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

TechCrunch LA

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

in Los Angeles. Founded by a former Pixar and DreamWorks animator, Rex Grignon, Nimble launched in 2014 and has raised just under $10 million from investors including the UCLA VC Fund and New Enterprise Associates, according to Crunchbase. “That worldwide reach is very important,” Grignon said.

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Cubic Transportation Systems Buys NextBus

socalTECH

NextBus supplies its systems to Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Boston, in additoin to other customers like UCLA and MIT. Cubic is a diversified provider of defense, transportation, and RFID products with more than 7,800 employees. The firm's headquarters are in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, October 27, at UCLA. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. Event Details. to 10:30 p.m.

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Interview with Michael Greenberg, Retina

socalTECH

In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club.

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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

socalTECH

The NSF determined eight to ten years ago that the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants they were funding to academic teams, to commercialize technology, they were losing, because not many academics had the background to understand how to go out and source customers, and did not know how to run a startup.

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Four reasons why you should attend TC Sessions AR/VR 2018

TechCrunch LA

On October 18 — just one week away — some of the most brilliant and innovative minds in reality creation will gather at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles to attend TC Sessions AR/VR 2018. Will Facebook’s customers buy in? TC Sessions AR/VR 2018 takes place on October 18 at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles.