Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
BMW introduced subscription fees for their cars, creating revolutionary changes in the conservative automotive community. Joe Coulombe had an idea after running a small chain of convenience stores in southern California. When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine. #16- Subscription service by BMW.
View from Seed
AUGUST 30, 2016
First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively. They’re All in California. At Alignable, we see this as a huge opportunity, and so we consider ourselves a Boston company trying to “pull off a California,” if you will. Any of these ring a bell?
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March. If something like that happens, you want to close everything, because it's a community spread. So it's the first time in my life that I pushed this to all my networks as hard as I could, and I was also very aggressive on the viral mechanics that I plugged into it.
Hunter Walker
JUNE 20, 2017
Indivisible started as a viral Google Doc, which is just an amazing story. They are not “astroturf” or “paid protesters” — they are real constituents, leading real resistance efforts in their communities. We have over 900 groups in California alone, and we want to support them, and the rest across the country.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 6, 2020
We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. Alpha Lee : Yeah, it's been good so far. Eric Ries : Amen to that. Alpha Lee : Yeah.
Austin Startup
APRIL 26, 2020
Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. And don’t get me started on how great of a job Netflix does in creating high switching costs (or “community stickiness”) with all of its great ratings and social networking features. The power of word of mouth cemented their reputation. It worked, big time.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 2, 2020
By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. There's been a real sense of community built in the company that I think has been helpful in getting everybody through. Eric Ries : Celine, how about you? Celine Halioua : Yeah. Fred Turner : Yes.
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