The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 10/27/2020 featuring funding details for Ordermark, Haystack, and much more.
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/26/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 10/26/2020 featuring funding details for Follow Me 4 Equity and much more.
LA Tech Week in Review: 10/18/20-10/24/20
Where We Are Investing Now: Neuroscience
Neuroscience has always been a focus area for Social Starts and Joyance Partners and should continue to be due to the large and clear unmet need. Stress, anxiety, mental illness, and their associated impacts are at all-time highs. People seem desperate for solutions. Science points toward many potential new approaches. We also recognize that there […]
5 Factors Which Define the Scope of Your Competition
In 1979, Michael E. Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces.
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 10/26/20
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup fundings for the week ending 10/24/20 featuring funding details for Intellimize, Pulley, FinLocker, and fifteen more rounds you must know about.
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/23/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 10/23/2020 featuring funding details for BeeMetal and much more.
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/22/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 10/22/2020 featuring funding details for PacketFabric and much more
What New Brands Need to Know
Many emerging entrepreneurs understand one thing: they need to build a brand. A business is much more than the goods and/or services you provide. Your business is your relationship with your customers, your reputation in the marketplace, and what people think of when they think of your company. All of this equals brand. The problem is, while many people understand what a brand is, they don’t understand how to build one themselves. Keep reading to find out what I think most new brands need to know.
HireHuman Reimagines How to Fund a Startup by Launching Ballot Bevs Just in Time for the Election
Raising capital for a startup is hard and can be grueling. Drawing inspiration from MailChimp and Airbnb, two companies that took an unconventional approach to initial funding, Michael Fisher, CEO and Cofounder of HireHuman, a video recruitment platform for customer service, launched Ballot Bevs, a collection of limited-edition, election-themed coffee and tea boxes to drive revenue to bootstrap HireHuman. Fisher shares more about the imminent launch of HireHuman, Ballot Bev’s impressive traction heading into the election, and the motivation behind delaying institutional funding.
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/21/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 10/21/2020 featuring funding details for Output, 3Diligent, and much more.