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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

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An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

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It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market. Photo Credit – Photo of Jamie Oliver from filming of “Food Revolution” in Santa Monica as posted on Flickr.

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Everything You Need to Know About Hyperloop

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The company, along with its partners at PreistmanGoode also released the design for its passenger Hyperloop capsule at the London Design Festival. Former SpaceX rocket designer Brogan BamBrogan was one of the initial cofounders of Hyperloop One. ET3 is an open consortium of licensees around Evacuated Tube Transportation.

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Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding

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Santa-Monica based Tapiture has grown in traffic by 300%, monetized from year one and raised $2.25 The curated design and photography-driven entertainment site is where GIFs and memes intermingle with stunning photography, video and the ability to purchase in app. million in seed funding since its founding in 2012.

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Bio Roundup: CAR-T & Migraine Races, Intra-Cellular, Rockefeller & More

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TOP STORIES : —Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE ) released data from an ongoing non-hodgkin lymphoma trial that, while early, bolster the view that the Santa Monica, CA, company could be the first to market with a cell-based immunotherapy product known as CAR-T. TheStreet.com has more here. Phase 3 trials should start next year.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. She focused on her customer.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. We have a contest for people to design what the case will look like, and we're using Fundable to raise $10,000 to give to the winner. Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this?

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