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The Bouqs Company Names New Board Member

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Marina del Rey-based The Bouqs Company , the direct, farm-to-consumer, online floral delivery service founded by John Tabis, said this week that it has named Rosemary Turner to the company's board of directors. The company said Turner is a veteran logistics leader, having served as president of UPS for 22 years.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We''re pretty agnostic in terms of the kind of company, and historically we''ve been all over the place. Gerard Casale: The funnel, in terms of intake, is we''ll look at any deal.

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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We spoke with Michael Chasin, the company''s co-founder, about the startup. One day, I was talking with a friend who was trying to develop and app for a school event, and had created his own app creation company. He actually ended up dropping out of law school in his second year to pursue his app company. What''s LawKick about?

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Backing the Jockey and Not the Horse

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The question was posed by Nolan Simons, an LMU student from Professor David Choi’s Business Incubation class. I was invited along with Kluge’s CEO, Arturo Perez , to listen to five companies from the class pitch their ideas. “So are there any other tips you can give when pitching VC’s?”

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