socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based Worth Network, a new software startup, is aiming to help marketers reach more consumers via organic Instagram posts, the company said today. The company says it has built software that identifies a brand's best customers on social media and converts them to marketers by paying them to post organic Instagram stories.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2018

Buena Park-based Rael , a developer of feminine hygiene products, has raised $2.1M Thrive Market Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of Los Angeles-based organic grocery and products company Thrive Market , which has recently been making investments in companies related to its organic food and products.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When the Los Angeles-based startup Maslo launched its first product in early 2018 , the company was focused on a direct-to-consumer tool designed to encourage mindfulness and self-awareness through a machine learning enabled avatar that would respond to individual’s inputs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2020

San Jose-based PayPal Holdings said this morning that it has completed its $4 billion cash acquisition of Los Angeles-based Honey , the developer of a browser plug-in that helps consumers find the best coupons for purchases when they are shopping online. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The B-Corp status is meant to reduce investor suits, and gives consumers an easy way to spot genuine social commitment, without assuming it is a non-profit. Some customers and stakeholders don’t just prefer that an organization is socially responsible, but insist on dealing only with these startups.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Dominating business-to-consumer sales, Amazon seems ready to take over the world of business-to-business too. These drivers have become the destination for their spaces like Amazon with consumer products, Aetna with healthcare needs, and USAA for life events. – Add complementary and possibly competitor products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

In the classic book by Christoph Lueneburger, “ A Culture Of Purpose ,” he details how to build this new culture, and why it is becoming more instrumental in bringing about success, as well as sustainability, in organizations as diverse as Unilever and Walmart. They also tend to stay longer with the organization, reducing costs.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

And one fast fashion retail startup is teaching its tailors and seamstresses how to make cloth masks for consumer protection. Endless West announced this morning that it would shift production away from its distillery to begin making hand sanitizers. The second is clinical trials and the third is production.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers. This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 14, 2013

As a newfound Dad Blogger and experienced marketer, I’ve begun offering a great new service that has been greeted by the Mommy Blogger community with great interest and the manufacturers of great products have responded equally well. My ability to recognize truly excellent products will guide me down this path.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

PayPal said the acquisition will help it in its efforts in digital commerce, and add an "extensive" set of consumer commerce capabilities to the company. PayPal said that the acquisition will "transform the shopping experience" for its consumers and also increase sales and customer engagement for its merchants.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2019

Irvine-based Good Culture , an organic cottage cheese brand, said last week that it has raised $8M in a funding round, which included investments from General Mills (via its 301 Inc. arm) as well as Almanac Insights and CAVU Venture Partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In addition, consumers have traditionally been reluctant to share personal information with any non-human entity, fearing some misuse or privacy invasion. Seven Lessons in Business Strategy, Consumer Behavior, and the Internet of Things ,” David W. Context-comfortable consumers – 27 percent. Reluctant consumers – 44 percent.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Papaya currently facilitates payments for “hundreds of thousands” of businesses and organizations and millions of users in the U.S. It’s hoping to build on its existing technology with an extensive product roadmap. So far, its growth has been “completely organic,” with no marketing team, according to the CEO. ”

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As investors continue pouring funding into artificial intelligence and consumer habits shift, many AI and subscription model startups have been enjoying rapid growth. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Los Angeles-based e-commerce provider Honest Company , which sells organic baby and beauty products, is looking to replace CEO Brian Lee with a veteran of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) market, according to a report.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Appetize will go to market as SpotOn and will work to grow its client base, which already includes an impressive list of companies and organizations including Live Nation, LSU, Dodger Stadium and Urban Air. . SpotOn will now have over 500 employees on its product and technology team, according to co-founder and co-CEO Zach Hyman.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Los Angeles-based Grind Banking , a new fintech startup, says it is looking to cater to the needs of African American consumers, as well as other underserved communities, with its new products. The startup says it will offer up FDIC insured debit accounts, and a mobile banking app specifically aimed at the African American community.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

