, Detroit, Washinton, D.C.,

Long Beach 133

Long Beach Santa Monica Competition Demand 133

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: I'm actually a Kiwi, a New Zealander, and all of our product and marketing is done out of New Zealand. It wasn't long after that I ended up in the U.S., We're working from Manhattan Beach and Long Beach, and we've found that Southern California is really friendly.

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Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

And, because there are many companies in Long Beach and sourcing operations here, it really made sense to open up operations in Southern California. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition. We opened up an office in Shanghai, and we have marketing in Hangzhou. Getting the talent is an issue.

Southern California 170

Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

FreeConferenceCall.com is a Long Beach company which was founded by David Erickson. Toll free numbers don''t make any sense anymore, particularly when fifty to sixty percent of people are on cell phones with unlimited long distance, and it really makes no difference to them or not if it''s toll free or not. How is that?

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Conference Startup Networking Services 100