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Bird launches Scoot Mopeds in Austin ahead of SXSW

TechCrunch LA

Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework. The scooters upended bike share, and prompted companies to take some of their bikes off the streets due to lack of demand, according to several city officials who spoke to TechCrunch during SXSW 2019. But then scooters came en masse.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

Both Sides of the Table

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.

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Positioning for Uncertain Times

SoCal Tech Calendar

For new ventures, it can diminish hopes, defer rewards and demand movement along discomforting paths. Gain tools, frameworks and perspective to help you through the process. Gain tools, frameworks and perspective to help you through the process. Test your ideas with angel investors who may help in the process.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

Get an advisor to help supplement where there are gaps. By the way, do you know that most development teams use peer review of code to help ensure good development practices. Why Investors Should Demand This. I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer. Is this person a CTO or a developer?

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

And when you achieve product / market fit your company often ramps revenue very fast and you need to build an organization to address it from demand generation (aka marketing) to sales discovery to implementation and after-sales support. I’m going to set up the framework today and in future posts I’ll drill down into each area.

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

Tech Zulu Event

You’ve got some friends interested in helping out and you think you can make this work. Developers interact with the operating systems directly, build/use their own frameworks (eg, Django, Rails, etc), and consume server resources directly. However, this restricts the flexibility since they must work within the frameworks provided.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

The framework of the agreement is expected to include VW making an investment into Ford-backed autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI. Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework. The city recently launched a one-year dockless on-demand personal mobility program.