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Retention Science Snags $7M

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Angels Brian Lee (Honest Company, LegalZoom), Michael Dubin (Dollar Shave Club), Tamim Mourad (PriceGrabber.com) and Andy Dunn (Bonobos) also participated in the funding. retargeting advertising analytics software capital venture science retention' The new funding was led by Upfront Ventures, and also included. READ MORE>>.

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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media

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We now have over 100 million users visiting our owned and operated sites, and we're also doing this for other people like USA Today. For Legalzoom, it's a very different model. We bought sites, built a studio system, and now we're figuring out what different formats to approach. That's the next big challenge for us.

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses.

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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Plus, younger attorneys understand technology, and are used to sites like eBay, Etsy, and others like that. That''s why people turn to Legalzoom and Docstoc, and use those free documents because they just don''t want to deal with lawyers. So, advertising and targeting people who need you at the right time is the biggest problem.

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Interview with Jeff Zwelling, Convertro

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Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. If you did nothing, you'd just site in the unhappy state -- you basically had to say you were unhappy to get taken care of. What kind of customers are using the tool? Jeff Zwelling: Today, we have lots of e-commerce and online subscription customers.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Brian Lee – LegalZoom, ShoeDazzle. His first company, LegalZoom was founded with Robert Shapiro, part of the team that successfully exonerated OJ Simpson, instantly giving his company credibility unheard of in the start up community.