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As Quibi reportedly seeks another $1 billion, Fiction Riot fills the programming slate for its rival service

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The Los Angeles-based company has already launched a beta version of its streaming service, Ficto , and yesterday announced a host of new shows that will appear on the app later this year. Jemisin’s book is another feature in the Ficto slate. The series from Ficto will concentrate on the first book in Lu’s trilogy.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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Hovelstay.com: Connecting The Adventurous Traveler With Cheap, Unique Rooms

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Are you tired of booking that "luxury room" on your favorite vacation rental site, and finding it''s really a dump? What''s hovelstay.com, and how is it different than all the other vacation rental sites out there? Michael Womack: We are creating a site that has the adventurous and budget traveler in mind.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? Another unabashed proponent of fan fiction is N.K.

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Interview with Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com

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How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? At the time, I was looking for a book to teach web design to my students, but figured out that one had never been written.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

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That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. That was the genesis of the site. From that, we''re able to give each famous person a popularity ranking on our site. You often hear the advice: do one thing, and do it well.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

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Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. We are trying to keep it competitive.

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