socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

While 2018 was all about better understanding the SoCal opportunity, 2019 was about honing our focus and defining our core programs. A few years ago, there was still a sense of competition between various start-up communities, but this sentiment has been replaced by a sense that we are stronger together.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Venture Capital 140

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 30, 2019

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 -- ACG101's 3rd Annual Emerging Growth Pitch Competition and Showcase. On June 5th, we're showcasing a select group of Greater-Los Angeles's finest startups in an event you won't want to miss.

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Competition SoCal Southern California Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based nonprofit XPRIZE --which runs prize competitions to help advance technology and solutions to world problems--said on Tuesday that celebrity Pharrell Williams has won the top prize in its latest "Visioneering 2019" annual gathering.

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Competition Los Angeles Design Ideas 164

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Both are required to stay competitive. 57 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2019, up 4 million since 2014. The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company.

Competition 127

Competition Case Study Platform Yahoo 127

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

Most entrepreneurs are quick to assert to potential investors that their product or solution will kill the competition, but unfortunately your opinion alone is not enough to convince most experienced investors. A competitive advantage to a non-problem or tiny niche is not interesting to investors.

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Competition Patents Startup Customer 86

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Thursday, September 12, 2019 --.

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Competition 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

We went out on a limb in a competitive category with Wheels, and we did it because we believed in the founders. Personal mobility and transportation innovation are absolutely massive issues for citiesespecially Los Angelesand we watch the categories closely.

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Southern California News Platform Class 100

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2020

The company was founded in 2017, but only raised its Series A in December of 2019, when it raised $6M in funding. The company originally raised funding as part of a "Quick Pitch" competition with the San Diego Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels San Diego Seed Funding Competition 113

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

. “If big companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon are prevented from acquiring startups, that actually reduces competition,” Sirinivasan writes. If big companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are prevented from acquiring startups, that actually reduces competition. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 8, 2019.

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Technical Review Startup Chief Technology Officer Social Media 144

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to ConnectedTravel, it is in a collaboration with Universal Music Group's Capitol Music Group for the upcoming Capitol Royale Hackathon from November 15-17, 2019. Details of the collaboration were not announced. The hackathon wil be at the Capitol Records Building in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles 113

Los Angeles Competition Ideas Angel 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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Venture Capital Marketing Technical Review Seed Funding 416

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The startup had announced $2M in an earlier funding in January of 2019. The company originally raised funding as part of the San Diego Tech Coast Angels, in a "Quick Pitch" competition three years ago. Trust & Will was foudned by Cody Barbo, Daniel Goldstein, and Brian Lamb. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels San Diego Seed Funding Competition 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 2, 2019

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 -- CLU New Venture Fair. The New Venture Fair (NVF) is a valuable part of Cal Lutheran's entrepreneur education experience, in which student teams share their innovative startup projects in a competitive environment.

Education 100

Education Ideas Competition Entrepreneur 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Saturday, November 16, 2019 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Transportation. Emerging Opportunities in Urban Mobility and the Business Models It Will Enable. The ways that people and products move around cities worldwide are rapidly changing.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Demand Mobile 100

TechCrunch LA

MAY 20, 2021

So in 2019 she founded Eano , a San Francisco-based startup that aims to walk a homeowner through a renovation and help connect individual contractors with new clients. Eano, she said, offers competitive and transparent pricing so that homeowners aren’t surprised as a remodeling project goes on.

Technical Review 185

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Software Review 185

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. In a world when LPs benchmark VC performance on a 3-year time horizon from deploying one’s fund (is your 2019 fund in the top quartile!!??) I find it funny when people try to blame VCs or LPs or CEOs as though anybody could choose to control a market. billion fund.

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Venture Capital Startup Marketing Pricing 466

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

They also were exclusive to Bird so they gave the company a competitive advantage. Turns Out There Are Competitive Moats There were some tech meme’s out there last year that scooter companies had no moats. In the ride hailing market there is a competition for drivers and they eat a large part of the consumers’ fee for a ride.

