TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

Vehicle Provider Information Exchange: These partners are also working closely with NASA to provide information about their vehicles so NASA can prep them for possible flight activities that will occur during the 2022 Grand Challenge. Companies participating in the challenge include: Joby Aviation of Santa Cruz, California.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

A : Activation - What % have a "happy" initial experience? Startup Metrics with Dave McClure Dave McClure has a great presentation on Startup Metrics where he points to some additional metrics that are useful to consider: A : Acquisition - Where / what channels do users come from? R : Retention - Do they come back & re-visit over time?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Define more activities as unimportant. This classification of activities requires an overt effort, but pays back in productivity. Thinking in threes allows you to keep important activities on top of mind, and better manage your time, energy, and attention. Strive for imperfection on key activities. Move away from them.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2018

There will be other chances to get the timing down, but for the first concert in Los Angeles, concertgoers were prompted to launch the SNKRS app and try and snag a pair of the limited edition shoes well before the activation actually went live. The team at Nike said the concert’s late start caused the miscue. ”

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

Penetrate the Fortune 500 with at least five active accounts within two years. Here are some example strategies from some of my companies over the recent years. Expand into at least three new continents through new distribution channels. Create a hosted “software as a service” or “on demand” addition to our product line by end of (next) year.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I’ll still work with Kara managing the next few funds, but I’ve already been pushing for our firm to do more to diversify our activities and this will allow me to focus on some of that. He’s helped me run the Upfront holding company activities for all of these years and will continue to do so. Does This Mean You’re Retiring?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

[Email readers, continue here…] The format also calls for the CEO to examine his calendar over time and report classes of activities by percentage of total time spent, so that the group may add comments about use of CEO time to the critique. How much time do you devote to each type of activity?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Whats happening in regions in our counties with startup and entrepreneurial activity, especially in the Conejo Valley (Calabasas to Thousand Oaks) is exciting. Spaces like LACI, Vector90, Toolbox, Grid110, and Hub101 are vital to the economy and the communities. I am excited for the big moves being made in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Lots of firms are now talking about this pretty actively.”. Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly. We see more activity there from the traditional East Coast and West Coast firms.”. “People who were investors thought, ‘Why would you do this?

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2021

Steckler was active in the Orange County community, having recently donated $10.4M Vince Steckler, the former CEO of cybersecurity software developer Avast, has unexpectedly died in a car accident in Irvine, according to the software developer.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Microsoft has been steadfast in their dedication to improving the performance of their.NET framework, and has been active in the Framework Benchmark community to further this goal. Numerous individuals and organizations leverage the insights from The TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks to enhance their framework’s performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Actively solicit input from trusted members of your team. These outside activities may be sports, non-profits or family activities where you can change roles, rely on someone else for leadership, or simply relax and recharge. Actively improve your charismatic image. Don’t isolate yourself.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2021

The company said it received the funding from the DARPA Scalable Wideband Autonomous RF Mapping MANET (SWARMM), which is aimed at intercepting arbitrary RF activity. Silvus said its technology provides "extremely fast" spectrum scanning in a form factor the size of an iPhone.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Sales of WholesaleWare, as the platform is called, Xu said, have seen more than 800% growth over the last year, now managing “several hundreds of millions of dollars of food wholesale activities” annually. Underpinning its tech is the sheer size of the operation: economies of scale in action.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It is natural for executives and entrepreneurs with lots on their plate and little extra time – to just keep up the same activities that have made the company a success. Keep on doing what works and that grows the company (rinse and repeat) and actively work on the rest? Innovation should be a goal….

