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

TechCrunch LA

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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Enrou: Combining Causes and Commerce To Help Improve The World

socalTECH

That''s where we entered the scene, as a platform for that particular type of organization. We went to junior high school and UCLA together. We were seniors at UCLA, and both of us in very different areas. They were doing great work, but they had no e-commerce or marketing team to get them out there. What''s your big goal now?

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

socalTECH

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments.

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Interview with Wes Brodsky, SaveFans

socalTECH

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. When I graduated from UCLA in 1999, I started working for an accounting firm. It is now very, very customer friendly. Describe SaveFans and what it does? We allow buyers to make offers to sellers.

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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

Tech Zulu Event

Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. You take all the photos and videos and upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Vine, and other social media platforms and experience the event through the eyes of the crowd. But the list is increasing as we are supporting more and more social media platforms.

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

socalTECH

Lawyers on the platform love the experience. We also have a couple of grad school interns from LMU, UCLA, and elsewhere. Michael Chasin: The most challenging part of any startup is getting in front of people, and finding customers. It''s a closed marketplace, behind closed doors. It''s more of a silent auction.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly. million in SF Bay Area ). Hit some bumps in the road?