For him, the conundrum for consumers looking to buy cannabis products was similar to the dilemma in-home diners faced when choosing what to eat. In the modern weed world (at least in places where marijuana is legal), consumers are so spoiled for choice they often go with a default option.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

Paiji wanted to cut back on her plastic consumption, and reduce her contribution to the overabundance of plastic waste in the environment, but felt that as a consumer she didn’t have a choice. So the former venture capital investor from the consumer startup brand studio Launch set out to create one.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2013

9 times out of 10, they use an AT&T product to do so. When it comes to innovation at AT&T, few organizations capture the idea of “rethinking possible” the way the 140-year-old organization does. The post Innovation Crush | Lessons Learned from AT&T Consumer Innovations appeared first on TechZulu.

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Tech.Co

MAY 18, 2017

The Clipper Corporation is a global distributor and supplier for the food service and consumer products industry. Direct Relief is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that provides medical assistance to people around the world who have been affected by poverty, natural disasters, and civil unrest. HATCHBEAUTY Products, LLC.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Turn on your phone and look at the productivity folder. Because we’ll probably default to the organized chaos of the native iOS/Android notepad anyway. You’ll be more productive within three weeks time. For the unfamiliar, Fetchnotes has devised a beautifully efficient method in note organization. Their claim?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Bill’s rationale was the more serious your business was, the more you could afford to pay for placement and therefore the more likely it was for consumers. Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers. billion – not a bad result, hey?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

In the classic book by Christoph Lueneburger, “ A Culture Of Purpose ,” he details how to build this new culture, and why it is becoming more instrumental in bringing about success, as well as sustainability, in organizations as diverse as Unilever and Walmart. They also tend to stay longer with the organization, reducing costs.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. This presented MomentFeed with an immense opportunity to help multi-location consumer brands meet the challenges brought on by an overnight shift in consumer shopping patterns.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

What we are pursuing actively, is creating a curated, merchandising and transaction platform, which takes inventory from dealers so that consumers see a wide swath of inventory, all prioritized around value. We're really focused on the consumer getting the right car at the right price.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Michele Ruiz: BiasSync provides a solution for companies, state and federal agencies, school districts, and organizations to assess and manage unconscious bias in the workplace. You have to have at least fifty people in an organization, because the reason is we provide anonymized, aggregated data. My background is in consumer software.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges? We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. just to name a few!

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

Our interview today is with Steve Malony, the CEO of Belkin International (www.belkin.com), the consumer electronics and accessories giant which is based in Playa Del Rey (and soon is moving to El Segundo). I'm fortunate to be surrounded by a lot of great people in our organization to help me. Thanks!

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2020

As it looks to continue along its path of developing clinically validated digital therapeutics for consumer and clinical mental health and wellness, Headspace has bulked up its executive team with the addition of longtime Intuit executive, CeCe Morken.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Thus entrepreneurs were able to build prototypes and design new products without the traditional huge prototyping cost. The movement has long since spread across the country and across the globe, spawning innovative products such as the MakerBot Digitizer and all the things you can access from Thingiverse.com. Diversity breeds success.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2018

In recent years, Los Angeles has become the capital of subscription, consumer-focused "box" businesses, where consumers sign up for monthly deliveries based on a subscription. We wanted to make it easy to buy cruelty-free and nontoxic beauty and skincare products. We're a little different from the sample size products out there.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. 110,000 to quit developing games for wearable apps. 2 million raised. 2 million raised.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2023

A UVP sells a product or service because it differentiates it from other products or services that are available. With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people. Build word-of-mouth into your product or service.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Futuredontics is the consumer marketing division, and inside that is Dentistry.com. It turns out, too few consumers are going to the dentist today. Dentists have always been slow to migrate and adopt to new technologies on how they interact with consumers, and we are giving them that vehicle. What is Dentistry.com?

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