SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2019

Thursday, January 24, 2019 -- TCVN Program: Customer Development. The four tracks are: Legal, Execution, Finance, and Marketing and will consist of a series of five, consecutive monthly programs designed to give the entrepreneur a comprehensive overview of each area. Who is your customer? See [link] (more)

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The concept is similar to Toyota’s e-Palette vehicle, which can theoretically be customized to serve as a retail shop, restaurant or shuttle for people. The company rebranded as Canoo in spring 2019 and debuted its first vehicle last September. Canoo said it will provide engineering services to develop the electric platform.

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Startup Develop Development Platform 310

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I find that I often have to remind them that the world of customers has changed since they started their last business. But even the older Boomers have learned to use technology and social media as the source of expectations from your business, more so than your own traditional marketing.

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Customer Custom Social Media Startup 133

TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

housing market persists. Abodu has been active in the market, selling and building its ADUs since the fall of 2019. Next, Abodu is eyeing the San Diego market. “John, Eric, and their team manage the end-to-end process of permitting, building, and installing on behalf of their customers,” he told TechCrunch.

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Los Angeles Customer Custom Startup 322

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. 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.

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Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini. Harley Davidson introduced its all electric $29K LiveWire in 2019, becoming the first of the big gas manufacturers to offer a street-legal e-moto for sale in the U.S.

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Technical Review Competition Demand Sales 277

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. However, innovation-driven corporations often have the urgency to act (or risk losing market share, relevance, etc) and resources to deploy. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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SoCal Southern California Startup Venture Capital 140

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2019

Thursday, April 25, 2019 -- Navigating the Green Rush: Canna Advertising, Marketing and Branding. Hear from stand-out canna brands and marketers as they discuss what to know when launching campaigns to reach customers and partners. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2020

The company says its system lets consumersshop as normal and check out by simply walking out of the store, using computer vision technology to track how customers interact with products, and whether they add or subtract items from their cart.

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Orange County Artificial Inteligence OCTANE Marketing 113

socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2019

Financial details of the four acquisition, which all closed in the first quarter of 2019, were not announced. j2 Global said the acquisition will help it grow its global customer base, provide it with access to new markets, and will expand its product lineup.

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Company Companies Southern California Acquisition 173

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers. Practice continuous bar-raising for your talent pool.

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Marketing Technical Review Custom Customer 123

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Startup Boost Los Angeles has opened up applications for its Fall 2019 class, according to the group. Matt Stodder, the co-director of the Los Angeles program, says it is seeking companies with the right team, a minimum viable product, customer traction, and viable plan for going forward. READ MORE>>.

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Los Angeles Class Angel Startup 154

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

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Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 286

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

million since its January 2019 inception. Los Angeles-based Just says it uses telematics “to reward safe drivers and reduce insurer bias” by looking at factors such as how, when and where customers drive, rather than factors such as ZIP code or marital status as most traditional insurers do. Image Credits: Just Insure.

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Startup Custom Customer Los Angeles 203

TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. Bev , a canned wine business that recently raised $7 million in seed funding from Founders Fund, thinks marketing in the alcohol industry is the problem. pic.twitter.com/DMEg88t4iO.

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Startup Venture Capital Newsletter Tips 223

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2019

Much has been written recently about the requirement to focus today on the total customer experience, as a competitive edge or even for survival. The challenge I hear from savvy business owners and entrepreneurs operating on a shoestring is that providing a superior customer experience costs money.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 15, 2021

Saltbox opened its first facility — a 27,000-square-foot location — in its home base of Atlanta in late 2019, filling it within two months. The company plans to end 2021 with eight locations, in particular eyeing the Denver, Seattle and Los Angeles markets. Now, Saltbox has completed a $10.6

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Commerce Help Startup Los Angeles 237

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product. . “MetaCX sits above any digital product,” McCorkle says.

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Chief Technology Officer SaaS Metrics Customer 145

Xconomy

JANUARY 30, 2019

But a 2019 that started with stock market losses, a recently ended (but longest-ever) government shutdown, and other headwinds might now force consumers to pull back on spending. What does that mean for our customers?” Are we going to have a recession? At the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos gathering last.

