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SendGrid Rolls Application Load Testing Service

socalTECH

SendGrid , the developer of email delivery APIs and infrastructure which has major operations in Anaheim, said Thursday that it has launched a new, cloud-based service for load testing their applications and APIs. The firm said its new Loader.io The firm said its new Loader.io READ MORE>>.

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Elementary Robotics raises cash to expand in Los Angeles’ growing robotics hub

TechCrunch LA

Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company.

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Once again: Is it the jockey or the horse?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Although this debate will continue for ages, I tend to fall on the side of betting on the jockey, simply because it has been a rare business plan that did not change again and again seeking a successful model in the marketplace. I would not, nor would most all of those I co-invest with.

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Once again: Is it the jockey or the horse?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Although this debate will continue for ages, I tend to fall on the side of betting on the jockey, simply because it has been a rare business plan that did not change again and again seeking a successful model in the marketplace. I would not, nor would most all of those I co-invest with.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

Both Sides of the Table

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. But wait, does that make Launchpad LA an incubator now? There are at least 6 incubators now being set up in LA.

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Nimble Selected For Microsoft Accelerator

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based CRM software developer Nimble has been selected to join Microsoft's startup accelerator in Seattle, the company said today, in a major move which will help tie Nimble into Microsoft's ecosystem. READ MORE>>.

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Is it the jockey or the horse?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here.] Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise? Other times, the entrepreneur went on to assemble a great team and execute the plan as it inevitably changed again and again. I would not, nor would most all of those I co-invest with.