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs. Attend an investment conference.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

We've built an artficial intelligence platform, which tells you who is more active than others, based on their behavior. So it sounds like developers really need to try to be active on these public sites, for any visibility? Shane Bernstein: It's really hard to game this, you just have to be more active in a community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Every team needs to understand how their activities relate to customer revenue. Key activities. It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2021

Listening to customers requires your help in rewarding rather than penalizing that activity, and being the role model to follow. As an example, customer-centric may mean interacting on social media, or actively taking the customer's position in a dispute, rather than the company position. Find people who enjoy being problem solvers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2020

Actively seek and learn from the counsel of smart people. Make sure you actively interact with and show appreciation for people smarter than you, even if they don’t always agree with you. Don’t forget to maintain a healthy balance between business and personal demands, including family, sleep, and time off for enjoyable activities.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The format also calls for the CEO to examine their calendar over time and report classes of activities by percentage of total time spent, so that the group may add comments about use of that person’s valuable time to the critique. How much time do you devote to each type of activity?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

TechCrunch spoke to two customers who said the Mercedes-Benz’ connected car app was pulling in information from other accounts and not their own, allowing them to see other car owners’ names, recent activity, phone numbers, and more. It’s not uncommon for modern vehicles these days to come with an accompanying phone app.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

Supporting all of this investment activity is the potential to carve out a huge chunk of the $270 billion consumers spent on meat in the U.S. Impossible Burger is another well-financed startup making burger alternatives, as is the current king of animal-free condiments, Just , which is looking at lab-grown meat on its product roadmap.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2017

By smoothing the utility’s signal into a very sensitive AC current wave (sine wave), my sensitive equipment and energy star certified electronics are actively protected for the first time. I discovered that this is more than a battery backup. And I have 35-40 minutes of power in the same size case as my old backup.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 17, 2021

We also initiated a vulnerability assessment, including the review of server access logs to detect any unrecognized network activity or unusual authentication failures.” ” Trenkle declined to say when the cloud server became active, and why the allegedly legacy server had test results as recently as last month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2020

Able to balance right-brain and left-brain activities. Great entrepreneurs seek out critical customers and industry experts, and actively listen, but are not afraid to trust their own judgment as well. Overall, the entrepreneur mentality is a state of mind that enjoys the activities and requirements of starting a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

According to the classic book, “ One Second Ahead ,” by noted authority on training the mind, Rasmus Hougaard, there are some basic rules that can really help you manage your focus and awareness in all work activities. The key to cultivating joy is to anticipate at least some activities you enjoy daily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Focus on activities rather than results.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

” Earlier this year, the company partnered with DoorDash on a similar activation for a concert to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club as part of a broad celebrity effort to raise money to alleviate food insecurity for families affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. and the work with Dr.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

It is the excitement of activity that generates more and better output for most, not the isolation of silence. The change to a near silent environment is so startling that, many times, employees express a bit of resentment or even depression, masked by the common statement that “it is so much easier to get work done without the noise.”

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2018

At the early stage investment firm Fink said he was responsible for marketing activities for companies including Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay, SpringRole, Wishbone, and Hello Society over the six years he worked at the company. Neddenriep, served as the chief technology officer for Science — a role he’s continuing at Postie.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

PR is an insanely valuable activity in early-stage companies. I’ve been having this PR discussion with three separate portfolio companies at once so I thought I’d just publish my thoughts more broadly. Very few investors understand this and even fewer startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Of course triangulation is a mathematics term that is used in sailing and other activities to help you better navigate when you don’t have your bearings. I like to use the shorthand “triangulate” to symbolize asking multiple people for their opinions to get a better perspective on the route you should take.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 2, 2020

How do you think COVID-19 will change entrepreneurial activity in Los Angeles? It’s true that some startup businesses have been impacted by this pandemic but as we’re learning a few short months in, there has been much more acceleration of the trends leading toward technology growth that were already in place.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2021

You can also follow me on Twitter ] There is no diet or not fitness activity that will help you over the long haul if you don’t have the right mental plan. I mostly talk about startups, technology & venture capital. But for a few weeks will cover health & fitness. It’s super easy to log. The tools are built into the app.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

Which partners are active and which are less active? You can’t try to meet the executive team at Bird to understand the Upfront Ventures partnership dynamics because they’re too damn busy dealing with explosive growth. What do you want to know? How many partners are there? Who in the firm has “pull” to get deals done when they want to?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2021

What we provide can speed diagnosis and reduce a patients level of anxiety, and having the patient actively participating empowers them to make better decisions. Jamey Edwards: We're very excited to see continual digital transformation in the industry, which we are part of, and we're actively expanding our base of hospitals.

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