socalTECH

JULY 7, 2021

Los Angeles-based e-sports organization Gen.G is powering a new Minecraft build competition for casual footwear brand Crocs, the two said today. According to the companies, Crocs is launching a new Minecraft competition called Build Your Life in Color, which will be judged by a number of gaming influencers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

The “doers” in your organization. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. If you hire truly talented people you end up definitionally with a lot of competitive peers who will inevitably jockey for resources and control. Extremely talented people are ultra competitive.

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2021

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, which organizes and runs competitions which spur teams to compete to solve major challenges to humanity, says it has selected 38 teams for the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition. The group said those teams came from 16 countries.

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Competition Los Angeles Organization Help 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Too much emphasis on organic growth can become a straightjacket that leads only to incremental innovation and limited horizons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Of course, as you work with contract players, explore the potential for a long-term relationship, and wait until your organization matures to pursue career positions. Focus on a very flat organization, with minimal hierarchy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

A business startup is not an academic environment, or a big company research organization. They are attracted to people who agree, but may not be able to help. Evaluate their problem-solving ability in the context of your business. Practical problem solving, and communicating to business people, is often a big challenge for technical experts.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Esports league organizer PlayVS announced Sept. 19 it raised a $50 million Series C to hire more staff and further its reach into amateur esports competitions.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Think of it as Bloomberg for marketers, in a way that gives smaller companies and teams as much firepower as larger organizations to help them optimize spend across channels and identify new, high-performing opportunities. Founders, marketers and growth leaders?—?join join the Trust waitlist here.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, which operates a number of competitions aimed at encouraging advancement in key technology areas, says a Grand Prize Winner has been named in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Although that is still a good idea in many cases, there is a recent alternative available to some entrepreneurs on a competitive basis that seems most attractive and positive. I used to tell them to find a partner with knowledge in business creation and management.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

” Case studies get done with ebullient CEO’s espousing the benefits of said software even though their organization was barely using the product. Every consultant was pitching a process for reinventing your organization through BI. ROI studies were published. Surely there must be some benefit here?? Sales Startup Lessons'

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

In our video we discussed leadership topics such as managing product and engineering teams, communication and company organization. Company Organization. I asked Nanea about how she differentiates between managing engineers and product managers across her organization. Have a listen and see for yourself.

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Technical Review Blogging RSS Organization 315

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

One great source for coaches is among fellow members of a CEO roundtable organization, Young Presidents Organization or similar association where you are comfortable with the coach candidate and know something about his or her style. Another is through industry associations or civic groups such as Rotary or Lions Club.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. What is Tilofy about? Ali Khoshgozaran: Tilofy comes from location and unify.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges? But we also organize ourselves around practice areas and have done for the past 7 years and these include: SaaS, Cyber Security, FinTech, Computer Vision, Sustainability, Healthcare, Marketplace businesses, Video Games? That never would have happened 10 years ago.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Numerous individuals and organizations leverage the insights from The TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks to enhance their framework’s performance. btw: xitca-web (bench code not including dependencies) does not do 2,3,5 and still remains competitive in micro bench can be used as a reference.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

The company raised $46 million last year—its first year operating—with the vision that owning the infrastructure for competitions and expanding it to encompass other social elements of gaming can make it the largest gaming company in the world. Eric P: What then drove you to found PlayVS?

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Berkonomics

JULY 27, 2017

All companies whether service or product-oriented must fight to gain and maintain quality of product, or fall to the bottom of the competitive heap. Next week we will focus upon product quality and its effects upon the organization. We have explored feature-functionality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2022

The core message is that real innovation and competitive advantage are more people-based than product or process-based. Every good entrepreneur needs a people-centric focus to ferret out creativity and innovation in his team, and to build a sustainable competitive advantage. They often ask “Why?” Challenge the status quo.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. If you don’t have somebody inside your organization who is setting the technology direction then I’m convinced you’ll never head for greatness. However, it is one of the more critical roles as you scale your organization.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , the organization which launches prize-based competitions to spur the development of advancements in technology, says it is trying something new in its prize efforts--a new, $25,000 prize open to any individual who refers someone who ultimately goes on to win a grand prize in an XPRIZE competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 7, 2019

a Santa Monica company that organizes amateur e-sports competitions, filed a $25 million initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission Jan. Super League Gaming Inc.,

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE announced a brand new competition, the $10M Rainforest XPRIZE. The organization suggested that using such technologies as robotics, remote sensing, data analysis, artificial intelligence, and machine learning might be useful in this area. The deadline for teams to register for the effort is June 30th.

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Artificial Inteligence Competition Study Organization 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2019

The Cleantech Open , the Los Angeles-based effort which is helping clean technology startups with acceleration, support resources, and more--run by the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)--is one of a number of organizations which have received part of a $1 million grant total from the Wells Fargo Foundation. READ MORE>>.

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Incubator Los Angeles Organization Resource 133

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In short, the VC industry is very sharp-elbowed amongst some very competitive people who are used to winning and most deals don’t have enough space to share investment rounds so people were naturally pretty quick to judge A16Z. Do they win competitive deals? to “Jeez — they sure are hiring a ton of staff. Can that really work?”

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Venture Capital Invest Funding Competition 264

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based videogame publisher Riot Games has created a brand new organization to govern college esports, called the Riot Scholastic Association of America (RSAA). According to Riot Games, the new organization will be the governing body for Riot's college and high school esports activity. READ MORE>>.

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Riot Games Organization Competition Conference 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage. Some customers and stakeholders don’t just prefer that an organization is socially responsible, but insist on dealing only with these startups. That’s a real competitive edge that you can use in your marketing and positioning.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 30, 2020

Some companies that belong to the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), a large industry trade group, convene diverse hiring committees, seek out representation among their suppliers and vendors, and are led by executives that talk regularly about the importance of an inclusive workforce. To that end, BIO established.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The thing that fuels this success is the amazing organizations and people from around the world who align and support the mission to build businesses. These organizations work tirelessly in guiding and supporting startup teams to success, regardless of their stage of business, as well as continue to encourage innovation across the planet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2020

Encourage team-members to play to their own strengths so that the entire team and organization leads the competition. Instead of knives-out competition, these companies thrive by building a successful community with shared values. Every individual in the organization is a contributor. Pain increases over time.

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Organization Competition Entrepreneur Startup 149

InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2014

Competition – Make it clear that only the best interns will be granted offers for full-time positions. An explicitly competitive environment will cause the high-achievers to excel. At Expertcity, we organized off-site field trips to nearby Santa Cruz island where we conducted a variety of team-building exercises.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2022

Once your business is running and sustainable , everyone these days expects it to grow, as an indication of long-term health and competitiveness. Keep your company focused on the business areas and functions that fit your strategic direction, by periodically eliminating non-contributing activities, organizations, and business units.

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Organization Acquisition Competition Resource 128

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, which runs competition to spur technology development to help solve world challenges, and the Musk Foundation--the charity organization funded by Elon Musk--says it has awarded $5M across 23 different student teams, to help them compete in the larger $100M XPRIZE for Carbon Removal.

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Competition Los Angeles Organization Funding 113

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Unlike a lot of grants on this list, the competition is open to all US small businesses, as long as they have fewer than 99 employees, have been operating for at least six months, and have a FedEx business account that's been open before September 1, 2023. It's competitive though – last year 18,000 applicants competed for only 12 slots.

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