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GIGXR Acquires Assets Of Pearson Immersive Learning Group, Finds $1M

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Venice, California-based GIGXR , a new startup, has acquired the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a unit of publishing firm Pearson, and raised $1M in a seed funding round, the company disclosed today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). I’ll give you some of Parachute’s repeat rates later in the post.

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HelloTech: On Demand, In-Home Tech Support Via College Students Near You

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Wolpert is a a local technology investor and technology veteran, who helps run Venice-based startup accelerator AmplifyLA, is a Venture Advisor at Accel Partners, and was Chief Strategy Officer at RealNetworks. I think the big challenge is going to be customer acquisition. in seed funding, which as a seed round goes, is pretty good.

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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

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During this time, Taylor began to read about Facebook’s Oculus acquisition and wondered what that technology could bring to the world. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5 Taylor then set up shop in San Francisco to further his mission. Taylor said.

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