AllVoices Harassment Reporting App Raises $3 Million
L.A. Business Journal
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
AllVoices, an app that enables employees to anonymously report harassment and other workplace issues, raised $3 million in seed funding.
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SpaceX reportedly looking to build Starship rockets at Port of LA
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 30, 2020
CNBC reported that these discussions were confirmed by Port of LA officials. CNBC’s report cites LA City Councilman Joe Buscaino as saying that SpaceX might seek to be up and running with at least a temporary production facility in as little as 90 days, though no deal is yet finalized between the parties.
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Grindr sold by Chinese owner after US raised national security concerns
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 6, 2020
Reuters reports that the Chinese company sold its 98% stake in Grindr to a U.S.-based Last year, it was reported that while under Chinese ownership, Grindr allowed engineers in Beijing access to the personal data of millions of U.S. based company, San Vicente Acquisition Partners. That ownership was later scrutinized by a U.S.
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A security flaw in Grindr let anyone easily hijack user accounts
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Wassime Bouimadaghene , a French security researcher, found the vulnerability and reported the issue to Grindr. The reported issue has been fixed. Last year, it was reported that while under Chinese ownership, Grindr allowed engineers in Beijing access to the personal data of millions of U.S.
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Report: Is Elon Musk Overloaded?
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
A report by Wired says that Elon Musk Is Overloaded, with the recent purchase and obsession with Twitter threatening Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, and Neuralink. Has the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, for $44 billion, put the rest of his companies at risk?
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Fitness App FitOn Reports 200% Increase in Users
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 20, 2020
Century City-based FitOn Inc. is trying to turn the phone into a pocket-sized gym.
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Startup San Diego 2023 Impact Report is Here!
Startup San Diego
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The 2023 Startup San Diego Impact Report is here! We welcomed Lisa Barnhouse as the 3rd Executive Director for […] The post Startup San Diego 2023 Impact Report is Here! 2023 was a celebratory and monumental year for Startup San Diego. appeared first on Startup San Diego.
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SpaceX to build its massive BFR in Los Angeles
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 17, 2018
The mayor of Los Angeles confirmed earlier reports that SpaceX will build its largest rocket, the BFR, at the Port of Los Angeles. There were widespread reports that the company was looking to drastically expand its operations at the location. This announcement confirms those reports.
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Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2014
.” The most recent was 18 months ago or so called The Kauffman Report. It had an influence on the people who fund our industry in a negative way as many asset managers who fund our industry read this flawed report. That’s a shame because many of these people missed out on what will be a few great VC vintages.
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Tetra Tech Reports Record Fiscal Year Earnings, Wins Part of $110M Contract
L.A. Business Journal
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
the largest engineering and infrastructure services firm in Los Angeles County now that AECOM has departed for Dallas — reported record fiscal 2021 earnings on Nov. Pasadena-based Tetra Tech Inc. —
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Accounting: What kind of bean counter do you need?
Berkonomics
JANUARY 25, 2018
Many early stage founders and CEO’s believe they can delegate design and creation of metrics, flash reports, analytical reports and more from their bookkeepers. And at some early stages, a bookkeeper can prepare such information. On the other hand, many early stage CEO’s are not trained and ready for such tools even if available.
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Startup San Diego Quarterly Tech Report: #CES2024, SD Startups, Cutting-Edge AI & XR Breakthroughs
Startup San Diego
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The Startup San Diego quarterly tech report featured a conversation between Cheryl Goodman, Vice Chair of Startup San Diego, and Vishal Shah, GM of XR & Metaverse at Lenovo.
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Startup San Diego Tech Report Episode 2 Wrap Up: MWC, SXSW, & CPG AI Glow-up
Startup San Diego
MARCH 27, 2024
The second episode of the Startup San Diego Tech report featured a conversation between Cheryl Goodman, Vice Chair of Startup San Diego, and Bryan Landers, AI Product Designer at Zapier. […] The post Startup San Diego Tech Report Episode 2 Wrap Up: MWC, SXSW, & CPG AI Glow-up appeared first on Startup San Diego.
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TikTok Parent Walks Away From Oracle, Walmart Deal
L.A. Business Journal
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
ByteDance has reportedly abandoned plans to sell TikTok's U.S. operations to Oracle and Walmart.
