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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

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We went to junior high school and UCLA together. We were seniors at UCLA, and both of us in very different areas. Ann Wang: Thanks to the recent Forbes competition, and a lot of momentum from that, we actually are opening up a round for seed funding in the next month or two. How did you get together with your cofounder?

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TX Zhuo Talks About LA's Newest Venture Fund, Karlin Ventures

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We don't need for you to be breakeven company, but a business with paying customers is great validation in itself. I think the right team and network are very important, as is traction, validated by customers. They're pretty competitive about deals. TX Zhuo: I consider us a late seed investor. Experience is a big thing for you?

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. It's fun an effective.

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. Do your customers understand the need for your product, and has that been an issue? First off, for those not familiar with Marketshare -- what is it that you do?

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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. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA. We were also really happy when we first launched our beta at UCLA. TB: Well we went to UCLA and loved the weather here!