TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

If anything, the presence of a growth capital investment firm like Bond, which has not invested in companies operating in what some investors have considered to be frontier markets or technologies, speaks to the strength of the space industry as a whole. Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2019

What were doing in 2019, is scaling the company. Those are largey strategic investors, as well as institutional investors who believe in what we are doing, and are also investing in the overall drone ecosystem. Were completely sold out, and theres more demand than we can keep up with. Finally, whats next for you?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The company has stated that it plans to spend a total of $500 million on podcasting investments, meaning it still has a few hundred million to burn. Whether Spotify doubles down on its walled garden of audio or opts to invest in podcast ads, they’ll snag a big piece of a growing industry. Finally, podcasting is a growing market.

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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. But it’s quite rare.

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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

Image via Pixabay After a frustrating meeting with a small business client recently who didn’t “have time” for social media, I was surprised to find evidence on the Internet that up to one quarter of small business owners are still hesitant to invest time, money, and effort into a social media strategy.

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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

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. Startups going public are laid open to competitors and critics.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

And in addition to streamlining biofuel production, Reversion is also developing ways to improve energy storage for when supply exceeds demand, taking a multi-pronged approach to sustainable power generation. . million-strong market of digital nomads (up almost 10 million from 2019) has proved to be a smart move for the Austin-based company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

Semiconductor advances are infamous for costing millions of dollars and requiring very significant investment in infrastructure. How did a startup like yours go from that research to a product without millions and millions invested in semiconductor infrastructure? is dwindling, and consolidating, as companies are being bought up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. As a result, smart investors will tell you they invest in the jockey, not the horse (people, not ideas). Make the product or service come alive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2019

Some people call this the emergence and development of a new type of leader, called the algorithmic leader, who can steer the course through the world of big data, machine learning, and the constantly changing demands of new customers and social trends. Find the new jobs inside the old ones, and invest in the skills required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

A clear symptom of founder’s syndrome is more excuses, more demands, and more direction without input. Therefore, if you are looking to join a startup, or invest in one, I recommend that you beyond a quick inspirational interview or two with the founder, before making a decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2019

Uber and Airbnb managed to remain “under the radar” of the giants by snatching up excess demand until they had their own foothold in the market. Their view is that if it doesn’t work for millions of customers, it is a poor investment. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/22/2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2019

Thus a coaching culture is well worth the investment in time and effort. In fact, in today’s digital age, with a rapid movement to new generations of workers, and equally rapid changes in technology and market demands, your business may not survive without it. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 07/11/2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

Thus incremental investments are better spent figuring out ways to extract further value from sticky customers at any given point in time. For example, you will often find some new customers who want to test your limits by demanding extra service or concessions, leaving you with little or no lifetime value.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

” Sharper Startup Focuses Warrant Investment. “RFP and response management software combined with PreSales is a strategic area for investment at the moment for a lot of VC’s and PE companies, so it feels like Avnio is in the right place at the right time.”. However, investors have seen fit to pump $31.2

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas. To keep pace, carriers are making strategic infrastructure investments to expand and improve coverage. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

That's because employees who are facing individual fines for not having insurance will, in many cases, choose to buy it at the workplace, thereby increasing demand. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the credit could amount to $40 billion in savings for four million small businesses by 2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Treat employees like your most demanding customers. Very few organizations communicate internally with the same investment of thought and professionalism as when implementing their customer-obsessed strategies. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/13/2019. Don’t let your competitor get there first.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Shell’s plan to roll out 500,000 electric charging station in just four years is the latest sign of an EV charging infrastructure boom that has prompted investors to pour cash into the industry and inspired a few companies to become public companies in search of the capital needed to meet demand.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. billion investment in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building a mission into a business By the time Valence launched in late 2019, the team had built the necessary systems and technology to seamlessly engage and onboard the community?—?not Huge hats off to Kobie for the idea, energy, direction, evening hours and the foresight and salesmanship required to bring on Guy to take the helm.

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