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Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings

TechCrunch LA

It’s also a massive market — and by Danna’s estimates, still with a lot of untapped business — with Boulevard quoting figures that forecast personal care and beauty sales passing $1.4 But for now, it’s a startup its investors believe is on solid footing in its home market. “As Focusing on the U.S.

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Enrou: Combining Causes and Commerce To Help Improve The World

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I saw that they were employing local people, providing them with a capacity to earn, but also that they needed a way to get to market. They were doing great work, but they had no e-commerce or marketing team to get them out there. We went to junior high school and UCLA together. How do you work with those organizations?

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Interview with Woolas Hsieh and Dina Lozofsky, Solarmer Energy

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Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. Where is the technology now, and is it on the market yet?

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. So Nolan is behind the design of the games? This is my third company. How is the firm funded?

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S.

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Interview with Richard Koffler and John Morris, The Tech CEO Network

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Myself, I am now working with a medical ultrasound technology firm, working directly with the researcher and a design firm. John Morris: I think it's trying to make a decent connection with customers, and trying to assess the size and viability of the market. Where is this talent coming from?