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Wittlebee Launches, Headed by Sean Pervical, Backed by Science

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Sean Percival, best known for founding Los Angeles tech blog lalawag, in addition to his work as an executive at MySpace, has booted up a new effort--Santa Monica-based Wittlebee , a new, online subscription service for baby supplies. to launch in the last few weeks, and the second, e-commerce via subscription firm from Science.

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Securing the Door: Amazon Buys Connected Doorbell Maker Ring

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That would make Amazon’s purchase of Ring the third largest in the Seattle e-commerce giant’s history. Santa Monica, CA-based Ring makes smart doorbells connected to cameras that alert homeowners when someone is at their door. The two biggest acquisitions were Whole Foods last year and Zappos in 2009, according to Statista.)

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. It was always more likely that auto industry commerce prowess would come from LA or Detroit.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. -Real-time search engine. Competitors: OneRiot , Topsy , Crowdeye , Twitter Summize.

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SMCLA: Google Analytics Recap and Video

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The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the Mahalo office in Santa Monica. This is especially useful if you use links in social media (blogs, tweets, Facebook links or YouTube links) to grab some traffic. Below is a highlight video of the evening. Here’s what we learned: 1.

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