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Topspin In Major Layoffs, Says Report

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Los Angeles-based music software startup Topspin has laid off a "significant" amount of staff, according to reports , with a majority of the company''s staff getting the pink slip. The startup offered up web-based apps to help artists and labels reach their fans. topspin music media layoff jobs employment software' READ MORE>>.

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Syndio, With Co-Founder In LA, Snags $7.5M

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Syndio , a developer of software being used by companies to help fix pay inequities in the workplace--and whose co-founder is based in LA--has raised $7.5M Syndio's headquarters are in Seattle, but co-founder and Chief Data Scientist Zev Eigen is based in Los Angeles. in a Series A funding. The company's CEO is Maria Colacurcio.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). But while I prefer a certain naive optimism in founders I can’t see the logic that this extends to angel investors. Either downside scenario requires angel deals to be funded further.

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Report: ShoeDazzle Cuts Staff

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Los Angeles-based ShoeDazzle has cut a significant amount of its staff, according to sources, saying that the company had "major layoffs" Thursday morning. ShoeDazzle's public relations firm could not comment on the report, and the company had yet to reply to requests forwarded to them at press time. READ MORE>>.

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Insights: 7 Tips to Help Jobless Americans Persevere

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For our Insights & Opinions section today, John McKee, a Los Angeles resident and former executive at DirecTV, and currently an author and business coach, gives seven tips to the currently unemployed on how to persevere through - and even make the most of - this difficult time. Tags: jobs employment layoff opinions insights.

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Beachmint Looks Towards A Strong Future, As It Reorganizes, Refocuses On Basics

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The celebrity-driven e-commerce firm, which is based in Los Angeles, hit a rough patch last year with a major layoff, and even as recently as this week has been in the midst of reorganizing and restructuring its operations, streamlining operations, and letting go of people that haven't been a match to the company.

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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures

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We had to do a reduction-in-force and layoff early in our career, and I thought we were done. For me, being able to name it, and talk about it, has been incredibly helpful. What's the hardest part of being a startup entrepreneur? I think that the hardest thing for me, generally, is that emotional resilience. That's not any one thing.