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Marketing Customer Custom Technology 67

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Too many business owners still think of “ customer support ” as an after-sale process to rectify customer problems with completed transactions. With the advent of instant communication and social media, customer service starts at the first hint of interest by you, and never ends for repeat customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

Is your marketing focus product-centric or customer-centric ? With a wealth of products now available, customers look for the most memorable experience , not just the best product. Amazon is very customer-centric, but it can make all the difference in retail as well as online.

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Customer Custom Product Metrics 85

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The biggest news for BiasSync is having a successful beta, launching publicly and getting our first customers including a Fortune 50 multinational, several Fortune 500 companies and state and federal agencies within a few months of starting to sell. We'll be featuring contributions all through the holiday season.

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Startup News SaaS Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2021

Los Angeles-based HONK Technologies, a startup which provides roadside assistance through a network of third party towing companies, is expanding its support for an existing customer, Branch Insurance. HONK says it began offering up its services to Branch members in 2019. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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Services Los Angeles Networking Marketing 113

TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

That’s still a steep price for customers to pay out of pocket. Ezra initially came to market with a single test to screen for prostate cancer using machine learning to diagnose the screens coming off of an abbreviated MRI scan that takes 20 minutes. Insurance companies won’t pay for Ezra’s screens… yet.

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Artificial Inteligence Screening Startup Los Angeles 278

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2019. READ MORE>>.

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Thousand Oaks Research Customer Custom 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Centerfield, a marketing and customer acquisition company backed by private equity investor Platinum Equity, says it has acquired both Business.com and Savings.com. The company was acquired by Platinum Equity in December 2019. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. for the domain name.

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Santa Monica Equity Incubator Acquisition 113

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

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

What we’ve seen is a more exploratory customer than the industry recognizes, ready to try new form factors, products and categories. Saucey launched in 2014 and now operates across 22 markets including LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, New York City, Chicago, Washington, Dallas, Orlando, Tampa and Miami.

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Company Companies Los Angeles San Diego 188

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

After working in business at all levels, and consulting to entrepreneurs for years, I’m still surprised to see so many situations where things that should be easy are painful to customers, and lead to customers hating your business. Accelerating worldwide competition and financial upheavals are undermining established market positions.

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Customer Custom Demand Examples 83

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The e-tron Sportback reveal ahead of the LA Auto Show follows the launch earlier this year of Audi’s first all-electric vehicle, the 2019 e-tron. Audi has delivered 18,500 of its all-electric e-tron SUVs globally since March 2019 when the vehicle first came to market. The base price of the Sportback is 71,350 ($79,000).

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Design Los Angeles .Net Course 162

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2019

Many notable recent successes, including Airbnb and Uber, have done it by finding disruptive customers, with essentially no new technology. They seek customers willing to decouple from accepted buying models, or are actively looking for a better total experience. Instead seek out customers they can’t or won’t serve.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 -- Preccelerator Workshop: Pivoting with Constraints w/ Jim Cooper, Braid Theory. Pivoting with Constraints Direction and position of a company's pivot, relative to risk and other factors, strongly affects how a startup progresses through barriers and objects in the market. See [link] (more)

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The global meat substitute market was valued at $4.51 Growing up with a father who was a food marketer, Boyd Myers said she saw firsthand what eating a diet of fast-food can do to a person and was always looking for more healthy food options that also had a positive benefit for the planet. AKUA co-founder and CEO Courtney Boyd Myers.

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Startup Los Angeles Sample Funding 191

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2020

Los Angeles-based J2 Global , which owns a large portfolio of Internet services and publications, says it acquired two more companies during Q4 of 2019. J2 Global said the acquisition grew its global customer base, provide it with access to new markets, and expand its product lineup. READ MORE>>.

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Company Companies Southern California High Tech 100

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. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 30, 2021

The company, founded by ex-Google engineers and colleagues behind the unrequited Bookbot , was formed to develop market-ready tech in self-driving, AI-powered robotics and delivery operations in 2019, but the team has kept operations under wraps until now. With this announcement, Cartken officially comes out of stealth mode.

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Google Technology Artificial Inteligence Chief Technology Officer 189

Both Sides of the Table

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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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250