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ShopNation Raises $800K, Launches Fashion Discovery Site

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The company--one of the companies in the LaunchpadLA effort--is the second startup for Schneider and Kervin, who founded StarBrand Media, a celebrity shopping startup acquired by Sugar Inc. The firm said its team comes from LowerMyBills.com, Mahalo, and HUGE. READ MORE>>.

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3 Valuation Inflection Points for Startups: Don’t Copy Calacanis

From the Venture Trenches

In a recent update on LinkedIn Jason Calacanis recommended raising money on the promise of an idea, before a company launches its product. There are three basic valuation inflection points for any early stage company and each one typically increases the price investors are willing to pay in order to back the business.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA.