socalTECH

JULY 28, 2020

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , the organization which creates competitions to help encourage the advancement of technology to solve some of the world's biggest challenges, says it has launched a new prize, aimed at the rapid testing issue with COVID-19. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. getting past the assistant. It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. how can you evaluate a good sales person? how do you know one when you see them? when to call.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

Some firms have said that they’re going to turn to HBCUvc , a nonprofit organization that helps students from historically Black colleges and universities enter venture and tech. We cannot make significant progress in advancing racial equity without long-term financial commitment,” Mujhid wrote.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 10, 2020

Organizers of the 2020 New York International Auto Show have postponed the event until August due to concerns about the COVID-19 outbreak. The New York Auto Show, which is organized by the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, was scheduled to begin April 10 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Stay organized. Many people confuse ‘organized’ with ‘neat.’ In fact, organized means a place for everything and everything in its place. Superficial relationships don’t help. The most valuable computer function in business is “cut and paste.” Build stronger relationships.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. There was no monetary reward for those who participated (and Startup Boost does not take fees or equity from the companies that we help).

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. It has made some 15 acquisitions in the last two years, including Boston Organics and EJ Food Distributor this year.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)? What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Kozlov, a longtime Techstars network fixture, has previously served as the head of the organization’s healthcare accelerator through a partnership with Cedars-Sinai and as the head of the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator, which was focused on space and aerospace startups. .

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Berkonomics

MARCH 1, 2018

I have repeated it often to boards deliberating action, to individual board members seeking to get their hands dirty inside the corporation by giving advice and helping at levels beneath the CEO, and to senior executives or managers as well. Now insert your position, no matter how low or high in the organization. I thought so.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2018

The Kremlin has run many classic military disinformation campaigns in the past--including in the Ukraine in 2014 , in Sweden in 2016 , and during the Cold War. New Knowledge said it identified the fake accounts behind the large-scale Russian effort to influence U.S. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Serverless technologies have gotten mature enough over the past two years that were building our entire company using serverless technologies.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

Monrovia, California-based Prolacta Bioscience , the venture-backed company which is turning donated breast milk into human milk fortifier for premature babies, reported this week that it has donated more than $1M to various charitable organizations over the past five years.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2020

There are several key performance indicators that help new generation company management see more clearly their progress and corporate health. You will recognize the value of these for any business, even if they have not been in common use in the past. Some of these are also applicable to non-Internet businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The largest and most successful businesses of the past have been traditionally driven by autocratic and powerful leaders who managed a highly structured organization of subordinates. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Given customers & sales are the lifeblood of any organization you’d imagine everybody would respect their customers. The entire dinner was a discussion of what it would take for our software to help this customer be successful, what he liked about it and where we needed to improve. You’d be very wrong. You can’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Only one-third make it past their tenth anniversary. For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and there are some good ones I will outline here. Join a startup incubator.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. On Tuesday, Miner spoke at a mobile software developer conference in Boston organized by Facebook, part of the city’s HUBweek festival. For “the past 75-plus years or so, we have.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2014

The Board should make it clear to the afflicted Founder that the goal of the intervention is to help him define an appropriate and constructive role in which his skills can be properly channeled and leveraged as the company moves through its maturation stages toward its ultimate exit. This step involves a heavy dose of tough love.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Professional angels, often organized into groups, usually invest from $100,000 to $1 million in a young enterprise. Many accelerators have come and gone during these past five years. Several are well-known and professional investors pay special attention to their graduates. These include Y-Combinator and TechStars, among others.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

LoveIt is a site for individuals and groups to discover, collect, organize and share images they love in public or private collections. The feedback primarily fell into three categories: better ways to discover new content, better organization tools and the option to have private collections. What is LoveIt and why the name?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options. Email readers, continue here.]

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote. (If And then bit by bit, we grew the organization. Have you worked with a talented individual or agency who helped you find and keep more users? What kind of clients are definitely not a good fit?

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. Over the next few months we will work closely with the team at MVF to ensure a successful transition as the organization continues to build Tech.Co Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co Most importantly, we like them.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

According to a recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Barkly, seven out of 10 organizations are reporting their security risk has significantly increased during the past 12 months.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 3, 2012

GraphDat helps streamline the process of maintaining quick and reliable server performance. The post Small Business Tools that help with Website Development and Content Sharing appeared first on TechZulu. SnapCrowd – Cloud storage to see media in real time on any device.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

But I don’t know it as well as the people who have negotiated terms in the past 18 months, which is all that is relevant. I will soon announce a few fundings (not yet closed, sorry) and I’m beginning to help them think about how to ramp up their engineering teams. So I connected her with two CEOs and a CFO.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

Ultimately, it will help them find a career, and help the world. I think if we, as Belkin, can find a way to help the communities where we are, where we are living, by helping students grow and helping them with the challenges they face, that's a natural thing with who we are and who we've become over the past 39 or so years.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. I love Notion, the self-service database tool that allows you to build, collect and organize all the structured things in your life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Actively seek out and attend key outside business conferences in order to meet and get to know people who can help you, and you can help in return. It never pays to approach new relationships with your favorite complaint, or your view of all the things wrong the world or your organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

I’ve talked before about the need to get rid of “ that negative chip on your shoulder ” as it won’t help you in business. And they take out that resentment against anybody else that may show signs of one of these past patterns. The 70% of entrepreneurs that simply can’t get past an un-responded-to email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Past Success? The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Radhika teaches entrepreneurship and innovation, and advises organizations around the world on how to build radical products that create a fundamental change instead of optimizing the status quo. Locked-in syndrome – do what worked in the past. Narcissus complex – look inward to see what helps.

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Berkonomics

MAY 20, 2021

So, this issue becomes one to be dealt with by every manager at every level of your organization. You will surely be able to identify an example of time bankruptcy that you have experienced in your past or present. The flip side of efficient time management. Now let’s make this personal to you.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Jon Grishpul: GreatBuildz is a free service, where we help homeowners find reliable, vetted general contractors, and provide support during the project. We use the same process he used for vetting his own contractors, and use that same system and process to help the clients of GreatBuildz. What is GreatBuildz? How are you funded?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

Perhaps this is a good time to speak about senior managers that are well-entrenched in the organization but are under-performers because the organization has passed their ability or span of control. An industrial psychologist helps (me) the CEO. How about senior managers no longer at speed?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2022

Great business leaders, including Richard Branson , who oversees over 400 companies controlled by the Virgin Group, believe that poor communication can and has cost large organizations millions or more per year. Focus on the future rather than rationalizing the past. Highlight collaboration with relevant groups and experts.

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