This LA Startup Brings You The Shoppable Magazine
To the Tens, led by Paul Ahn, enables socially-shared content to be linked to actual products, so each visual story has a full breakdown of the products in it.
View ArticleHow Accepting Bitcoin Can Help Your Business
While you may have heard about Bitcoin, you may not realize that this alternative form of payment could benefit your business. In first describing how this cryptocurrency works for payments, it’s very...
View ArticleThis LA Startup Raised $15M to Win at eSports
Video gaming often gets lumped together with other un-social activities, when in fact gaming has shifted and is consistently bringing people together. At the head of this charge is Super League Gaming,...
View Article3 Ways to Protect Your Brand from Fake News and Other Fraud
Fake news is not new. It has been around since the invention of print some 500 years ago. It was used to sensationalize and inflame passions and prejudices, a trend that’s carried over into our current...
View Article9 Steps to Get People to Fall in Love With Your Brand
Take user feedback to heart, even if it’s not what you wanted to hear. As a strategist, my goal has always been to know my customer and extract what “must haves” matters to them. This means: Search for...
View Article6 Key Elements Of Marketing Content To Fuel A Launch
Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. Yet it is the one element that too many entrepreneurs...
View ArticleHave it Made: The Basics of the Manufacturing Process
During a recent episode of Fashion Is Your Business, with Nora Levinson and Soyoung Park of Caeden, Pavan asked Nora to walk through the process of getting their headphones and/or their bracelet...
View ArticleLA Startup FloQast Raised $25M to So That Accountants Wont Have to Think...
No accountant likes the month-end-close, and while many attempts have been made to address this pain point, no one is helping you close faster and more reliably than FloQast. FloQast, the SaaS...
View ArticleWhy Some Fashion Brands Release One Product at a Time
Before it became the menswear ecommerce behemoth that it is today, Bonobos began by selling one product: better-tailored khaki pants. Founders Andy Dunn and Brian Spaly wanted to solve a couple of...
View ArticleSales vs. Branding
This one is really interesting and I have been thinking a lot about going deeper into the details to differentiate the articles I am sharing. I want to give you a piece that is going to be all about...
View Article6 Thoughts Following An Epic Week Going Down The Cryptocurrency Rabbit Hole
It was an epic week in cryptoland, highlighted by the rapid rise in the value of Bitcoin Cash and the innovative and successful ICO of Ox, a decentralized crypto exchange. The total market cap of...
View ArticleThis LA Startup Asks Why Should Retail Stores Not Be Able to Track Customers?
When it comes to tracking customers, brick and mortar shops haven’t necessarily advanced with the advent of new technologies. Bridg’s platform is a solution that allows for companies to leverage their...
View Article10 Startups That you Need to Know About From XRC Labs Demo Day
The death of retail is greatly exaggerated. XRC Labs hosted demo day for its fourth cohort, which includes ten innovative startups that are changing the face of retail. Since launching two years ago,...
View ArticleLA Startup Maestro Just Raised $3M to Broadcast eSports at Scale
As eSports explodes to service the 2.6B gamers worldwide, live streaming has hit a critical inflection point. Maestro, the enterprise broadcast platform for content producers, is capitalizing on this...
View ArticleThese are the 10 HealthTech Startups in The Latest Cedars-Sinai Accelerator...
Our friends at Cedars-Sinai Accelerator unveiled its latest class, its 3rd for those counting, for the three-month accelerator program. The digital health accelerator focuses on companies...
View ArticleGame Over: How Mobile Games Conquered Hollywood
The biggest and most powerful entertainment companies are no longer film studios or cable companies, but mobile gaming companies. And it’s no wonder, people do everything on their smartphones and spend...
View ArticleThis LA Startup Just Raised $7M To Make Student Loans a Benefit and not a Burden
The amount of outstanding student loans in this country numbers a staggering $1.4T (Trillion with a T). This has the potential to be a very large problem. At the same time, competition amongst...
View ArticleSimple, Successful Marketing Strategies for Entrepreneurs on a Budget
Having participated in building numerous startups, I’ve seen many founders spend too much on their marketing efforts out of a perceived need that they have to spend money to make money (and get...
View Article3 Ways You Can Improve Your Student Ambassador Program
Red Bull, Victoria Secret, Dell and Coca-Cola are a few of the brands that have been running “campus rep programs” for years —that is, hiring a student to carry out a marketing plan to their peers on...
View ArticleThis LA Startup is Humanizing Healthcare
Medicine as a field does not just treat illnesses — it treats human beings. In providing care for these patients, there are some complications that arrive that get in the way of quality care. That’s...
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