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JUNE 15, 2020

Los Angeles-based LegalZoom , which provides online legal help and documents, says it has named Nicole Miller as the company's General Counsel. LegalZoom said Miller will lead the company's legal organization and provide strategic guidance on compliance, risk management, and corporate governance. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Los Angeles-based LegalZoom.com , a provider of web-based, legal documents, is eyeing a major expansion in Texas, with the location of 600 new jobs in Austin, according to the City of Austin. Tags: documents legal austin texas jobs employment legalzoom. The city is now taking public comments on the incentive proposal. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Los Angeles-based legal filings and services site LegalZoom has settled a trademark and antitrust suit filed against the company by competitor LegalForce RAPC Worldwide , the operator of a trademark and patent filing service, Trademarkia.com , according to a legal filing from the two companies this week, according to reports.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

A new, technology startup accelerator modeled after the TechStars venture incubator in Boulder said today it has launched, and will bring business acceleration to Los Angeles.

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JULY 17, 2013

H.Bloom , the luxury, subscription floral and gift delivery service backed by Shoedazzle''s Brian Lee, is expanding into Los Angeles today, saying that it will begin offering its services starting today. The company''s most notable investor is Brian Lee, the founder of ShoeDazzle and LegalZoom. Lee was a seed investor in H.Bloom.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

A new, Los Angeles startup, myRight , is hoping to help users with some basic legal questions, through a new service geared around asking users questions-and-answers about their legal questions. Have a legal question? READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

The love affair between Los Angeles startups combining e-commerce and celebrity continues unbated today, as a new, Santa Monica-based startup headed by actress Jessica Alba --and backed by Brian Lee , the founder of LegalZoom and ShoeDazzle--unveiled itself to the world.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

MyTime , which operates an online service focused on online deals for appointment-focused businesses like chiropractors, personal trainers, housekeeping, and more, has raised a round of funding to expand its service beyond Los Angeles. GRP's Mark Suster said the round was worth $3M, with GRP putting up most of the funds.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Online, eco-family products company The Honest Company , started by celebrity Jessica Alba and Los Angeles e-commerce master Brian Lee, said late Friday that it has raised $27M in funding. The funding was led by General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2013

A move by the City of Los Angeles to shut down ridesharing and transportation services Uber , Lyft , and Sidecar has spurred some consumer backlash, with a new campaign on Change.org to get LA to repeal the cease and desist order from its tax administration bureau. angeles politics uber lyft sidecar technology rideshare transportation taxi'

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MAY 3, 2011

A set of three, well known Los Angeles investors with military connections are funding a new startup, Troopswap.com , focused on providing daily deals to the military community.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based ShoeDazzle , the online personalized shopping site headed by Brian Lee, said today that it has named Hope W. The firm's business team includes Robert Shapiro and Brian Lee, who co-founded LegalZoom. Neiman as Chief Marketing Officer. Neiman has also served at P90X, Disney, and Right Start. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2011

Los Angeles-based ShoeDazzle.com , the online shoe buying club headed by Brian Lee, the founder of LegalZoom, has raised $40M in a new funding round. The funding was led by Andreessen-Horowitz, and also included the firm's prior investors.

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JULY 17, 2013

Los Angeles has always been a major market for launching products, and in the era of e-commerce has become highly attractive for its large consumer population, a technology-savvy population, and affinity for new products and services. Why Los Angeles as your next market? They clearly also have a high concentration in Los Angeles.

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APRIL 12, 2012

New York-based online subscription flower delivery service H.Bloom , whose backers include Los Angeles entrepreneur Brian Lee , who founded ShoeDazzle and LegalZoom, has scored another round of funding, the firm said Thursday. Lee was an existing angel investor in the company. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The Honest Company is one of the most closely watched e-commerce companies in Los Angeles--not because of Jessica Alba, but because of co-founder Brian Lee, who has a long track record of growing and successful companies in the region. Lee also headed up LegalZoom, and also runs ShoeDazzle.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based SocialAnnex , a startup helping online retailers to use social media to spur sales, has scored a round of funding from a who's who of Southern California technology angels, the firm said Tuesday. According to SocialAnnex, Kamran Pourzanjani of PriceGrabber.com, Brian S.

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JULY 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based Teeology , the latest startup backed by tech entrepreneur Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), has started signing up users today, telling people via email and Twitter that they can now sign up for the service.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

The filing of an IPO by Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless on Friday seems to indicate the interest in public markets by venture-backed, Southern California firms has not abated. The filing comes on the heels of Demand Media 's kickoff of its roadshow to Wall Street on Wednesday, after it set an initial pricing range on its own IPO offering.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The Honest Company , the Los Angeles-based e-commerce company founded by Brian Lee and celebrity Jessica Alba, has raised $25M more in a funding round, the firm said this morning. Lee is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in such companies as LegalZoom and ShoeDazzle. The Honest Company has now raised $58M in funding.