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Framework Benchmarks Round 20
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
sebastienros reports that Stephen Toub posted an excellent blog containing detail on all the performance improvements in.NET 5. sagenschneider reports that OfficeFloor's new use of asynchronous programming in its inversion of coupling control has enabled using reactive libraries such as R2DBC.
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LA’s Electric Vehicle Talent Pool Is Driving Industry Changes
L.A. Business Journal
MARCH 2, 2020
Southern California’s demand for electric vehicle industry skilled workers will continue to grow, further pushing up salaries and filling local training classrooms, according to a new report.
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The top 10 cities for $100M VC rounds in 2018 so far
TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 10, 2018
Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. These numbers are based off of reported data in Crunchbase, exclude private equity rounds and do not account for deals that may have already been closed but haven’t been publicly announced yet. Jason Rowley. Contributor. More posts by this contributor.
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SSD Tech Report: Covering MWC, SXSW, and a Startup CPG AI “Glow-Up”
Startup San Diego
MARCH 20, 2024
In 2024, MWC rebounded to […] The post SSD Tech Report: Covering MWC, SXSW, and a Startup CPG AI “Glow-Up” appeared first on Startup San Diego. MWC 2024: More AI than APIakeaways that will touch consumers The Mobile World Congress (MWC) stands as the premier event for the mobile telecommunications sector.
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Elon Musk moved to Texas
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 8, 2020
His remarks confirmed a CNBC report that Musk had told friends of his intent to move to Texas. Bloomberg reported Monday that Musk had moved his foundation to Austin, another signal that he had or was about to make the jump to Texas. Musk confirmed the move during an interview at the The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council annual summit.
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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 21, 2021
When asked in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter , co-CEO Ted Sarandos didn’t say whether he would meet the group’s demands. I want to say that we are deeply committed to inclusion on screen and behind the camera and in our workplace,” Sarandos told the Hollywood Reporter. brb walking out.
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Kim Kardashian becomes a private equity dealmaker in collab with ex-Carlyle partner
TechCrunch LA
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Kardashian is launching private equity firm SKKY Partners in conjunction with ex-Carlyle consumer head Jay Sammons to invest in business across consumer products, hospitality, luxury, digital commerce and media, the Wall Street Journal first reported. Jenner will be joining SKKY as a partner, the Journal reported.
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LA tech industry mourns Kobe Bryant
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 26, 2020
Reports indicate that Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, and seven other passengers were on board a helicopter traveling to Bryant’s basketball training facility Mamba Academy. billion investment vehicle that was launched in partnership with the private equity fund, Permira, according to a report in USA Today.
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Hire a consultant; ignore the advice.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
[Email readers, continue here…] On the final day of our assignment, I was responsible for the “reporting out” to the assembled twenty or so executives in the large conference room of this major corporation. I imagine that our report sits today on someone’s shelf, filed with others from past and from following months and years.
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Be Respected More Than Loved
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 16, 2014
Of if your VP Sales isn’t complaining about marketing she’s trying to get the function reporting to her. They review competitors offerings and analyst reports. It’s easier to create strange job titles so that nobody feels slighted than to agree clear reporting lines, roles & responsibilities.
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Please learn this: “Noses in; fingers out!”
Berkonomics
MARCH 1, 2018
Many of us have someone who reports directly to us and who supervises others in return. Once a person of higher authority reaches beyond their direct report in an organization, especially without the approval of that direct report, incurable damage will have been done to that person’s ability to manage. I thought so.
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Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 16, 2021
At that time, TechCrunch reported that Squarespace was a profitable company, with revenues increasing 50% in the prior year, to about $300 million. But it is perhaps best known for its epic 2017-era $200 million secondary round that General Atlantic financed. That round was raised at a $1.5 billion pre-money valuation.
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One million HTTP RPS without load balancing is easy
TechEmpower
MARCH 4, 2014
It''s possible even higher numbers would be reported had we tested a purpose-built static web server such as nginx. Nevertheless, achieving a million HTTP requests per second over a network without pipelining to a single server says something about the capacity of modern hardware. It just happens to be quite quick at HTTP.
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Is AECOM on the Block?
