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Link-in-bio monetization platform Snipfeed raises a $5.5M seed round

TechCrunch LA

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. If a creator or celebrity were to sell personalized videos on Cameo , they’d lose 25% to the platform.

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Launching from beta, ProGuides is making money ensuring that gamers never play alone

TechCrunch LA

When ProGuides pulled the covers off of its service earlier this year, the young Los Angeles-based startup intended to give gamers a way to train with professional and semi-pro esports players from around the world. The LA-based company also has some venture-backed competition on the East Coast.

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Delane Parnell’s plan to conquer amateur esports

TechCrunch LA

Los Angeles-based PlayVS (pronounced “play versus”) wants to become the dominant platform for amateur esports, starting at the high school level. What esports means is playing video games competitively bound to governance and a competitive ruleset.

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Reflections on 2018: Anna Barber, Techstars LA

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Anna Barber , the Managing Director of Techstars LA (www.techstars.com), one of the startup accelerators run by Techstars in the Los Angeles area. And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

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Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. It's very much matching pieces into a puzzle.

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Story of a Startup Weekend Veteran | The Good, The Bad, and the UGLY!

Tech Zulu Event

A month ago, I participated in my first ever Startup Weekend event in Los Angeles, California in the co-working spaces at Coloft. I faced the same challenge not being able to form a team because most people joined the competition with friends that they had already planned on working with.

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