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MAY 17, 2011

Last week's $40M funding by Andreessen Horowitz of Los Angeles-based ShoeDazzle , the monthly fashion, shoe and pursue startup headed by LegalZoom founder Brian Lee, was driven by parallels to a 1920's startup--the Book of the Month Club.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

which has most of its employees in Westlake Village; Los Angeles-based Gamefly ; City of Industry-based NewEgg ; San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies ; and Thousand Oaks-basd Nexsan. Other firms currently in registration include Santa Monica-based Demand Media ; San Diego-based Zogenix ; Inphi Corp.

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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. Santa Monica-based Retention Science , the marketing software technology maker led by Jerry Jao, has snagged $7M in a Series A funding, according to the company.

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MARCH 13, 2013

PublishThis , the Los Angeles startup headed by Matt Kumin, has enhanced the firm's online, content marketing and curation management tool. The firm said the latest version of its platform is aimed at brands, retailers, media companies, and trade associations, to help them scale their content efforts across digital channels.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based ShoeDazzle , the online fashion and e-commerce site, is back in the hands of Brian Lee, according to a report from AllThingsD. Brian Lee is also head of the Honest Company, the eco-friendly products firm he runs with Jessica Alba; he's also well known for co-founding LegalZoom. No details on why Strauss has departed.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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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JUNE 14, 2012

Another collision between the long history of political deals in Los Angeles, and the city's growing high tech industry surfaced this week, after the Los Angeles City Council decided to halt a contract to provide free Wi-Fi in LAX to a Florida firm, in an uncompetitive process. Photo courtesy of BigStock.com. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 12, 2012

A new, Los Angeles-based startup creating luxury t-shirts, Teeology.com , appears to be gearing up for a launch today, with the backing of celebrity Jennifer Lopez, plus tech entrepreneurs Brian Lee and MJ Eng. Brian Lee is best known for Legalzoom and ShoeDazzle. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based Dubb , a new, angel-backed startup, has launched a new, mobile marketplace to help you find customers. The startup says it is backed by angels, including Kris Gutta, Rashesh Patel, Venkat Ketineni and Brian Liu, Chairman and Cofounder of LegalZoom. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 26, 2017

Los Angeles-based FairClaims has raised $1.8M The funding came on top of an earlier, $285,000 in seed funding the company received from Brian Liu (co-founder of legalzoom), Mark Goldstein, and Mark Goines (NOLO, Intuit Turbotax). in a funding round, to go towards the startup's online dispute resolution services.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

It appears the new, subscription based deals and offers program--SuperFinds--from Los Angeles-based FamilyFinds is starting to send out special offers to its customers, with a deal to receive $40 in merchandise for only $20 from the new Jessica Alba online e-commerce venture, Honest Co. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We thought it would be worth hearing about where the firm is today, as well as Carey's strategy to create something similar to LegalZoom, but for attorneys. I see us compared with a LegalZoom, which has done phenomenally well. Folks like LegalZoom have taken commoditized documents, for things which don't necessary need an attorney.

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JULY 19, 2011

Los Angeles had $222.5M Other large deals included $40M in funding from ShoeDazzle , the celebrity-and-ecommerce startup headed by Brian Lee, former CEO of Legalzoom; $50M for biotech startup Sangart in San Diego; and $25M for clean technology firm Transphorm , which is based in Goleta. raised for the quarter.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Adam Miller of Cornerstone OnDemand, and Brian Lee of Honest Company/LegalZoom, said that LA's technology community is particularly well suited to helping the Olympic effort along. Los Angeles is up against Paris, France as host city for the Olympics in 2024. Sykes, along with David Hill of Hilly Inc., READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based ChowNow, which develops software to manage online ordering and marketing for restaurants, has named a new CFO. ChowNow said that Mancl worked on the IPOs of Lyft, LegalZoom, AppLovin, Snap, TheRealReal, GoDaddy, Wix, Eventbrite, and Upwork.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based dog care startup Dogdrop has raised $2.9M According to the company, the new funding will help it expand its Los Angeles footprint, and also will help it as it looks at expanding to Austin, Denver, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, and Raleigh. in a funding round, to expand the company's locations and markets.

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We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. Angels have a much lower threshold for returns than do VCs.

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