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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. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. www.science-inc.com).

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DECEMBER 26, 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. What was the biggest news for your firm in 2018? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. Happy Holidays!

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Conroy was on the board of Sotheby's from 2016 to 2019, and also had served as MGM's President of Digital from 2016-2018, Univision's Chief Strategy and Data Officer from 2009-2016, and AOLs EVP for Product and Marketing from 2001-2008. Acquicent is led by founder and CEO Anthony Citrano.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The meat processor and marketer invested in Beyond Meat back in 2016. million in 2018 — the company is still a loss-generating machine. million in 2018, down from $30.4 The company first filed for its public offering in November 2018. While Beyond Meat has increased its revenues steadily — from $16.2

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Funding rounds including at least one North American investor made up $234 million of VC investment so far this year in London, up from $85 million in 2018, and equating to a fifth of all VC investment into London’s impact startups. Arrival is now operating in Los Angeles, while Octopus Energy launched in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Yellow , the accelerator program launched by Snap in 2018, has selected ten companies to join its latest cohort. Since launching the platform in 2018, startups from the Snap accelerator have gone on to acquisition (like Stop, Breathe, and Think, which was bought by Meredith Corp.) The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

Tuesday, February 6, 2018 -- Digital Entertainment World (DEW2018). DEW 2018 focuses on "The FUTURE of." and will cover topics from OTT to Innovation to eSports to Millennials to Content Marketing to VR/AR to Music Rights to Startups, etc., DEW 2018 focuses on "The FUTURE of."

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Monday, February 5, 2018 -- Digital Entertainment World (DEW2018). DEW 2018 focuses on "The FUTURE of." and will cover topics from OTT to Innovation to eSports to Millennials to Content Marketing to VR/AR to Music Rights to Startups, etc., DEW 2018 focuses on "The FUTURE of."

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In the days leading up to TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, The Economist published the cover story, ‘Why Startups Are Leaving Silicon Valley.’ — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) September 6, 2018. — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) September 5, 2018. — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) September 6, 2018. Here's why.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 -- Market Research: The Fuel For Marketing Strategies. American Marketing Association (AMA). We dive into the crucial process of gathering and analyzing information about markets, industries, and products in their competitive spaces. See [link] (more)

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JANUARY 2, 2019

As we close out our contributions for the end of 2018, we have a contribution from investor and investment banker Peter Cowen of Sutton Capital Partners. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Amazon has razor thin profits compared to their revenue but Bezos doesn't care he just wants growth and world domination and has a market cap of $763B.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Carpinteria-based cloud software developer Procore Technologies announced this morning that it has named Jim Sinai as its new Senior Vice President of Marketing. Procore said Sinai will oversee global marketing for the company. Sinai previously had been at Salesforce, where he had been for eight years.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Parts of this story might sound familiar to readers familiar with Good Eggs — when the startup raised its most recent, $50 million funding round in 2018, CEO Bentley Hall also mentioned plans for geographic expansion. And it sounds like he isn’t in a rush to launch in a bunch of new markets. Image Credits: Good Eggs.

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MARCH 26, 2018

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 -- Women in the Global Markets! Governments in 119 economies carried out 264 business reforms in the past year to create jobs, attract investment and become more competitive, says the World Bank Group's latest Doing Business 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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MAY 26, 2018

just past the AMC Center) , the virtual reality game-maker Survios planted its first flag in the market for location-based gaming. million head mounted displays sold in 2018, according to data from Canalys. But that’s still a far smaller market than the 10 million game consoles that were sold in the U.S.

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MARCH 27, 2018

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 -- Facebook Marketing Exclusive MASTERMIND Seminar (12 person limit) This event is hosted at WeWork in Playa Vista. See [link] (more)

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

That’s a reason why some are quick to portend “a new bubble” but this post sets out to show that would be a misunderstanding of the market and in fact by historic levels this may be amongst the best times to invest in seed and early-stage funds. Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018.

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JANUARY 22, 2023

I second his list of top innovation challenges and strategies to capitalize on untapped global startup opportunities: Create new markets rather than disrupt existing ones. But for many other innovative startups in emerging markets where shocks are frequent, a focus on sustainability and the longer view are more key to success.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2019

The global recorded music market grew 9.7% in 2018 to $19.1 There were 255 million users of paid services by the end of 2018 — and Songtrust can attribute much of its growth to the opacity in how that money makes its way back to artists. Songtrust has signed up over 150,000 songwriters for royalties management.

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MAY 15, 2018

Verizon first announced its plans in early 2018 to begin bringing 5G to the masses. as the first market to receive the technology. McAdam also name-checked Boston’s mayor when listing the municipal leaders who’ve been most receptive to working with the technology company on bringing new networking technology to consumers.

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MARCH 16, 2018

Thursday, March 22, 2018 --.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The brand says it stopped shipping products in May of 2018, as a result of new GDPR program requirements; however, the acquisition by Go Global Retail--which acquired ModCloth from Walmart--allowed the company to resume those international shipments. According to ModCloth, the relaunch and global expansion comes due to new ownership.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And in the market of sports memorabilia, authenticity (even if it includes sweat, blood and tears) is everything. “We After Mov had difficulty scaling its marketplace, he thought of new ways to define his market. In 2018, NBA players were allowed to start wearing any sneaker color of their choice. We send it as is,” he said. “We

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our big news as a company was deciding to "transform" Transform Group itself - moving from the top PR firm in the blockchain world to a blockchain company that has a division that now has represented 31 percent of the entire market cap of the nearly $600 billion crypto landscape (excluding bitcoin). Aside from $50,000 bitcoin?

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APRIL 3, 2019

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Yves Sisteron , Stuart Lander & I (depicted in the photo below) have worked together for more than 22 years now and that has taken us through many cycles of market enthusiasm & panic. Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. The answer is: not much.

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APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

TechCrunch is heading to UCLA on October 18 and we’ve assembled some of the AR/VR industry’s most prescient founders, investors and executives to chat about the startups and trends driving virtual and augmented reality in 2018. While VR might not just be about gaming, it’s accurate to say that, in 2018, it mainly is.

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JULY 29, 2019

Later this fall the company said it would launch a new investment feature that will encourage Stackin users to participate in the stock market. According to Grimes, the company made the switch from video to text in March 2018 and built a custom messaging platform on Twilio to service the company’s 500,000 users.

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APRIL 16, 2019

California dominates the United States in terms of electric vehicle (EV) adoption, according to new numbers on EV adoption were released on Monday, representing 46 percent of all new electric vehicle registrations in 2018. Although that's an impressive increase in the market, that still would only represent 2 percent of the total U.S.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

The FDA stopped short of saying Zolgensma should be pulled from the market, but is nonetheless investigating the matter and threatened potential legal action.

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JULY 15, 2021

housing market persists. Redwood City, California-based Abodu, which builds prefabricated ADUs, was founded in 2018 to serve as a “one-stop shop” for building an ADU, or as some describe it, a home in a backyard. Abodu has been active in the market, selling and building its ADUs since the fall of 2019.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2018

As a long-time advisor to aspiring entrepreneurs, and a technology fan myself, I still meet dozens of techies with great solutions who assume they don’t need marketing to change the world. In fact, with today’s information overload, modern marketing is the key to raising even the most innovative solution above the crowd.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

The electric VNR, which will be based on powertrain technology used in the Volvo FE Electric, will be produced for the North American commercial vehicle market starting in 2020, the company said. — Volvo Trucks North America (@VolvoTrucksNA) December 12, 2018. FullyCharged pic.twitter.com/YBefdvH5TJ.

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