socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2022

Culver City-based Parallel Systems, a startup developing autonomous train and transportation technology, said today that it has raised $49.55M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Anthos Capital, and also included Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures and Embark Ventures. The company is led by CEO Matt Soule.

Training

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2022

Los Angeles-based GigXR, a developer of mixed reality simulation training for the healthcare industry, says it has received a strategic investment and partnership with a subsidiary of Northwest Permanente P.C. Northwest is a physicial-led multispecialty group practice. Financial details of the investment were not announced.

Training

L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

billion in quarterly revenue, also said it's working to upgrade its policies and training to prevent harassment. The gaming giant, which posted in $2.3

Activision

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I recently found the classic sales training book “ Bootstrap Selling The Sandler Way ,” by Bill Morrison, who has 20 years in sales leadership roles, and I was amazed at how many of his sales lessons are great lessons for new entrepreneurs as well.

Sales

L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 14, 2021

million contract with the Defense Department to expand development of its training products for the Air Force. Venice-based virtual reality software company Specular Theory Inc. secured a $4.5

Outsource Development

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.

Coach

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.

Training

Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2018

Accountants are trained, certified and usually quite experienced in financial analysis, both creating and reviewing data. Bookkeepers are often trained on the job although sometimes more formally and handle the physical work of accounting for the transactions. The lesson here is twofold.

Metrics

Berkonomics

MAY 3, 2018

Many executives and managers have made the mistake of using the financial and sales forecast to plan and execute hiring of new employees – so that they could be trained and up to speed when the demand arrives. The balance between preparedness and cost. Although hiring early does add to overhead by bringing employees aboard before they.

Training

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

Terry said they have also hired their core team of seven employees and trained their first tranche of technicians. Of those, 20 were picked to go through training and 18 were ultimately hired to service contracts across six states, including California, Oregon, Washington, New York and Texas. Hiring approach.

Incubator

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

Training

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. We focused together on improving our sales methodology, our training and our comp plans through a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel. Train them, arm them with a great product and sales collateral.

Sales

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

“There is no training. ” Ironic that an article purporting to uncover a company with no training would publish pseudo journalism about the Uber experience. .” ” Ironic that an article purporting to uncover a company with no training would publish pseudo journalism about the Uber experience.

Press

Berkonomics

JANUARY 19, 2017

After an initial focus perhaps during an introductory meeting or training session, the salespeople hit the road. Consider a sales relationship where your product will be in the bag of salespeople from the partner company. Which brings us back to senior management and the original reason such a partnership was created in the first place.

Press

TechCrunch LA

JULY 9, 2019

There is an increasingly advantageous global marketplace available with highly trained practitioners offering quality healthcare solutions at affordable prices and, although medical and dental tourism is a safe and cost-efficient solution, the current market is extremely fragmented and challenging to navigate.

Custom

Berkonomics

MARCH 7, 2024

Accountants are trained, certified and usually quite experienced in financial analysis, both creating and reviewing data. Bookkeepers are often trained on the job although sometimes more formally and handle the physical work of accounting for the transactions. First, let’s be sure we define our terms. The lesson here is twofold.

Metrics

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

But having somebody in-house means they can do many things like help with website copy, running events, writing training manuals and even handling customer support calls. Get media training - One of the most useful exercises I did with a major agency was “media training” where they taught me how to do interviews & how to handle TV.

Press

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.

Coach

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

When he was 7-8 my wife used to sit down with him to do homework and train him the importance of getting it done early and well. ” Great sales people are trained to “ask for the order.” And yet how eye opening it was that you could have almost anything you wanted. If you just asked. Fast forward. My son Jacob.

Sales

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. You don’t have enough hours in a day, or trained people, to succeed with lower margins in a services startup. Capture your “secret sauce.” Don’t let your service be viewed as a commodity.

Startup

Berkonomics

MAY 25, 2017

Train and transfer technology to each new distributor within 90 days of signing. Each distributor should be capable of generating $1 million in business by year two. Assign our development manager to localize design and oversee the needed enhancements to our product and support materials for each new territory.

Resource

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

After hiring someone with all the attendant enthusiasm followed by the training and learning curve, if an employee shows signs of weakness in the job or problems dealing with contemporaries, it is the natural tendency for most of us to go first into coaching mode, and reset the observation clock to see if our excellent coaching does the job.

Coach

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

“ When a restaurant signs up to become a fulfillment partner, we’re vetting them and training them on what they need to do to … We’re guiding them to become fulfillment partners for these concepts. There’s a whole bunch of training that happens. Then there’s secret shopping and review monitoring to monitor quality.”

Funding

socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

Thinkful , a New York company, says it has started accepting applications from people in Los Angeles for its "living stipend" program, which pays students $1500 a month to pay for things like rent, gas, and food while they take the company's technology training--in exchange for a portion of their salaries when they graduate.

Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are my recommendations for training and managing your team to keep their delivery memorable for customers, as well as profitable for your business: Hire team members who enjoy customer interaction. Provide training, tools, and required decision authority. That approach still is meaningful today.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

He later closed more than 8,000 of his stores for a day to provide employee racial-bias training. They provide ongoing motivation by recognizing and rewarding effort, and the training to do the job right. Take a positive and active role in the execution. Of course, talking and giving orders is no substitute for doing.

Training

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In addition to his experience as an angel investor, Kelly served in the US Army as a Military Intelligence Officer and completed Airborne and Ranger training, and graduated from West Point and UCLA. Kelly is a longtime angel investor in such companies as Scopely, Bitium, UStream, Thrively,� and many others.

Capital

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Bad design was further reinforced through a decade+ of building apps in a Windows era where we technologists were trained by the ever expanding menu options in every Microsoft product. They came in just to eat the best you have on offer from a limited menu so they can enjoy themselves, not stress out, and get back to their lives.

Product

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2020

Train yourself to follow leadership best practices. These elements include giving clear direction, providing tools and training to the right people, getting out of the way, walking your own talk, and reflecting regularly on the big picture. Try it – you may find and train that great boss you never had. Marty Zwilling.

Tips

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

The proposal sets out four big initiatives, including zero-emissions vehicle manufacturing, assembly and adoption; zero-emissions infrastructure investments; commitments to public transit investments; workforce development; and job training.

Southern California

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I came across this kick-starter page from baller-in-training Trevor Owens. A few years ago I headed out to China for a few weeks on a tech tour. I timed it to be there with my pals Dave McClure and Christine Lu. It really made me laugh and I loved his hustle. For me this is the antithesis of baller on a budget.

Conference

Berkonomics

JANUARY 18, 2018

And since attorneys are paid to protect, often they will give a litany of warnings about what could go wrong when accepting a contract clause that they have been trained to challenge.

Outsource Development

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 1, 2019

There are other opportunities for engagement: coding classes for public school students, scholarship opportunities for state and community college students and training programs for those interested in switching careers.

Boyle Heights

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2021

In fact, our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side, even though we were all born without that bias. There is a tough balance here to achieve, since a large portion of starting and running a business requires analytical, logical thinking. You cannot will a new idea.

Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Start with only the very best people, demand excellence, and train them to stay ahead of the pack. Team members must act intuitively, based on training and motivation. Intuition is nothing more than the outcome of previous training and experience. Tindell’s mantra is that one great person is equal to three good people.

Training

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The most effective people to execute strategic initiatives are likely ones who have recently led similar activities in multiple related environments, not ones who have been grown and trained inside. Projects need not be constrained by organizational boundaries, long-term budgeting, or conventional staffing and training practices.

Demand