TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2021

By contrast, the company’s Hawaii projects provide system-level capacity and frequency regulation and the California program with Southern California Edison, provide demand-response capacity for baseload energy management and overall load growth in the area where they’re operating.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. SoCal tech and life science companies are scaling faster than at any point in history. Prior to the L.A.

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APRIL 25, 2018

Lynwood, California-based NEXT Trucking , which operates an online marketplace which connects carriers to shippers, says it is planning a big hiring push in Southern California, after a big $21M funding round from Sequoia Capital.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Goleta-based AutoVitals , which develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for the automotive repair and maintenance software business, has raised a round of private equity, the company recently announced, from private equity investor Tritium Partners.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In one of the biggest acquisitions out of Southern California's technology startup industry in recent years, Los Angeles-based Honey Science Corporation , which develops a savings discovery and price tracking tool, has been acquired by PayPal , in a deal worth approximately $4 billion.

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JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. Those brands have pretty good products. Wayne Slavin: That's a good question. What's your background?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

You can listen to the entire conversation above or via this link , but I also wanted to highlight one topic we discussed that I feel strongly about, which is how I think enterprise sales and venture fundraising are basically the same muscle. And again, just like in enterprise sales, this is all about differentiation ?—?what

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

An effort by Citrix Systems to sell itself to a buyer has a possibility of some major impact on Southern California, particularly at Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online. GoToMeeting, GoToAssist, GoToMyPC, and other related products are all run out of the Santa Barbara, Citrix Online business. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 21, 2019

The startup said funding in the round came from Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, several un-named, Southern California family funds, as well as board members and angel investors. Michael Smallwood is the founder and CEO of Bitmo. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 30, 2016

According to the two, Rambus will pay $90M in cash for the business, acquiring product inventory, customer contracts, supply chain agreements and intellectual property. It's unclear how that sale will impact the company's Southern California operations. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

Technocel said its new 60,000 square foot building will accommodate 250 employees in marketing, product development, and sales at its brands, which include TYLT,Random Order, and Jellyfish. The company also said it will provide prototyping, 3D modeling and assembly for TYLT Lab. Technocel is led by Rami Rostami.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Another Southern California-based ecommerce retailer is reporting that it had record breaking sales over the weekend, the traditional kickoff to the holiday buying season. City of Industry-based Newegg, which sells electronics and related items, said that Black Friday was the firm's biggest sales day, ever. READ MORE>>

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JULY 26, 2017

Los Angeles-based Global Eagle Entertainment , a developer of in-flight entertainment products and provider of broadband Internet services, has called off a $416M majority investment deal from Chinese company HNA Group , after the U.S. refused to approve the transaction.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

It looks like holiday shopping season has officially launched, at least for electronic e-commerce retailer NewEgg , which said Thursday that it has launched its "Black November" deals, offering up sales on popular products such as laptop, ultrabooks, tablets, televisions, cameras, computer components and video games.

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MARCH 15, 2013

Network router and wireless equipment provider Linksys , which has been part of Cisco since 2003, is now back in Southern California hands, after Playa Vista-based computer accessory maker Belkin said it has completed its acquisition of the company. Cisco and Belkin agreed to the sale in January. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. In sales we often call these USPs (I wrote about them here: Unique Selling Propositions ).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. That leads naturally to a resistance to change and inability to willingly move to replace your own product with something new that will kill its revenues. First, in the. By 1975, there were only two.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Andrew Schydlowsky: We work with manufacturers of products, things you might use, the clothes you might wear, things you use around the house, things you use in the car, and what you buy in stores, and are now buying online. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels. How are you able to do all this?

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Data science is now available to any and every size business in Southern California.   We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.   Don't sell out the human.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 7, 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010 -- Traction in Sales. Traction in Sales is the Game Today! And you wont be until you generate a sales and marketing machine to demonstrate real traction and the ability to sell your products and services. Funded yet?

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JULY 24, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Cox Communications - Orange County - Looking for Product Marketing Manager. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. A Stanford alum, Aaron wrote the book on sales 2.0.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Thursday, January 17, 2013 -- Infographics: Visual Storytelling to Attract Prospects and Close Sales. Infographics unleash powerful visual storytelling tools that will help you reach new prospects and increase sales. Technology Council. In today's over-communicated world, information is everywhere. See [link] (more)

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MARCH 14, 2012

Irvine-based Diverse Solutions , the developer of products to help real estate agents market their businesses and websites, which was acquired by Zillow last November, have gained a fun new employee perk from their acquisition: an annual "Ski Day". READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Thursday, October 4, 2012 -- Predictable Revenue: Getting To Your First Million In Sales. In this class, Aaron Ross the creator of Salesforce.com's $100M outbound sales team will talk about how to create predictable revenues for your company and hit your first million in sales. ve sold something. See [link] (more)

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Southern California-based NewEgg is an over $2 billion in sales retailer of computer products, consumer electronics, and other merchandise. The offer--which rapidly sold out this morning--apparently caused lots of issues for prospective buyers, according to widespread Twitter messages.

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NewEgg Google Southern California City of Industry 150

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. NastyGal -- which was just about unheard of a year ago -- has rocketed to a over $100M business, driven by women's clothing, shoes, and other products. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara.

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JUNE 28, 2010

According to an announcement by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the iPhone 4, which became available to consumers throughout Southern California and elsewhere on Thursday, was the "most successful product launch in Apple's history". Tags: apple iphone4 iphone sales computer.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Laurence Sostky: We have an interesting product that we've created over here, which is a specialized part of Fintech. When you film a picture, there are lots of state, city, counties, and other jurisdictions that want to move your film production to their locale, because it spurs the economy. WE spoke with Laurence about the startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most products out there suck so mom gets stuck with angst of wanting to have decorations, activities and chatzkies for other kids to take home. So as Kara, Soleil and I debated the future we realized we’d have to fund the company to build out its product lines to drive more repeat consumption. Along came Seedling.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The firm has largely flown under the radar, but it has been investing in startups applying innovations in automation, artificial intelligence, computer vision, computational biology, material sciences and robotics to industrial products and processes for the past two years.

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Los Angeles Artificial Inteligence Invest Angel 126

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It's a new world out there for online marketers--users aren't just on their PC anymore, they're surfing the web, buying products, and using services across their tablet(s), desktops, and smartphone. So, how do marketers figure out if you're the same person to better target their ads?

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Any interruption in service can have drastic effects on productivity, customer service, and on your bottom line. Telecommunications service providers in Southern California face a unique set of circumstances and challenges which may not be apparent to providers that are not headquartered here or are unfamiliar with the SoCal landscape.

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Services Southern California Alhambra Technical Review 64

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

The firm said it is looking to partner with resellers, integrators, and IT consulting firms to offer the Nirvanix cloud storage offerings--including its Storage Delivery Network and CloudNAS products--to end customers. Tags: nirvanix cloud storage data channel sales. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

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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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

The most obvious, is to drive sales. We also wanted access to development resources, and we have our product team here, the engineers and designers, all based in Santa Monica. However, our approach is a whole new product category, part of the marketing cloud. For us, the funding was because we have so much opportunity.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

We talked with Richard about NordicEye's $30M fund, its interests in Los Angeles, and why a Nordic venture capital firm has its eyes on Southern California's technology startups. We saw hyper growth in their revenues, adoption of the product, in users and growth, and that actaully caught the eye of several publicly traded companies.

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