socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2020

Ford has cancelled an electric SUV it had planned to develop using technology from electric truck developer Rivian , as the automaker has gone into survival mode due to a massive impact from the ongoing pandemic. billion in funding in December of 2019 , from such investors as T. Rivian received $1.3 READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Investors from the latest Vision Fund first reached out to Canter shortly after the company announced its last round of funding in 2019. In some ways, Nextbite couldn’t exist without Ordermark’s delivery aggregation technology. Then there’s secret shopping and review monitoring to monitor quality.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting. billion fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Most of us have blind spots in our ability to build a business, due to lack of experience, too much ego, over-confidence, or unjustified faith in a subordinate. If I suggest your technology needs validation in the market before scaling, it’s fair to ask how long and how expensive that test could be.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. More in-person contact is one of my 2019 goals. We expect some big things in 2019. I remain VERY bullish on SoCal's tech community.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

However, there is already the technology out therefrom San Luis Obispo-based Whitefox Defense (www.whitefoxdefense.com)  to both detect, and neutralize those drones. We spoke with founder and CEO Luke Fox to learn more about the company, and its technology. Explain how your technology works?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

Maven had paused service due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Maven had already suspended its consumer car-sharing and a peer-to-peer service due to COVID-19. The service’s demise seemed to begin after the company lost its CEO Julia Steyn in January 2019. GM’s experiment with car sharing is over.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2019

We at Xconomy are excited to announce that we are honoring Mark Levin, co-founder and partner at Third Rock Ventures, with our 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award in Boston. The award recognizes Levin’s extensive contributions to the biotech industry and to the Boston life sciences ecosystem.

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2020

Santa Ana-based AWM Smart Shelf (Adroit Worldwide Media), which develops computer vision and machine learning technology, says it has opened up its very first "autonomous micromarket" in Santa Ana, which lets residents of the Nineteen01 luxury apartment community shop for sodas, water, juice, food, and more--all without the need for a clerk.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While Waymo has been mapping several LA neighborhoods, including Downtown, Miracle Mile, Koreatown and Westwood, since 2019, the company will start its rider-only testing in Santa Monica before gradually ramping up. Services will be available “outside of traditional rush hour times,” a spokesperson told TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. So it makes me laugh to this day when I talk with a journalist or potential investor in the company and they ask flippantly, “How is MakeSpace a technology company?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2020

Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation. Equally bad is a full tutorial on your new disruptive technology. Investors are more interested in your solution and your business, rather than your technology. According to Gartner, the opportunity is 100 million by 2019, with 12% compounded growth.”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2019

Solo or autocratic entrepreneurs usually don’t survive, due to required skills and a workload far beyond the capacity of a single human. Open office plans simply squeeze more employees in less space, and often reduce productivity and collaboration, due to noise, distractions, and constant interruptions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Unit costs are important, but don’t forget about the cash flow hit, extra storage costs, and the probability of obsolete inventory due to necessary updates or pivots. It’s no secret that some people are more productive than others, due to skills, training, or commitment. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/26/2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Turns Out There Are Competitive Moats There were some tech meme’s out there last year that scooter companies had no moats. While the Bird Zero has shown massive improvements, as you can imagine the company has built an entire vehicles team and designed an entire roadmap of scooters that will hit the roads in 2019 / 2020.

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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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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Amazon used its popular affiliate program to spur additional growth, getting reviewers and publishing sites – including us here at Tech.co – to link to Amazon in exchange for a small payout whenever a reader bought something by following that link. Best for: Authors, book reviewers, booktubers. The impact?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/12/2019.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The project ultimately imploded due to a combination of factors. An emerging tech dystopia. One recent example of this phenomenon is Tamsyn Muir’s “Gideon the Ninth,” published in 2019, which the New York Times called “a devastating debut that deserves every ounce of hype it’s received.” pic.twitter.com/2NHEmzHZrV.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

Every ad, every review, or lack of one, tells a story about how much you care, and what customer experience one might expect. Even if your town never seems to change, there are always changes in trends, people, and technology. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01-07-2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

They want ongoing conversations, not just annual reviews. With modern technology, employees communicate constantly with people who count, and expect their managers to do the same. Annual reviews alone have never worked as a substitute for regular feedback on things done well, and not so well. Meet team members on their own turf.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In my experience as a business advisor, one of the best ways to get all of these, is to publish a book on the technology, the journey, or some relevant lessons learned. Once you have a book, media coverage can come from book reviews and academic discussions, as well as from you and your customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

A refrain I often hear from technology entrepreneurs to investors is that their product or solution is so innovative that it will cause a “paradigm shift” in the industry. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

New manufacturers and new technology are hard to get right the first time, so you will have unusable inventory and emergency repairs. It helps to also have your plan reviewed and critiqued by an experienced advisor in the same industry. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 03/28/2019. Don’t get caught short.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

If your strength is technology, find a partner who can complement you with marketing and financial skills. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/20/2019. These and other strengths may actually give you a competitive edge over your more extroverted constituents. Surround yourself with allies who have complementary skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Thus, I’m more impressed with entrepreneurs who ask me to review their implementation plan, rather than listen again to their idea. Some dreams sound great, but may not yet be viable or proven with today’s technology. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/21/2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2019

Highlight your competitive value, not your technology. This may sound obvious, but I still see too many companies with a strategy of highlighting technology improvements and features, rather than their value compared to competitors. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/03/2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

Senior leaders need to be personally involved in defining the tests and reviewing results and implications. Amazon targets the new machine learning technology to leverage his focus on customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/15/2019. Experiment, fail, rinse, and repeat. Do what Amazon is doing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In my experience as a business consultant, I find than most people still believe that technology drives business disruption. I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. Memorable personalization doesn’t always have to include fancy technology or high cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Technology enhances experience, not impedes it. If your marketing metrics and budget ignore the fact that you have call center queues thirty minutes long, or no coverage of online reviews or social media, your customer service is not keeping up with competitors. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/21/2019.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

That seed funding was really to let us prove the concept and build the technology to enable returns in person at retailers, and let us figure out whether or not customers wanted to return this way, and get an idea of how to scale. They were interested in the foot traffic that represented, and we provided the technology and training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

I was lucky enough to be part of a key intrapreneurial effort at IBM, the IBM PC development, which I believe was only allowed to happen due to the internal political acumen of our leader, Don Estridge. He knew well IBM executive sensitivity to open architecture, third-party suppliers, and micro technology, and used it to leverage funding.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹. Review Wireless Backhaul Capabilities. To keep pace, carriers are making strategic infrastructure investments to expand and improve coverage. They aren’t the only ones. Evaluate Infrastructure Variety.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

As federal agency employees miss their first paychecks today due to the partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22, federal contractors and their workers—including technology professionals—face a loss of income that they may never recover.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2019

More and more customers these days are doing their own marketing research, scanning internet reviews and feedback from friends, rather than trusting messages that you push out through advertising. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/08/2019. Update your website to make it totally customer-focused.

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