TechCrunch LA

MAY 2, 2018

The massage-on-demand service Soothe seems to be rubbing investors the right way with the close of a new $31 million round of funding. The Series C round from late stage and growth capital investment firm, The Riverside Company , caps a busy first quarter for the massage service.

Demand

L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 12, 2021

Zwift has raised a total of $620 million. The company plans to use this funding to further develop its app as well as Zwift-branded hardware, which it sells online.

Demand

L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 30, 2020

Chief Executive Chris Vaughn, the signs pointing to a spike in demand for the company's alcohol delivery app came well ahead of the stay-at-home order. For Saucey Inc.

Demand

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Mayor Karen Bass says Los Angeles — not a state agency — should have the power to decide how robotaxi companies expand in the city. The impact of the mayor's calls may extend well beyond LA. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Los Angeles

TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

By popular demand, Round 6 introduces a plaintext test that uses HTTP pipelining, implemented in 14 frameworks so far. Also in response to popular demand, we ran the plaintext test with higher client-side concurrency levels than other tests. Previously, the most fundamental test was JSON serialization of a very small object.

Framework

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2022

Many entrepreneurs, especially women, gravitate to entrepreneurship because they see it as the way to balance work and family demands. Be realistic about what brings happiness to you. That could mean they are forgoing happiness on the business side. Some men want a family relationship, but the business is what makes them happy.

Demand

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A positive result of being a recognized category expert is that it gives you the credibility to broaden demand and start new trends, instead of waiting for outside influencers and other customers. Naturally, you then get the lion's share of that increase in demand. Customization – convince me it was made-for-me.

Demand

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2019

Too busy to bother with a visit to the dentist? A new, Los Angeles startup, Dentulu , is hoping to make it easier for you to handle dental care--saying it wants to allow patients to book a dental appointment much like they might book a ride on Uber.

Demand

L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 2, 2020

Southern California’s demand for electric vehicle industry skilled workers will continue to grow, further pushing up salaries and filling local training classrooms, according to a new report.

Training

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In more continuing turmoil at Twitter, new owner Elon Musk is reportedly ending the ability to work remotely at the social media company, and is demanding employees put in "at least" 40 hours in person at the office each week. The report--from Bloomberg--said that the new rules kick in immediately.

Demand

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. The fuel for any good demand generation program is relevant, buyer-centric content. Demand generation revenue performance.

Marketing

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Postmates is now rolling out what could be the biggest update to the company’s service in a long time — adding a retail option for users to shop local stores and for local merchants to set up a virtual on-demand storefront in the app. As case counts spike in the U.S. In fact, the online analytics service eMarketer projected a 10.5%

Sales

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

But where traditional insurance companies have struggled to acquire the acumen needed to accommodate the growing demand for cybersecurity insurance, startups like At-Bay have filled the space. At-Bay was founded in 2016 by Rotem Iram and Roman Itskovich, and is headquartered in Mountain View.

Startup

TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2014

Yes, on-demand capacity and all the usual upsides of cloud deployments are real. Spoiler: I feel bad for our workstations. Incidentally, if you think $8,000 is not cheap, you might want to run the monthly numbers on 200 virtual server instances.

EC2

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2021

The New York virtual power plant differs from other initiatives from Swell in that it provides available capacity to specific distribution circuits on the grid to reduce customer demand on circuits during network overload periods, according to a Swell spokesperson.

Southern California

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

an on-demand repair app for electric vehicle charging stations, has seen these issues firsthand. Demand for ChargerHelp’s service has attracted customers and investors. While ChargerHelp is couched as an on-demand repair app, it is also acts as a preventative maintenance service for its customers. Powering up.

Incubator

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

There could be more demand for electric vehicles post COVID-19 crisis, believes Energica founder Livia Cevolini. One of those is greater demand for EVs after the pandemic. Before the health crisis shutdown most of Italy, Energica had already seen larger demand for its high-performance e-motos, with a price range of $17,000 to $23,000.

Technical Review

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

KFC had originally launched a one-day test to gauge consumer demand at a location in Atlanta last August. The response in Atlanta continues to underscore the growing consumer demand for high-quality, delicious plant-based meats. Kentucky Fried Chicken goes beyond chicken in partnership with Beyond Meat.

