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AUGUST 6, 2012

Entrepreneur's list included the Southern California startups across a number of areas -- tech, apps, travel, geek chic, invention, retail, social media, and music/art. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

BeautyMint , the celebrity skincare service started by Jessica Simpson and BeachMint , the e-commerce meets celebrity startup headed by Josh Berman and Diego Berdakin, has gone live, and started taking signups this morning.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Los Angeles has been in the midst of a technology boom over the last few years, with many of high profile startups growing in the area. We spoke with Bryce Maddock , founder of TaskUs, about the company and how it has been providing the manpower behind a lot of LA''s technology startups. So, what is TaskUs?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Is your cell phone the secret to fixing e-commerce''s problem with abandoned shopping carts? Sekur.me , a new Santa Ana-based startup, has come up with a new app and service to use your cell phone for payment, bypassing the complexity of shopping carts. So this is for e-commerce sites, not in person purchases?

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JULY 19, 2012

Los Angeles investor Baroda Ventures , the venture capital arm of David Bohnett, has re-upped on online fashion and e-commerce site Fab.com , in a big, $105M third round of funding for that site. Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010. Bohnett is the founder of Geocities.com.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Santa Monica-based BeachMint , the social commerce firm headed by Josh Berman, has launched yet another celebrity e-commerce site--this time, HomeMint.com , a home fashions site launched in conjunction with Justin Timberlake and interior designer Estee Stanley.

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MAY 11, 2011

PC Mall said that Onsale is launching hyper-local offers, starting in the second quarter in a number of markets, and expanding throughout the country after that. The new site goes head to head with Groupon, LivingSocial, and a slew of other imitators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year.

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MAY 17, 2012

Rakuten , the Japanese e-commmerce giant which owns Aliso Viejo-based e-commerce site Buy.com , has just grabbed a stake in up-and-coming Internet sharing site Pinterest , according to reports today. The Wall Street Journal reports the round values the startup at $1.5

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Mov, launched just a few weeks ago, is more than a rebranded eBay or NBA auction site. Alston grew up surrounded by philanthropy and sports. The product started as a video e-commerce platform, basically creating a video version of eBay. In 2018, NBA players were allowed to start wearing any sneaker color of their choice.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The Honest Company , the online brand offering up natural products for babies and families founded by Jessica Alba, has teamed up with daily deals site Zulily , the two said Wednesday afternoon. Lee also headed up LegalZoom, and also runs ShoeDazzle. Financia link between the companies were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Online e-commerce giant Amazon.com just announced a new service this morning, which looks to be one of the biggest moves the company has made in digital music recently: it is now automatically providing MP3 format tracks for CDs sold on its site, including every single CD a user has purchased since 1998.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Los Angeles-based BeachMint , the online e-commerce and celebrity startup, has quietly let go of some staff this Friday, in what an insider called a "slight trim" of the firm's employee base. News of the layoffs first hit began circulating right before noon. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

Craigslist and other listing sites leaves millions of buyers to find all kinds of goods and services. Like a virtual yard sale and a bulletin board combined, listing sites can connect everyone within a vicinity for a specific deal. It’s really aiming to go after the community-based e-commerce platform. Why only through the app?

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JUNE 12, 2012

A new startup, Uncovet , headed by Heather Lipner and backed by Mike Jones' Science studio/incubator, has launched today, saying that it will provide curate, ec-ommerce focused around fashion and the home. Uncovet says its site helps map a shopper's "style graph", and provide discounts and tailored shopping recommendations to users.

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JUNE 8, 2011

In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

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MAY 19, 2011

StyleMint , the online celebrity-focused, social commerce site being prepped by Los Angeles-based BeachMint , the startup headed by ex-MySpace co-founder Josh Berman, looks to be priming for launch. The rewards range from $10 in StyleMint credit to a free T-Shirt, depending on how many people a user invites to join the site.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Exatly a year ago was the very beginning of KarmaGoat, where I was trying to come up with something that would work as a marketplace donating items. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

The company's product is focused on what the company says is roughly 25% of e-commerce orders are returned which cannot be resold full--price. Arrive says it refurbishes, cleans, and grades those returns to be re-sold directly on branded, re-sale e-commerce sites. Arrive is led by CEO and Co-Founder Rachelle Snyder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kauffman Foundation , the numbers are here to show it. Who would not want to join the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

BeautyMint , the online commerce-and-celebrity site that was announced by BeachMint and celebrity Jessica Simpson, is getting set to launch Monday, according to emails to potential users of the site. BeachMint announced the site September 8th. The company is venture backed by Scale Venture Partners and Lightbank.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. John Tomich: OneStop Internet is an e-commerce services company.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Shopify , which develops software for merchants to set up e-commerce, mobile, social media sites, online marketplaces, bricks-and-mortar stores, and more, is setting up a space for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, the company said this morning.

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MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. We caught up with EcoMom CEO Jody Sherman , to learn more about the company. Jody Sherman: We are a site for eco-conscious, health minded parents. How long has the site been around?

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APRIL 11, 2020

Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. No startup can implement a broad strategy quickly enough to stay ahead. The probability of failure goes up exponentially as the number of product features increase. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. He teamed up with Jordanna Joaquina, a genetic counselor, to create an online version of what she was already doing in the physical world. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform.

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JUNE 5, 2012

Allison Beal and Brian Garrett are trying to figure that out with their new, Los Angeles startup, StyleSaint (www.stylesaint.com). We then take that information and find trends and metadata, and all that content and sharing, and use it to drive e-commerce, and to design and manufacture apparel products.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based eTailPet , a new startup which helps pet store owners create online e-commerce sites, has received a round of seed funding, the company said this week. The startup is led by Founder and CEO Bere Giannini. According to eTailPet, the funding will go to accelerate its business.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

A newly launched, Chrome extension, Honey --developed by a Pasadena-based startup--is making it a lot easier for you to find those online coupon deals and discount codes. According to the firm, it just hit 60,000 installs for the plugin.

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JULY 12, 2011

2. Chris then discussed his time as founder and CEO of SiteAdvisor, his first venture-backed startup. We then went back to talking about how to choose the space in which your startup is operating. When starting SiteAdvisor, Chris believed there was inherent value in the security space despite it not being “hot” or “sexy.”

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Investors are pouring millions into the creation of a network of shared kitchens, storage facilities, and pickup counters that established chains and new food entrepreneurs can access to cut down on overhead and quickly spin up new concepts in fast food and casual dining. Food startup Maple shuts down operations in New York to join Deliveroo.

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JULY 16, 2012

Brand that have Facebook fan pages are seeing less than two percent visibility on any of the posts they put out, and it's widely known that Facebook commerce is not doing so hot, and Facebook ads are not doing so well either. Does this look like a Facebook page, or is this a separate site? The numbers tell the story. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

the startup incubator headed by Michael Jones, has debuted another fashion-related startup out of its incubation efforts this morning. The firm is building a celebrity influencer based fashion and e-commerce site, geared around flash-sales of products. operates an in-house startup incubator. Science, Inc. ,

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MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis: PurePhoto is a social commerce network, for buying, sharing, and selling original photographic art. It started as a partnership between myself and my co-founder, Ryan Phillips, who is a professional photographer. Why did you decide to start your own company? There are obviously also site for sharing photos, as well.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

StackSocial , the venture-backed startup focused on a service that ties e-commerce with online publishers, said over the weekend that it has "completely overhauled" its site, focused on mobile-ready access and connections to social sites like Facebook. StackSocial said "StackSocial 2.0" READ MORE>>.

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