Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Communications.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Phase 2 California + NYC (2015-2017). And at the same time, came upon a handful of amazing opportunities in Southern California (two in LA, one in San Diego). As we started investing out of our second fund in the middle of 2015 we felt like we had our sea legs under us operationally.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

The Carson, California company employs about 800 people in its 4 Southern California plants. Today, CedarLane is the largest family-owned and operated national frozen food brand in the U.S. CedarLane offers a wide variety of all-natural fresh and frozen, ready-made meals. 2 – Stranded.

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San Diego Entrepreneur Software Review Southern California 109

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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Party Pieces grew rapidly and the Middletons moved their operations to three converted farm buildings outside of London.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

A one-person operation will need something quick and easy to use, while an organization that has an in-house bookkeeper or accounting team won’t have that same limitation. ERPs tend to be pricey and complex, and may require an advanced understanding of accounting to operate, so this may be overkill when you’re starting out.

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Software Small Business Southern California San Francisco 59

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Special Operations Command) to continue prototyping over the summer. Result: Seven schools have already added Hacking for Defense classes: UC San Diego, University of Pittsburg, University of Southern California, Stanford, University of Rochester, Georgia Tech and Georgetown University. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 128

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Special Operations Command) to continue prototyping over the summer. Result: Seven schools have already added Hacking for Defense classes: UC San Diego, University of Pittsburg, University of Southern California, Stanford, University of Rochester, Georgia Tech and Georgetown University. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

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

What that means is that If you're running a utility company, an airline, or let's say, even a railroad, the data that comes off of your equipment is invaluable to running your operation more efficiently. In fact, there's a term now, it's called, "OT," as in operations technology.

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Southern California North America Finance Lean 123

Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

She holds a Master of Science degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from College of William & Mary. Prior to graduate school, Elizabeth was a strategy & operations consultant at Deloitte Consulting focusing on large healthcare clients.

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Early Growth Financial Services

AUGUST 22, 2013

Effective immediately, Gadiel Morantes will serve as the VP of Sales, responsible for business development and sales, specifically focusing on EGFS’s robust client list and esteemed business partners in the Bay Area and Southern California.

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Southern California San Francisco Partner Sales 28

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Companies like Warehouse Now have developed digital platforms leveraging AI to help warehousing and supply chain businesses streamline their capital-expenditure (capex) intensive, highly underutilized real estate warehouse assets to operational expenditure (opex) based, just-in-time, highly efficient supply chain management assets.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 142

Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

I can’t imagine encouraging an entrepreneur to follow in my path, but for me, operating alone with no board of advisors, no business plan and no outside capital, I was making it up as I went. Ours was a 2-man operation in those earliest of days; I knew nothing of quality assurance. But there was something else at work here.

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Southern California Customer Software California 48

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Banks often have operating covenants for their loans that require the company to be hitting plan, or close to it. Whereas most Christmas Tree vendors sell dead trees, the Living Christmas Company instead rents live trees and delivers them to local customers in Southern California.

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Covenant Warrant Southern California Los Angeles 156

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

In addition to law, Stuart was involved in various business ventures, including building subdivisions, as well as owning or operating restaurants, a grocery store, and a farm. In order to operate according to their vision, Red Wagon had to comply with every regulation, from permits to labeling and more.

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Oregon Prospectus Southern California California 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

My parents and my brother live in Southern California. We're no longer operating at the speed of government. We're operating at the speed of need in this because people are there to just do it. So I'm lucky to have that. My brother is actually a surgeon.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

I’ve been involved with several amazing companies throughout Northern and Southern Cal; I have expanded, launched, M&A’d, relaunched, liquidated, succeeded and failed, you name it. There’s a seriousness, a buzz, confidence, reliability, completeness, professionalism.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Talk to the farm down the street about how they’re using their hilly, forested land to plan for a future logging operation. You can learn more about the small farm classification system from the USDA’s website, but so long as you’re within the $0-$350,000 bracket, you can guarantee your operation will be classified as a small farm business.

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Colorado Southern California Business Plan Oregon 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California. In SoCal we have great operators like Klaus Schauser , John Greathouse , Matt Coffin , Kamran Pourzanjani and others. What gives? Am I a hypocrite?

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Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

As you can see, this 3-tier system provides the framework within which your future craft beer business must operate. There are basic administrative tasks that all businesses must complete in order to legally operate. Other breweries hire in mobile canning services like The Beer Monks of Southern California.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

As I later discovered, Joe’s first act was 24 years in the Army Special Operations Forces (SOF), retiring as a Colonel. Putting theory into practice, he went to Iraq in 2008 as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, in support of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. He did a tour with the 75th Ranger Regiment as a platoon leader.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Over the next year it will expand to 22 universities.

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Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 163

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

And then we also looked at our operations and said, "We have a footprint across the US that can produce and distribute millions of meals every week, fresh meals to 400 cities and towns at incredibly affordable prices given the way we have cost optimized our footprint and our program." Must feel like 100 years ago now.

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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. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. When the companies merged, those operations also merged. Let’s talk about Revolution’s operation.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 182

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work.

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Fresno Community Technology California 60

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The Southern California Tody car dealership in is forced to waste its mantra on explaining how to properly pronounce its name (“Not Toady… its Todey (toddy)”). infoChachkie. Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. There does seem to be some shifts on where the money is going. A few more stats make that picture look worse.

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