Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

This statistic is probably not surprising to any business person with first hand experience of workers' comp, especially in ”pro-labor” states like New York and California. we plan and act right, odds are very short that we can devise, build, and market new business models that thrive off of their big innovations.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. Darius Bikoff, who distributed his enhanced drinks to health food stores, independent retailers and mom-and-pop stores in the New York area.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In other news, Wired launched its Integrated business master’s program in collaboration with the University of Southern California. Following the movement is the New York Times, who are launching their certificate programs dubbed “NYT EDUcation” with CIG Education Group.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Eliqs is a Southern California based start-up who creates custom-designed craft beverage cans for any occasion worth celebrating. Creativity helps spark innovation and break the norms in an industry. Eliqs brings innovation by filling a gaping hole through custom-designed labels to make events more colorful.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Operating in Southern California does make it hard to keep up with the flow of information and connections that takes place in the Valley across dinners, parties and happy hours, but Miller said he viewed that as an advantage because it helped him step back and think long-term about the business instead of being swept up in the moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I was president first of Citibank New York, then Citibank Federal Savings Bank, which is all the U.S. A power company wants to know whether they should be burning natural gas or taking power off of the solar grid because it's sunny in Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. I thought about some Southern California angle, because this is where > 50% of my investments are.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Jen Sargent, founder of entertainment news site HitFix, says she can get folks to work for her at much lower rates than the "inflated" fees being offered in Silicon Valley and New York.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

million barrels per day of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from Houston to New York. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California. It was the first cyberattack to expose the risks of America’s energy infrastructure.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Presidents like Steven Sample of the University of Southern California and John Sexton of New York University are proof that visionary leadership is possible in higher education. But they are rare exceptions, which is a real shame.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

That’s two free drinks on this particular one-way trip from New York to California, a $10 value (although not worth suing over ). (Among the ironies on my recent trip to the Middle East and Europe, most quick hops between domestic destinations had WiFi but the long transatlantic flights didn’t.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2014

Last week I got an email last week from a New York VC asking for advice about building a house in the California Coastal Zone. For six and a half years I served as a public official on the California Coastal Commission. The Coastal Act saved California from looking like the coast of New Jersey.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Some come close, like New York or now Boulder but it’s still not quite the same. The term Silicon Valley is now a misnomer – it has moved way beyond silicon and way beyond the original Santa Clara valley to spread all over California. But they don’t quite make it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Gregory Heilers has helped on two startup farms: his father’s 200-acre grass-fed beef and goat farm, which also includes an orchard, a berry patch, and a vegetable garden, with areas set aside for future logging; and on a seven-acre organically grown market garden in upstate New York. He says, ask yourself, “Is it for profit?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

So at this point, one of the things we're most proud of is creating and providing multi-day family meal packs of meals that we're distributing through COVID right now, 100,000 meals a day in New York City at this point. That was our incredible team of operators and partnership team members in the New York and New Jersey region.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

Southern California. One look at sites like socalTECH, which covers tech news for Southern California, and you can see that there’s an ongoing flurry of startup and VC activity in this region. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

With mobile, California takes the top spot for deals and dollars, with New York and Massachusetts following when it comes to mobile deals. Virginia is number two in the amount of funding over the past quarter. You can read the entire CB Insights report here. Image credit: 401(k) 2012/Flickr.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

And we have national deals in New York, DC and Chicago. But we do 50% of our deals in Southern California from San Diego to Santa Barbara and we think that’s part of what makes us special. I even adopted a line early on in our discussions to qualify for this. “Listen. We do a lot of deals in San Francisco.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 17, 2012

In places like Georgia, North Carolina and Arkansas, skilled tech workers can be found for a fraction of what you’d pay in Silicon Valley or New York, according to Rural Sourcing Inc. The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals named near-sourcing one of its top trends for 2012. workers easier and more convenient.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2011

As our economy is organized to extract the maximum revenue and profits from any asset, you wonder why there aren’t condos, hotels, houses, shopping centers and freeways, wall-to-wall for most of it’s length (except in parts of Southern California where there already is.).

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