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Curri rolls out nationwide delivery service for construction materials industry

TechCrunch LA

A little over a year after its graduation from Y Combinator’s demo day, the on-demand construction materials delivery service Curri is beginning to offer its services in all 50 states. “They act as a wholesaler doing all the sales, but they’re also acting as a logistics company as well,” said Lafferty.

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HelloTech: On Demand, In-Home Tech Support Via College Students Near You

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Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. First and foremost, it's an on-demand, in -home technical support service. in seed funding, which as a seed round goes, is pretty good.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. Have sales bonus plans based on more than just sales targets. These can’t be the main event – sales are sales after all – but can help shape good behavior. Sales Startup Lessons'

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Interview with Tony Adam, EventUp

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The firm just announced its seed funding round, from the founders of Groupon as other last week, and has launched into Chicago as its latest market. We spoke with Tony Adam , the firm's CEO, about the company's new funding round. Tell us a bit about this seed funding? is trying to figure out.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers.

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Amplify LA's Paul Bricault On Startup Accelerator Lessons, Five Years Later

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We have companies here from enterprise SaaS to Internet of Things, to the on-demand economy, to virtual and augmented reality, and health care. Those are historically areas that were not known to be associated with Los Angeles, but they were able to garner more attention and funding, and become a bigger part of Amplify than we thought.

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. What we learned, is there is so much more demand from existing retailers and platforms that sell directly to consumers, and discovery platforms like Foursquare, who wanted to user our IP as a layer, versus a standalone product. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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