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Heal: Survey Shows Higher Patient Satisfaction, Better Results From House Calls

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Los Angeles-based Heal , which operates a mobile app driven, in-person, "house call" service which lets users schedule in person doctor's visits at their home or work, says it is seeing higher satisfaction, cost savings, and "significant" time savings from its patients.

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Humana partners with Heal and invests $100 million in the company’s doctor-on-demand service

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” That’s the way Nick Desai, the co-founder and chief executive of the Los Angeles-based startup Heal describes the future of traditional healthcare delivery. We continue to see high levels of customer satisfaction and improved health outcomes when care is delivered in the home.

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Wrench’s on-demand vehicle repair and maintenance service picks up $20 million

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Wrench , the Seattle-based on demand vehicle maintenance and repair service for consumers and fleets, has raised $20 million in its latest round of financing. RepairSmith , which operates a similar service out of Los Angeles and San Francisco, is backed by Daimler to provide much the same on-demand repair services.

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Beachmint, PandoDaily Battle Over Story

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It looks like the battle between Los Angeles e-commerce startup Beachmint and technology blog PandoDaily is flaring up into a major firestorm, over the accuracy of a story posted a couple of weeks ago by the tech blog.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

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million round led by Los Angeles firm Upfront Ventures, with participation from Mucker Capital and Matchstick Ventures. The company is actually based out of LA, too, but has completed its initial launch in Minnesota, where there’s greater demand for short-term bus travel. The business has closed a $3.85

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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

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He gave his talk (with plenty of jokes and punchlines to keep it light-hearted) with a level of certainty of someone who’s given similar advice to many others, on some cases been ignored, and probably had the satisfaction of having a few ‘I told you so’s. Another aspect of the evening that we really enjoyed.

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What I Learned In 2015: Lief Morin, KeyInfo

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We lit our own KeyInfo fiber ring, which provides advanced connectivity services to Ventura and Los Angeles counties. You may have obstacles you were unprepared for, but these opportunities to learn and grow help you gain the experience and resiliency needed to run a successful company in a demanding industry.