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

TechCrunch LA

to date, the company said that it saw an 188% growth in annual recurring revenue compared to a year ago, with more than 25,000 individuals in 2,000 salons and spas in the country now using its platform. Roughly half used some software on premises or in the cloud, but none of it did the trick both for the salons or their customers.

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles.

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful. Hollywood's an old industry, used to doing business in traditional ways.

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. He built & IPOd Demand Media. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

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The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. I went to UCLA Business School, and just graduated this past June. What's Scripped? That is the way to attract writers.

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