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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Marty Zwilling.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform). .”

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Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

What were doing in 2019, is scaling the company. The last fundraising we did was use to prove out our technology, and weve now had head-to-head competition with our competitors and others in the space to prove out our technology, our unique capabilities, and our unique approach to solving this problem.

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Startup Technical Review Technology Competition 187

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With Emjay, not only does PCH get a distribution company, but since it also acts a vertical operator the company can deliver marijuana products to consumers at a far lower cost than its competition.

Company 188

Company Companies Los Angeles San Diego 188

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future).

Startup 236

Startup Venture Capital Tips Capital 236

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch reported a new high of more than 200 companies in YCombinator’s Winter 2019 cohort, and many were scooped up by VCs even before the Demo Days.

Resource 159

Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. The key takeaway? What can you tell us about MuteSix as an agency?

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

The firm, which underwent a significant restructuring over the last two years, went on an investment tear over the course of 2019 as new partners went out to build up a new portfolio for the firm — almost of a whole cloth. Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund.

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IBM IBM Venture Capital Invest 164

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The challenge is that too many are confused on what that means for them, and what it takes to make their business competitively agile. These authors, and I agree, define agility in business as the ability to detect and assess changes in the competitive world in real time, and then take decisive and effective action.

Competition 102

Competition Examples Startup Resource 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

What worked for you yesterday probably won’t keep you alive and competitive tomorrow. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/20/2019. Long-term success and vitality requires a constant focus on finding the new magic in a new marketplace with new customers. Standing still is actually falling behind.

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Customer Custom Examples IBM 143

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Most experienced business people love to help, but they don’t have the time or interest to give you a course on basic business concepts, like the need to be competitive. I get much more satisfaction, and can provide more realistic help, in steering you through specific pricing, organizational, or competitive challenges you face.

Help 123

Help Entrepreneur Course IBM 123

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

For the second year in a row 8 of the 10 companies selected for Techstars LA were local and we anticipate that trend continuing in 2019. And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM.

Startup 124

Startup Press Commerce Southern California 124

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 8, 2020

The 2020 Ford Escape plug-in hybrid — a first for the SUV — comes with an EPA-estimated 37 miles of all-electric driving range and 100 miles per gallon equivalent, stats that will put the redesigned model into competition with the new Toyota RAV4 Prime. The Toyota RAV4 Prime has an estimated 42-mile EV range and 94 MPGe. this summer.

Los Angeles 119

Los Angeles Pricing Startup Competition 119

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

Yet the 2019 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. Can be a competitive advantage. Competition over salary, promotions, and position. This can cause feelings of unfairness, and initiate emotionally competitive efforts. Success is the best antidote to emotional vulnerability.

Startup 119

Startup Course Competition Social Media 119

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Institutional venture capital dispensed in 2019 was down a bit from record highs the previous year, but up significantly over the last few years. Individual angel investors and crowdfunding have been adding to the momentum, some say exceeding VCs in total amount invested. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations.

Funding 125

Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In my experience as an angel investor, the perfect pitch length is ten slides, outlining the business problem, your solution, opportunity sizing, competition, and financial projections for the next five years. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/14/2019.

Ideas 126

Ideas Slides Sample Examples 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

These things are clearly good for morale, but its not so clear that they translate into a competitive advantage. The overall approach to culture change that I and the authors recommend is to first assess your current culture for a liability, or a competitive disadvantage. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/14/2019.

Competition 76

Competition Coach Case Study Statistics 76

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Fast forward to 2019, and Shopify now has over a million stores in the world, man of them direct-to-consumer stores. So, we decided that if we wanted to try to tackle this as an end-to-end solution, we needed to maintain our competitive edge, and we needed to raise capital to hire staff.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2019

That’s more than enough to put you ahead of your competition. When leveraged properly, relationships can be your most effective sustainable competitive advantage in growing your business or your career. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/03/2019. Make the investment today.

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Social Media News Tool Email 96