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Interview with Michael Dubin, Dollar Shave Club

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles startup Dollar Shave Club (www.dollarshaveclub.com) made a huge splash with its launch of a subscription, monthly delivery service for razor blades. Dollar Shave Club came to me about two years ago, in December of 2010, when I met my co-founder, who was my friend's fiancĀ's father.

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Dollar Shave's TV Push Powered By Convertro

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Fans of Los Angeles subscription razor firm Dollar Shave Club might have noticed a lot of the firm recently on television. Media Design Group has been working with Dollar Shave Club to measure how well TV advertising is working for the company. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Sees Summertime Surge In Exits

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billion--include the recent sales of Vizio , Dollar Shave Club , Nervana Systems , TouchCommerce , and Orbitera , and Aurrion. The exit activity has been far and wide across the region, ranging from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and providing stunning returns for a large list of venture and angel investors in those companies.

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Enjoius Gets $1.4M For Online Party Planning Site

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Los Angeles-based Enjoius , an online party planning website, has raised $1.4M in a seed funding round.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

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Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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Quarterly Gets Funding From Science

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Los Angeles-based subscription box service Quarterly , which develops unique gift boxes every three months from such influencers as Pharrell Williams, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and actress Rosario Dawson, has raised a round of funding and connected with Los Angeles-based Science Inc. Size of the investment was not disclosed.

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Reflections On 2017: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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Michael has been behind such companies as HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). He is Los Angeles's most active angel investor with more than $2.5B Today, we have a contribution from Michael Jones , the CEO of Science Inc.