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Announcing the agenda for TC Sessions: AR/VR in LA on October 18

TechCrunch LA

TechCrunch is heading to UCLA on October 18 and we’ve assembled some of the AR/VR industry’s most prescient founders, investors and executives to chat about the startups and trends driving virtual and augmented reality in 2018. UCLA, Los Angeles // October 18. Early Bird tickets are still on sale for one more week.

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NanoH2O Bolsters Execs

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based NanoH2O , the clean technology startup developing reverse osmosis membranes for water desalination, announced this morning that it has hired Randy Truber as Director of Global Sales Strategies. Truby joins the firm from Toray Membranes USA, and also has served at Fluid Systems and Hydranautics. READ MORE>>.

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Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings

TechCrunch LA

This round is being led by Point72 Private Investments, with previous backers Toba Capital, Index Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, BoxGroup, and VMG Partners also participating. trillion, and the spa sector passing $150 billion, both by 2025. They decided that this would be what they would tackle and build as a business.

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Burn the bridges behind.

Berkonomics

I never took a business course, never wrote a business plan, and never raised any outside capital. My sales tax payments were due in the next few days, and I didn’t have the money. But I did have an appointment, a sales opportunity the next morning. I made the sale, and paid my debts. But there’s more.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

That includes Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and others. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. What do your apps do?

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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

Balgrosky, a health information administrator and former Scripps Health chief information officer, was finishing her doctorate in health policy and management at UCLA. Just a few months earlier, Hinshaw had sold his private healthcare IT consulting company, MaxIT Healthcare, to government contractor SAIC for $473 million.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales.

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