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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. Focusing on the U.S. They decided that this would be what they would tackle and build as a business.

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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

socalTECH

The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful. The remaining 20 percent are independent film-makers.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? An example of that is the UCLA flood. So, he launched Watsup, and the first thing it showed was a highlight of the UCLA flooding.

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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 Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

socalTECH

There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that. What we do, is regional customer discovery for teams, typically academic. They're also familiar with traditional startup structure.

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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. There is no real room for negotiation, or to let demand drive the pricing on the buyer side. When I graduated from UCLA in 1999, I started working for an accounting firm. That's where we come in.