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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

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Mark Harris is back with new details on Uber’s autonomous vehicle technology program. The upshot: Uber was spending $20 million a month to develop self-driving technologies. This investment would give Uber ATG a valuation of between $5 billion and $10 billion, WSJ reported. billion investment in 2018.

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

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The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. We manufacturer our equipment here in the San Fernando Valley, but we're also shipping our equipment to Asia and Europe.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

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.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Technology innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum. And sci-fi writers are but one example of the way society impacts technology. Today there’s many.