socalTECH
JANUARY 30, 2018
Los Angeles-based on-demand, dog walking startup Wag has raised an enormous, $300M funding round, the company announced Tuesday morning. Wag--founded in 2015 by Joshua and Jonathan Viner--says its services are now available in more than 100 cities nationwide. Wag said the funding comes from SoftBank Vision Fund. and Knight Ridder.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Sekur.me , a new Santa Ana-based startup, has come up with a new app and service to use your cell phone for payment, bypassing the complexity of shopping carts. Explain what your service/app is all about? Where are you in terms of launch, and what inspired you to start up the company?
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Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 14, 2022
That challenge is a major business opportunity, as well as a risk, for startups. There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 billion, now providing identity theft services for nearly 80 million users around the globe. Don’t take shortcuts on these. Have you looked hard at the potential?
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. OTHER DEALS: 1.
socalTECH
MAY 8, 2013
Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. So, if you''re a cloud storage provider, how do you get to the next level in terms of your service and company? Raghu Kulkami: We are an online backup storage and sync service. Raghu Kulkami: There are many services.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). To learn more, we caught up with Steve. How have you managed to get so many of them to use your services?
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 4, 2017
In addition, there is a real business opportunity here for startups. There are others, like LifeLock , recently acquired by Symantec for $2.3 billion, now providing identity theft services for more than 4 million consumers in all 50 states. Don’t take shortcuts on these. Have you looked hard at the potential?
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