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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). You dont have the same levels of fast turnover as a starting point, right?

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This Immigrant Entrepreneur Launched Her Billion Dollar Empire, Despite Speaking No English

InfoChachkie

In 1917, Mary Phelps Jacobs was granted patent 1,115,674 , which states, “This invention relates to improvements in brassieres.” (sic). As the Flapper fashion trend fell out of favor, the company courted Hollywood actresses, including Elizabeth Taylor, to wear their bras in films, thus introducing brassieres to a national market.