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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. Danna and his co-founder, CTO Sean Stavropoulos, previously worked together at Fullscreen as head of product and head of engineering, respectively.

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How We Won $50,000 Award in SBA Growth Accelerator Fund Contest

Xconomy

Small Business Administration as a Growth Accelerator Fund Competition winner. It also got me thinking about what was important for winning this competition. The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. Would they build a world class team. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. Were they ambitious? Did they have the right skills?

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. Each of your angels or seed investors may have 20-30 investments. What Rob wrote in his post is right. After all, you don’t ask, you don’t get.

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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

Tech Zulu Event

Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer. Sergey’s diverse experience as an entrepreneur, technology consultant and software executive qualifies him to lead amSTATZ’s technology development. Jenna can also search for local events, boot camps, or fitness classes. Any competition in LA?

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

We wanted to be able to invest in our software and our learning tools. We've been toying with taking an investment for the last three or four years, and were able to meet with the guys at Kennet, and Javier Rojas. If you're teaching classes of 32 maybe even 37 students, it's difficult to know where students are.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Who do you view as your biggest competition? We wanted investment partners that understood performance marketing and what it was like to be an entrepreneur from having done it before themselves. You’re right.

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