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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

in a Series A financing, to go towards its social and mobile platforms for athletic training. Edufii''s app lets coaches, teachers, and athletes capture and annotate training and coaching sessions. smartphone mobile social athlete coach training athletic funding capital venture edufii' Edufii is led by Spencer Dennis.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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JUNE 27, 2018

InvolveSoft has created a platform which helps employees contribute to the community, by helping them find volunteer events, with a focus on a company streamline corporate engagement, team activities, volunteering, leadership & training, and diversity & inclusion. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Mindflash.com , an online training platform site headed by former Mint.com Chief Marketing Officer Donna Wells, said this week that it has officially launched its online trianing platform. The firm says it is targeting small businesses, and offers a way to help those businesses provide employee training.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2020

Los Angeles-based streaming media distribution and immersive training technology provider IntelliMedia Networks has acquired Canadian company GlobalMLX , the companies said this week. IntelliMedia Networks said the acquisition will help it extend its cloud-based training platform. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When most people think of training , the first thing that comes to mind is a mandatory meeting in a stuffy conference room with a boring instructor walking through poorly designed slides. The good news is there's a better way -- and it can usually be accomplished with the same amount of time and resources as a "stand and deliver" training.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The company said it will offer up comprehensive training aimed at helping empower sales, marketing, eCommerce, and customer experience teams using it platform. The company said the new program is free.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Irvine-based Kajabi , which develops a platform that helps both individuals, as well as small- and mid-sized businesses monetize online courses, training materials, and other content, has receive an investment from private equity investor Spectrum Equity. Financial details of the minority growth investment were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The app, which offers fitness content and AI-powered training plans tailored to individual users, initially focused on Germany but has since grown in popularity across Europe and in the U.S. ” Tonal launches at-home digital strength-training system. for one month or $74.99 for a year-long membership.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 29, 2019

When ProGuides pulled the covers off of its service earlier this year, the young Los Angeles-based startup intended to give gamers a way to train with professional and semi-pro esports players from around the world. “After we launched the beta, we found some interesting user behavior,” says Sam Wang.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Content Recommendations in Streaming Services While many streaming platforms suggest content based on viewing history, LLMs have the power to significantly elevate this experience. Moreover, LLMs come equipped with an extensive knowledge base derived from the vast amounts of data they've been trained on.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

That is why they qualify customers really hard and ask the sort of questions that would make us non-sales-trained people squeamish. Great sales leaders know that you can only sell effectively when your sales cycle matches the customers buying cycle. Actually within a certain margin you can bring sales forward slightly.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

San Luis Obispo-based software company Off Day Trainer , which operates a remote training and communications software platform for fitness professionals to communicate with their clients, has linked with fellow San Luis Obispo-based Mindbody , the company announced this morning.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

“One of the things we’re doing as a company is moving into sports-specific training,” says Speck. “We have diverse training plans that fulfill and serve people who are just getting to the gym to people who are college students playing football helping them get to the next level.” per month or $83.99

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2021

Along with the funding, the company said it has acquired Lessonly, a developer of sales training, coaching, and enablement software which is based in Indianapolis. The company said the new funding will be used to continue expanding Seismic's platform, R&D, and global footprint. Financial details of that acquisition were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

The funds will be used to build out its platform, hire beyond its 27-person workforce and expand its service area. Terry said they have also hired their core team of seven employees and trained their first tranche of technicians. Everyone picked to go through training is paid a stipend and earn two safety licenses.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2020

Virgin Galacti said the deal will not only allow the company to use its spaceflight platform, but also offer its space training infrastructure to NASA and other agencies. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. Virgin Galactic is led by CEO George Whitesides. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface. One of them is Movio , a two-year-old startup leveraging generative AI along with other machine learning frameworks like GAN to make videos featuring talking human avatars.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

According to Shopify, it has set up a location at the ROW DTLA in downtown Los Angeles, where it will provide in-person help, support, and training for merchants on its software platform.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 28, 2019

The company also partners with cities and transportation authorities, giving clients access to their platform to deploy their own shuttles. For instance, Austin’s Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority uses the Via platform to power the city’s Pickup service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

This new definition applies equally to brick-and-mortar stores, as well as online platforms. An oversight or deficiency on any platform can easily cancel all other positives, and be hard to overcome. Reward team members who excel in these relationships, and provide training and processes for others. Inflexible processes.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 9, 2019

Doctours , a Los Angeles-based online platform for booking trips and treatments for medical and dental care around the world, is expanding its services to 35 countries. Roughly 70% of the company’s doctors were trained at universities and medical schools in Europe or the U.S., O’Shaughnessy wrote in an email.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. What's the story behind Deal Current?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Via also partners with cities and transportation authorities, giving clients access to their platform to deploy their own shuttles. Austin’s Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority also uses the Via platform to power the city’s Pickup service.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In the centerpiece of his education platform , Trump would redirect $20 billion in federal education spending to K-12 school choice programs. The plan also includes training 50,000 teachers to teach computer science and to update their knowledge frequently. schools don’t do now.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2017

AT&T --which has been ramping its operations and presence in the tech world in Los Angeles--said today that it is unveiling a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform called Acumos. The new, open-source platform is aimed at enabling programmers and researchers to more easily develop machine learning and AI software.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2017

Playa Vista-based virtual reality content developer SPACES announced on Wednesday that it has added Ian Richter, the former EVP of franchise and emerging platform development at Legendary Entertainment, and Joe Garlington, formerly of Walt Disney Imagineering, to its advisory board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

These and other collaborative communication platforms, such as Slack, have absorbed many former manager responsibilities, including scheduling, summarizing, and follow-up. In summary, I am supportive of the trend toward delayering, reducing the number of managerial layers, and managerial training for those interested in that role.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Redlands-based geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping tools developer Esri has linked up with another company, BuildingFootprintUSA , the help improve the "geocoding" of locations within its ArcGIS platform.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

Fullerton-based Digsy has rolled out a new, sales software platform specifically aimed at helping commercial real estate brokers better manage their sales teams. The company said it has users at such companies as CBRE, JLL, Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers International, NAI Capital, Sandler Sales Training and others. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based HyreCar , which operates a car sharing marketplace, said today that it is in a strategic partnership with DriveItAway , a car dealership company that offers up turn-key software, insurance, and training to help car dealerships aimed at the ridesharing market get off the ground.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2015

The startup offers up its webcasting platform specifically for corporate communications, training, and collaboration, and says its customers include Abbott Laboratories, ConocoPhillips, Ericsson, Facebook, General Motors, EY, Mattress Firm and UL. MediaPlatform is led by Jim McGovern.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2015

Santa Monica-based talent management software developer Cornerstone OnDemand has launched two new products this morning, including a new predictive analytics dashboard and a cloud platform aimed at developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team.

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