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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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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

Bring in an experienced Board and world-class leaders. Switch your focus from product development to sales. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management.

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7 Ways To Highlight Your Personal Value To Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to show that you have a powerful team, and can attract and lead people with strong skills complimentary to yours for marketing, finance, sales, and operations. You need to show you have a “Plan B,” and a never-give-up mindset, in handling any competitive threat or customer reaction. Never underestimate the power of you.

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United Dwelling is one startup building something to solve California’s housing crisis

TechCrunch LA

The problem with other companies building pre-fabricated or modular homes for what are called accessory dwelling units on California properties is that they’re not being built for middle-class homeowners. “Homeowners have this valuable property which is a detached two-car garage,” said Dietz.