Yahoo

TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2018

In startup-land, however, the presumptions about where housing demand is going looks a bit different. And housing shortages in major cities indicate there’s plenty of demand for non-Airbnb options. About two-thirds of new homes being built in the U.S. Collectively, those three companies have raised about $300 million to date.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

You want it G-ddamn now and you demand it now and you demand the perfection out of Amazon and in a very Nicolsonesque way you want people with guns guarding walls and you don’t want to know about it behind the scenes. How could you expect this to occur in a laissez-faire culture? ” No.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Interestingly, that demand has grown a lot during the pandemic, with demand for new homes as much as four times higher than demand for buying “existing” homes. ” That subsequently has put more of an emphasis on the sale of older homes to meet demand.

Sales

TechCrunch LA

JULY 2, 2020

Specifically addressing some LA-based companies we can share with you the trends we see directly with demand data: We already knew that telemedicine made sense for doctors and patients and now this trend has accelerated, regulations being lessened and cultural barriers overcome.

Los Angeles

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

In the words of my friend and a CEO with whom I work, “Yeah, I know I need to make some cuts because our demand has changed, but I want to do this with a scalpel and not with an axe.” He showed industries where demand was likely to hold strong and he outlined a case for how he could protect as many jobs as possible.

Demand

Berkonomics

MAY 3, 2018

Many executives and managers have made the mistake of using the financial and sales forecast to plan and execute hiring of new employees – so that they could be trained and up to speed when the demand arrives. The balance between preparedness and cost. Although hiring early does add to overhead by bringing employees aboard before they.

Training

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The first concern stemmed from the financial investors that typically finance these projects demanding that developers pay closer attention to low-carbon or no-carbon real estate developments. And finally, the customers who rent and buy space among real estate developers had their own demands around decarbonization, Wallace said.

Funding

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2018

.” The initiative, which Bird is encouraging other scooter-sharing services like LimeBike, Mobike, Ofo and Spin to join, includes a commitment to collect vehicles every night; reposition them to meet demand in the mornings; provide regular maintenance; and only add capacity when every vehicle in a fleet is used three times per day.

Santa Monica

TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

A little over a year after its graduation from Y Combinator’s demo day, the on-demand construction materials delivery service Curri is beginning to offer its services in all 50 states. ” After graduating from Y Combinator in the summer of 2019, the company tested its services in the Southern California region.

Services

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. Demand represents a buyer and supply a seller. Some products are “inelastic” meaning when prices go up demand doesn’t fall much (think cigarettes, alcohol or even illicit drugs). goes into a startup.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Among the features that the company intends to roll out as it expands is a dynamic pricing capability that will enable manufacturers to wring the most out of their goods when they’re in high demand. LA’s consumer goods rental service, Joymode, sells to the NYC retail investment firm, XRC Labs.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

In Canada, INKSmith , a startup that was making design and tech tools accessible for kids, has now moved to making face shields and is hiring up to 100 new employees to meet demand. “I After that, we’re going to meet the demands of Canada,” INKSmith CEO Jeremy Hedges told the Canadian news outlet Global News.

Company

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

“We wanted to have a very good consumer experience out of the gate and use the demand to inform whether we should officially partner with those brands,” founder and CEO Lee Hnetinka told TechCrunch. Hnetinka, you may remember, founded WunWun back in 2012 to provide on-demand delivery for stores and businesses.

Product

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

Now companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are competing for their business as more companies wake up to the pressures and demands for more flexible technology architectures.

Hollywood

Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

Create a hosted “software as a service” or “on demand” addition to our product line by end of (next) year. Expand into at least three new continents through new distribution channels. Penetrate the Fortune 500 with at least five active accounts within two years.

Organization

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 19, 2019

The island city-state has been building up its EV infrastructure to meet anticipated demand as ride-hailing drivers and commercial fleets switch to electric vehicles. Singapore has been promoting the use of electric vehicles, particularly for car-sharing and ride-hailing platforms.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2021

Zeb Evans: Holistically, there's a huge demand for more flexibility or remote work. The demand is there, we've certainly seen that. We see a lot of people in engineering demanding the flexibility to work remotely. It's been quite a year and a half with this pandemic. What's your read of what's going on in the workplace today?

Doc

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 10, 2020

“By networking these individual homes and businesses into virtual power plants, Swell is able to bring down the cost of ownership for its customers and help utilities manage demand across their electric grids,” said Khan. “By

Development

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. Higher demand results in higher prices – if there is limited supply. Or, with or without limits on supply, higher demand results in greater revenues, satisfying the “I” in the formula. Email readers, continue here…] D=Decrease costs.

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