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Hydra Restructures Firm In Buyout

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Beverly Hills-based Hydra Network , an online performance-based ad network, has been restructured in a deal where an investor group, Hydra Group led by Hydra founder and CEO, Zac Bradenberg, is purchasing the assets of Hydra LLC , the original owner of the ad network. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Green Dot Up 22.2 Percent In IPO

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Monrovia-based Green Dot , the provider of prepaid credit cards which hit the market today, closed up 22.2 The firm had debuted on the market Thursday morning at $36.00 Tags: green merger acquisition gdot tech coast angels. percent in its IPO, at $43.99. per share, above initial estimates of $32.00 READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Linked IPOs Grow

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The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

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However, being that I started a tutoring agency when I was 18, Beverly Hills Academics, I was able to understand the logistics on how to operate hyper-locally from the beginning, so HeyTutor could spend money on developing a platform where we knew exactly what we were doing. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high.

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BloomNation's Goal To Empower Your Local Florist, And Improve Flower Delivery

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Farbod Shoraka: My background is actually in mergers and acquisition advisory. I got to see how different marketing and middlemen in the industry, such as Teleflora, 1-800-Flowers, and FTD, operate. If you type in flowers in Beverly Hills, you won''t see any organic results for the big businesses. READ MORE>>.

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What I Learned In 2015: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. We were really focused on customer acquisition. Did you take investment initially? Fundraising was something we just weren't investing in. How did the company start? You would not have heard of it, because it was very small.