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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

socalTECH

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Spencer Price: That's a fair question. Spencer Price: It's a bit of a circuitous route. What is Halla?

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following. Make sure your solution is defensible and unique.

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Interview with Eugene Cho, Echo Laboratories

socalTECH

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. We got a very large international order, and we found the demand on this was exceptional, not only here in the U.S., There are typically two types of microscopes.

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Interview with Eugene Cho, Echo

socalTECH

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. We got a very large international order, and we found the demand on this was exceptional, not only here in the U.S., There are typically two types of microscopes.

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Interview with Asher Hunt, Overnight

socalTECH

By that time, I had figured out the cadence of pricing for hotel rooms, and had been traveling back and forth between LA and San Francisco for three or four days each week. Plus, prices were starting at $180. So do you this a lot of this is driven by a generation shifting to more of an on-demand, Uber-style lifestyle?

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Health Care Reform - What It Can Mean for Small Business

Tech Coast Venture Network

That's because employees who are facing individual fines for not having insurance will, in many cases, choose to buy it at the workplace, thereby increasing demand. As a consequence, small businesses should be able to get competitive insurance plans and better pricing. What if a business can't afford employee health care?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. He built & IPOd Demand Media. And here is your moment of zen … the full deck with many additional slides. An abbreviated version of this post appeared yesterday on TechCrunch. Tell a friend.