socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Boulder Electric Vehicles , a startup developing electric powered has shut down its production facility in Chatsworth, as the company looks for a buyer. Boulder Electric Vehicles had been developing medium- and light-duty electric trucks, aimed at the corporate and municial market READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2013

It all looked good at the time: oil company Exxon needed to develop a more earth-friendly way to produce oil, and San Diego startup Synthetic Genomics needed funding to get its technology off the ground. But then, ExxonMobil cut back its original investment--worth up to $600M--in Synthetic Genomics. What happened? READ MORE>>.

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Layoffs Outsource Development San Diego Mobile 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

The simple answer is that we all have to start thinking like entrepreneurs, rather than entitled employees. Start tracking your costs as well as income elements. Don’t wait for your next company layoff to get you started. Entrepreneurial thinking is all about being proactive, rather than wait to be pushed.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Social Media Training 96

Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the start of the pandemic, reliance on in-home data usage spiked by up to 18 percent compared to pre-pandemic times, and average daily data usage rates exceeded 16.6GB. While these levels were mostly caused by the shift to telework and teleschool, the popularity of working remotely will likely continue. .

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Networking Layoffs Customer Custom 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term. In my experience, even in startups, longer-term strategy often gets pushed off the agenda due to current challenges.

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Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally. He started the call by telling me he had exciting news. He had 2 weeks’ cash left in the bank and was facing massive layoffs or potentially bankruptcy. Many entrepreneurs have a PR page in the PowerPoint deck.

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Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

MediaLab said it has “some ideas” for developing Kik going forwards, including making the app faster and reducing the amount of unwanted messages and spam bots. Heyward was an early star of the budding Los Angeles startup community with the launch of the anonymous messaging service, Whisper nearly 8 years ago.

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Social Network Los Angeles Social Media Blogging 153

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Paul Kedrosky made the case for “naive optimism&# being an important part of startup success. I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. It was developed from a different angle.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Fred Lee, the University of Wisconsin Radiologist With Startup Vision. Ben Fidler chronicles the rise of New York’s life sciences scene, from startups and investors to universities and nonprofits. Layoffs Reflect New Turbulence at High-Flying 3D Robotics. The Xconversation: Vaccine Developer Meets Energy Innovator.

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Artificial Inteligence Layoffs Report Startup 40

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Later authors have refined this definition to include a company’s character, its deeply entrenched perspective that influences the way that organization develops new ideas, weighs options, and responds to changes in its environment. There has never been a layoff nor a labor shutdown in their history. Lifetime employment is implicit.

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Organization Training Layoffs Journal 89

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2010

So let me start with an apology. By the next day I usually try to clean up some of the typos but usually try to leave the content intact. In defending myself in the comments section I started to settle on a slightly revised POV. He talks about why he’s not bothered about job hoppers when it comes to hiring developers.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

The week started on a reflective note. And hellos: Third Rock Ventures brought in a well-traveled biotech veteran, Steven Holtzman , to run its hearing-loss startup Decibel Therapeutics. Our San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow penned a personal goodbye to entrepreneur Larry Bock, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.

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News Technical Review San Diego Startup 40

Xconomy

JANUARY 25, 2019

After guiding the CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing startup from scientific breakthrough toward the development of a potential cutting-edge medicine, slogging victoriously through a legendary patent fight , and reaching the cusp of an historic clinical trial , the well-traveled Bosley is cutting out, the company said Tuesday.

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