TechCrunch LA

MARCH 5, 2020

The scooters upended bike share, and prompted companies to take some of their bikes off the streets due to lack of demand, according to several city officials who spoke to TechCrunch during SXSW 2019. But then scooters came en masse. “We think Austinites are going to love this new way to get around.” ”

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2019

One year after a $38 million Series B valued on-demand aviation startup Blade at $140 million, the company has begun taxiing the Bay Area’s elite. — Tyler Babin (@Tyler_Babin) March 11, 2019. New work with @flybladenow pic.twitter.com/eONvKU3rhM.

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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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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 7, 2020

2019 was all about building the best real estate website platform in the sector and I’m so proud of what our team was able to accomplish. Our focus was on how to make beautiful, functional and lead-generating sites that were easily customizable to fit the agent’s needs and demands, and we did just that.”.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 29, 2020

The company first announced the Vegas expansion in July 2019. “First the ability to securely, consistently and immediately enable and disable game development platforms; and second, our ability to expand and contract our infrastructure based on demand.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2020

The relationship with XRC Labs’ Pano Anthos began after a small pilot integration between Joymode and Walmart launched in late 2019. Joymode’s founder Joe Fernandez will continue on as an advisor to Joymode as the company moves to pivot its business to focus on retail partnerships.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based on-demand scooter startup Bird is pulling its scooters from the streets of a number of Florida cities, as the state faces its first major hurricane in the "on-demand scooter" era. HurricaneDorian #scooternado — Ken Russell Miami (@kenrussellmiami) August 29, 2019. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2019

On-demand, ride sharing service Lyft said on Tuesday that it has rolled out a new fleet of wheelchair accessible vehicles, in Los Angeles, as well as San Francisco. According to Lyft, it new "wheelchair accessible vehicle" (WAV) pilot will provide transportation for fixed frame, non-collapsible wheelchair users, using 2019 Toyota Siennas.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the movie ticketing and movie information provider, has inked a new deal to stream films from IMAX , as part of its video-on-demand service, FandangoNOW , the company said on Monday. Financial details of the deal were not announced. The IMAX Enhanced film program provider 4K HDR content and DTS audio films.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Los Angeles-based LiveXLive Media , which operates a livestreaming and on-demand audio, video, and podcasting service, says it has signed an agreement to acquire Custom Personalization Solutions, LLC , in a deal worth up to $6M. LiveXLive said that CPS had approximately $19M in revenue in 2019. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2020

San Diego-based artificial intelligence software developer Brain Corp says it is saw "record sales and revenue growth" in 2019, on strong retailer demand for autonomous, mobile robots.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

It also started Maven Gig in hopes of tapping into a growing demand from rideshare and delivery app drivers. The service’s demise seemed to begin after the company lost its CEO Julia Steyn in January 2019. The peer-to-peer car rental service was designed to operate in a similar fashion to how Turo and Getaround work.

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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.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. ” I don’t doubt that he means it.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

million since its January 2019 inception. Also, with so many people shifting to working from home over the last year, Just says it has seen increased demand this year. Just Insure , a pay-per-mile insurance technology company, has raised $8 million in a funding round. .

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 5, 2019

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 -- San Diego FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in San Diego, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2019

Thursday, June 13, 2019 -- Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in Orange County, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Nonetheless, I expect that in 2019 the VC market will shift toward demanding profit. Storytelling will be important, and if youre raising capital in 2019, your story had better include some convincing scenes with dazzling unit economics and the conclusion that your company could, at least some day, be wildly profitable.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

“We’ve spoken to what amounts to billions of dollars in potential demand for the company over time… They need a faster, better, cheaper solution.” The company expects to secure a polar and Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) capable launch site by the end of 2019. “These guys have built the world’s largest 3-D printer.”

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 23, 2020

Despite being one of the most popular apps of 2019 , monetisation has largely eluded the company up to now. “We are seeing a new generation of music services and a new era of music-related consumption, much of it driven by the global demand for independent music.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88 Customer expectations now demand seamless and satisfying user experiences. The Continued Growth of Cloud. The All-Important User Experience.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

What were doing in 2019, is scaling the company. Were completely sold out, and theres more demand than we can keep up with. Its been used to protect critical infrastructure in nuclear power plants, to protect transmission lines, at prisons, at airports, by law enforcement, for dignitary protection, etc.

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Xconomy

JULY 30, 2019

On Monday, Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) informed the markets that it had overshot the mark with its 2019 estimates. The news reflects a slowdown in the demand for mail-in genetic testing kits and a lag in the rollout of some of the government-led population studies for which Illumina provides DNA sequencing tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2019

What we learn in school hasn’t kept up with the demands. Some issues can be resolved with “back of the envelope” calculations, while complex modern issues may demand more time and sophisticated new tools. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/21/2019. Rely on an incomplete or outdated analytic tool set.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. The underlying issue is we don't know what to watch, which makes on-demand a really bad experience. Everything was going on-demand, we we said, more people want to be programmed to, which was very contrarian. That just doesn't happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2020

They don’t seem to realize that investors can be the most demanding bosses your ever had, since it’s their money you are using and potentially losing. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/18/2019. They then ask me to help them find investors who can provide the funding they need.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The podcast will look even more like an on-demand version of radio than it already does. The relatively open playing field that results makes podcasting a more welcoming, inclusive space, as my recent visit to Podcon 2019 proved. Today, blogging has been subsumed by the closed systems of social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Demand continuous innovation to keep up with change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

They demand to be empowered to make life tradeoffs, such as vacation scheduling and benefit options, as well as business decisions. Economic/social trends demand new employee contract. Customers are demanding more from their public governing units, as well as the businesses that serve them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

Jeff Bezos always instills a sense of urgency by demanding business plans from business leaders on how they would disrupt their own lines of business. Customer and competitive demands are rising across all sectors and experiences. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/15/2019. Stay hungry even when you are successful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

At Amazon, Jeff Bezos leads a relentless drive to invent dramatic new ways to delight customers, not waiting for customer demands or competitors to show the way. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/12/2019. As an entrepreneur, how well do your values align with these?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

With that first wave of customers comes a whole set of additional demands on your time and energy. Change, hard work, and learning should be nothing new to you, so don’t let these new demands of scaling be your downfall. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/15/2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 2019 market conditions often are such that founders retain control of the board through the A-round, usually in a 2–1 (common to investor) ratio but sometimes it’s 3–2 (common to investor). For starters, the incoming CEO will demand between 4–6% of the company so shareholders will immediately face dilution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We have many really good IPOs on the Horizon such as Uber and Lyft and Slack, most of which will probably try and get out in Q1, but the big question will be can the technology sector, and the market as a whole for that matter, keep up its bull run long beyond the normal cycle or will we see more than just a correction in 2019? On Demand).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Demand professional business skills and customer advocacy. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/25/2019. Start by getting familiar with social media analysis tools, such as Google Analytics, Snaplytics, and SproutSocial. Always gauge progress by business indicators, like customer acquisition cost and customer satisfaction.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

Those numbers will also depend on demand for the Polestar 2 and other models that are built in the same factory. ” The Polestar 2, which was first revealed in February 2019, has been positioned by the company to go up against Tesla Model 3. Image Credits: Screenshot/Polestar.

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