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Casa Verde Capital Invests In Proper's Sleep Supplements

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Hollywood-based Casa Verde Capital , the venture capital firm run by Snoop Dogg, has led a $9.5M investment in Proper a New York startup which says it is developing "evidence-backed" supplements and personalized coaching to help people sleep.

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Two Local Tech, Investment Executives Named In College Fraud Investigation

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Two people associated with Southern California's high tech investment and startup industry have been named as part of the far reaching investigation into a college admissions scandal , which named Hollywood actresses, CEOs, coaches at USC, UCLA, and UCSD, as well as many others. According to a complaint filed by the U.S.

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UK-based women’s networking and private club, AllBright, raises $18.8 million as it expands into the US

TechCrunch LA

AllBright , the London-based women’s membership club backed by private real estate investment firm Cain International , has raised $18.8 The club’s first American location will be in West Hollywood, and is slated to open in September 2019. million to expand into the U.S.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. In 2012 over $3.2

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

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To go into production, I needed to build hundreds of molds and invest in a cost effective quantity of wheels. These were sports that you taught yourself by watching others, and just pushed yourself to progress for fun, with no coach or parent influencing you. Powell: To experiment, I needed about 10 molds.

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Getting Back Your Series A Mojo

Both Sides of the Table

What I loved about the founding team from day 1 was that the founders were all people who tried to break into Hollywood and found the system closed. I don’t know if I should keep investing in them. I wish more startups would get personal coaches so they could let out their angst to neutral people – not staff, not investors.

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