L.A. Business Journal
JANUARY 24, 2020
Century City-based engineering giant AECOM reportedly has been in possible buyout talks with Montreal-based engineering services firm WSP Global Inc.
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Startup Metrics
TechEmpower
JULY 31, 2023
Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools. Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Don’t worry about scaling just yet. If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital.
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Startup San Diego Tech Report – Ep 4: What to expect for San Diego Startup Week 2024, San Diego Tech Happenings & AI Book Launch
Startup San Diego
JULY 25, 2024
Conference season is among us here in sunny San Diego, and we’re excited to have local tech journalists Fred Grier and Lisa Barnhouse, Executive Director at Startup San Diego, join […] The post Startup San Diego Tech Report – Ep 4: What to expect for San Diego Startup Week 2024, San Diego Tech Happenings & AI Book Launch appeared first (..)
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Stamps.com Profit Plunges After Ending Postal Service Partnership
L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 7, 2019
In its first quarterly earnings report since terminating the agreement, Stamps.com posted a net income of $14 million, down 69% from $45.5 million this time last year.
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Nike debuts its most ambitious SNKRS stash drop for the Championship Tour featuring Kendrick Lamar and SZA
TechCrunch LA
MAY 13, 2018
Once the shoes did go on sale, the user interface for finding and reserving the shoes didn’t work for everyone there — in fact, only one reporter from the group was able to reserve a pair of the shoes (since that reporter hadn’t saved payment information onto the SNKRS app, those shoes were released).
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Do you really need an accountant?
Berkonomics
MARCH 7, 2024
[Email readers, continue here…] Many early-stage founders and CEOs believe they can delegate design and creation of metrics, flash reports, analytical reports and more from their bookkeepers. And at some early stages, a bookkeeper can prepare such information. The lesson here is twofold.
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What do you wish you’d known yesterday?
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Here’s the question: Wouldn’t it be great if there were no more digital or printed reports to tell us what happened in the past? Call it “pervasive access” or just–in–time reporting. If there were no reports, we would have to manage by exception, more by observation than by analysis. Let’s give it a name.
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Sneaker culture staple GOAT hits $1.75 billion valuation on new $100 million round
TechCrunch LA
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
But the no-longer nascent sneaker and streetwear market is a big market, with the potential to reach $30 billion in sales globally by 2030, according to a recent report by the research firm, Cowen ( cited by The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the financing).
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MSBAI Snags $1M Contract From USAF
socalTECH
JULY 20, 2021
Los Angeles-based startup MSBAI, which is developing artificial intelligence tools for assisting in engineering reports it has received a $1M US Air Force grant.
Frameworks Round 6
TechEmpower
JULY 2, 2013
The wrk benchmark tool reports a peak of approximately 95 megabytes per second transfer rate with pipelining and 35 megabytes per second without. HTTP pipelining is the star of the new plaintext test. With pipelining enabled, the capacity of gigabit Ethernet is much more efficiently used as compared to plain HTTP Keep-alives.
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521 Framework Benchmarks Round 9
TechEmpower
MAY 1, 2014
The NUMA architecture presented a variety of challenges including unexpected difficulty scaling the database servers to utilize all available CPU cores. For example, we are using MySQL 5.5 in our database tests, but later versions of MySQL are reportedly better suited for NUMA.
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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 22, 2018
Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.
Have you set your life and business goals?
Berkonomics
APRIL 27, 2017
For business goals, your employees and investors will appreciate constant attention to the goal and reports of progress toward it. Unlike your vision, which can’t be measured, there is a satisfaction in each step toward achievement of your goal. A goal serves as a rallying point for all associated with your vision.
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TuSimple Sends Fully Autonomous Semi 80 Miles, Without A Human On Board
socalTECH
JANUARY 3, 2022
San Diego-based autonomous driving company TuSimple reports that it has sent its first, fully autonomous semi--without even a safety driver in the truck--80 miles, going from Tucson, Arizona to Phoenix.
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Do you tell someone “WHY” along with “WHAT?”
Berkonomics
AUGUST 19, 2021
Empowering your direct reports with the reasons for your orders gives them incentive to act, motivation to accept authority, and purpose behind action. He lamented the fact that his boss recently layered several more sales reports on him to complete each week, reducing his selling efficiency.
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