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How Serviz Plans To Conquer The Home Services Industry

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In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year.

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LA Group Launches Effort To Promote Technology Corridor In Los Angeles

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What's the best way to encourage development of the technology industry in Los Angeles? The group said that it is hoping to promote the path of the current Expo line as a new technology corridor, to create new "innovation hubs" along the corridor.

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SERVIZ Gets Giant New Competitor: Amazon.com

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Sherman Oaks-based SERVIZ , the home services marketplace founded by former ReachLocal head Zorik Gordon, has a giant new competitor as of this morning: Amazon.com. The new Amazon service is a direct competitor to SERVIZ, which also offers up access, purchase, and scheduling of home service providers. READ MORE>>.

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SERVIZ, Backed by $10.7M From Groupon, Takes On Holiday Lighting Installs

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Sherman Oaks-based SERVIZ , a new, on-demand home services startup led by ReachLocal founder Zorik Gordon, said Wednesday that it is connecting consumers with holiday lighting installation services--and also revealed a funding round from Groupon. The startup said it raised $10.7M READ MORE>>.

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PurePhoto Buys PhotographyMentor.com, Launches Photo Site

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Westlake Village-based PurePhoto.com , a new startup headed by former NextMedium COO John Ellis, and whose exec team includes prior executives from ReachLocal, ValueClick, and YellowPages.com, said Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of Los Angeles-based PhotographyMentor , an online photography education and social networking site.

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Rubicon Project In Huge Executive Growth Push

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In what might easily be the most number of executives announced at once in Southern California, Los Angeles-based online advertising marketplace The Rubicon Project announced ten new executives across engineering, data, administrative and operational strategy, legal, financial and business development.

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Southern California Linked IPOs Grow

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which has substantial operations in Westlake Village, Beverly Hills-based RealD , Monrovia-based Green Dot , and Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links. Other recent IPOs with Southern California roots include Inphi Corp.