TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

to date, the company said that it saw an 188% growth in annual recurring revenue compared to a year ago, with more than 25,000 individuals in 2,000 salons and spas in the country now using its platform. Focusing on the U.S. trillion, and the spa sector passing $150 billion, both by 2025. “As

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? Here’s what’s going through his/her head: Is this story “newsworthy” or am I being asked to publish a press release? ” Can you imagine that ever getting inches in the press?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 20, 2011

What will be the hot games and gaming platforms in 2011 and beyond? How can you stay ahead in an increasingly competitive marketplace? Tuesday, April 26, 2011 -- LA Games Conference. What trends will be shaping the games industry? See [link] (more)

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Competition. And the reality is that if you have no competition it will likely be perceived as a negative, not positive. And the reality is that if you have no competition it will likely be perceived as a negative, not positive. Here’s some thoughts on the competition slide and also how to talk about it: Competition.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 31, 2014

On Sunday, March 2 nd at USC, these rivals took their battle to a new platform: startups. The competition started early February with a voting and crowdfunding portion as several teams from both schools gathered votes from fans on the host crowdfunding platform. All in all, 100% worth the effort that went into it.”.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

In order to do that, what we did is instead of focusing on the front end apps, we worked on developing our own, back end unified communications platform, which gives us a the ability to offer telephony and text messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing. It is a competitive environment. Bryan Hertz: That's a good question.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Unit Economics Accelerating One topic I heard a lot in investor circles last year and in the press a lot was that there weren’t good unit economics and therefore the scooter market was never going to perform well. They also were exclusive to Bird so they gave the company a competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

However, for an entire generation of employees�particularly, those coming out of school now�saving for retirement is completely overshadowed by the far more pressing, crushing burden of student debt. Brendon McQueen: The idea behind the platform, is that over 70 percent of college graduates today have college loans. billion dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

The golden rules to live by are: Platforms are channels not businesses. If you put all of your eggs into one platform shame on you, not them. Actually, I wouldn’t consider all of them “group messaging” companies but ever since SxSW that seems to be what the press wants to talk about. It’s why we all exist. Don’t confuse the two.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2019

If you listen primarily to the popular press, you could easily be convinced that all successful startup businesses are built by one smart person, such as Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, or Jeff Bezos at Amazon. Often the lowest level customer-facing team members have a better idea of trends and competitive alternatives in the marketplace.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. The Importance of Twitter. That is what I Tweeted when I saw DataSift present as a finalist at TC Disrupt last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Are you going to do all of this? You have too much on your plate.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Crowd Gathers for San Diego Tech Coast Angels “Quick Pitch” Competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Curation is obviously also a form of competitive advantage for companies like StitchFix, TrunkClub and DailyLook who offer stylists to help you curate your clothing experiences. from Charter’s subscribers. even a DTC company?—?if

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Concentrate your efforts on two to three platforms to start. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Above all, don’t forget to observe your competition and their social media activity. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Further, as the competition amongst web stores continues to increase, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to grab one’s parts of their desired market. Utilize Popular Social Media Platforms. Typically, these platforms charge their clients per 1000 views or per click onto their advertisement.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. For highlighting what is uniquely LA, for adhering to a strict quality standard for speakers and for building this great platform for the future Francisco Dao (aka “ The Man ”) should feel proud of what he has accomplished.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. million users making it considerably larger than some of its peers that have historically received more tech press inches. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Provides an enterprise collaboration and storage platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Small Business, Big Impact,” will also offer training to help owners take their companies to the next competitive level. · Building A New Business Model For High Impact Businesses. Over the next 3 years, Bluedrop will provide a free, country-wide training platform for up to 30,000 vulnerable people in Jordan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Customers Include: Reuters, Associated Press, , Dow Jones, Ask.com , healthcare companies, and major investment banks and hedge funds. iAd platform was formally launches in July 2010 as part of iOS 4. FTC is considering an investigation into Apple’s anti-competitive practices. Competitors: InformationBuilders , DataWatch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2012

So the most obvious pivot for them is to repurpose the technology platform, to make it solve a more pressing, more marketable, or just a more solvable problem as you learn from customers. Adaptation and dealing with chaos is the key to survival for a startup, and your best competitive edge over large companies. Technology pivot.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I recently read this anecdote in the press (withholding company name because I actually really love the concept). I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my operations team telling me it was too hard for them to run analytics unless we built in our new BI platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2010

So the most obvious pivot for them is to repurpose the technology platform, to make it solve a more pressing, more marketable, or just a more solvable problem as you learn from customers. Adaptation and dealing with chaos is the key to survival for a startup, and your best competitive edge over large companies. Technology pivot.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

It is a communication platform. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. AngelList has introduced new competition and competition in any industry is always good.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Despite the growing competition, Philips Hue light bulbs are still the kings of all smart, Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs. Simply press the light or group of lights to turn on or off, or long press for a color wheel. These color-changing wonders will literally transform your home, and all you need to do is screw in a light bulb.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

All the confusion you hear from friends or read in the press is related to this nuance that early investors demand prorata rights and sometimes fight like hell to maintain them (Facebook problem) and sometimes prefer not to take them (overvalued company that they perceive isn’t doing as well as new investors coming in think).

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

She explains Freestyle VC’s specific “no competition” investment policy with active decisions to bypass investments that compete with companies in their portfolio. Despite bad press (Silk Road, Mt Gox, etc.) Trading platforms. Platforms for contributing Bitcoin to political and charitable causes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. Not what you read in the press. Press the flesh. We tend to be more excited about things that we read in the press and/or articles being forwarded to us by our peers. REAL information. Everybody is.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Why Invest? Chat-based Communications.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? What are your next goals?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

pitch and technology competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row. investors look through press, do not use it to explain current traction. So when I heard about Women 2.0

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand. So, I put him in charge of our data centers and technical operations.

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