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Southern California Linked IPOs Grow

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In fact, a recent study released by Ernst & Young found that there were eight companies in Southern California, out of 22 total in California, who were lined up for an IPO in Q4. which has substantial operations in Westlake Village, Beverly Hills-based RealD , Monrovia-based Green Dot , and Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal.

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

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There's lots of noise in the on-demand tutoring space, especially connecting people virtually, however, in my experience, it's in the best interest of consumers to get in-person, local tutoring. In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes.