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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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Open Source Business Model

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Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

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One of the latest is Los Angeles-based Helpr (www.helpr-app.com), which recently launched to help parents find babysitters for their children. Becka is also co-founder of Female Founders Los Angeles (FFLA). I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. What is Helpr?

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Value and Meetups - SEO / SEM

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Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. I'm hoping to figure out a way to spark a meet-up around SEO / SEM in Santa Monica / West Los Angeles / South Bay. It felt like a bad time share presentation. It's unfortunate that this event is going the way it is.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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Alex Benzer: My partner and I met here in Los Angeles, in high school. We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. We have some great mentors now. Thanks to TechStars, we've got an awesome mentor who's co-habitating with us now, and we're learning something daily from him.

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

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For today's youth, it's often hard to figure out what they want to do in life--according to Deborah Ramo , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Amavitae (www.amavitae.com). Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers.

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CurbStand: Looking To Create A Valet Parking Network

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Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.