Imagine the thrill of purchasing your new home combined with the shock of receiving a check in the mail. If it sounds too good to be true, then you should check out proptech startup Padx, a consumer-centric real estate platform. This LA startup pays showing agents a flat fee for each home tour and receive collects a […]
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The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 12/14/18
The latest venture capital, seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 12/14/18 featuring funding details for Vyng.
Disposable Robots Take Flight
Recently, I attended AeroVironment’s presentation of their contribution to NASA’s Mars Helicopter mission. The autonomous vertical-lift drone is remarkably capable of flying through the planet’s thin atmosphere, as demonstrated on Earth in a vacuum chamber by their CEO, Wahid Nawabi. The unmanned aerial craft will provide a bird’s eye view of the Martian landscape to guide the growing fleet of terrestrial […]
LA Tech Week in Review
With so much going on in the thriving LA tech and startup ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the news in the space. We keep you abreast of a few of things that you may have missed in LA Tech news this week including the fundings, exits, and events. CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN LA TECH LAST WEEK […]
Entrepreneurs Can Capitalize On The New Gig Economy
The era of stable lifetime jobs for business professionals within a single company are gone. Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans. Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs. […]
These are the 10 Largest LA Startup Funding Rounds of April 2018
Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the 10 largest startup funding rounds in LA during the month of April. I have included some additional information as well such as industry, brief company description, date of funding, and total equity funding for the company, to further the analysis. For the purposes of […]
Going Far in Entrepreneurship: What Really Matters Most
If you’ve read anything about entrepreneurship you’ve likely come across the quote, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
LA Tech Week in Review
With so much going on in the thriving LA tech and startup ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the news in the space. We keep you abreast of a few of things that you may have missed in LA Tech news this week including the fundings, exits, and events. CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN LA […]
Mastering your To-Do List This Fall: Tips to Finally Get Organized
It’s fall and my inbox knows it. Something sneaky happens every year around this time: some sort of collective hyperdrive sets in, and people start filling up your calendar. Then you’re left wondering why you’re running around from meeting to meeting without a spare moment to focus on your projects and priorities. But what if […]
How to Integrate Your PR and SEO Efforts to Extend Your Digital Reach
In today’s digital marketing landscape, the once separate entities of search engine optimization and public relations are merging to form a new, hybrid department. As Google’s standards on quality content evolved, so too did the link-based strategies digital marketers always relied on to achieve strong search rankings. Google’s adjustments, starting with the Penguin update and […]
The Problem With SEO, Plus Best Practices to Get Ahead
Ahh, the mystical and scary world of search engine optimization, also known as SEO — defined as the process of maximizing the number of visitors to a particular website by ensuring that the site appears high on the list of results returned by a search engine. Clearly pretty important, right? Of course it is it! Who doesn’t […]