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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

TechCrunch LA

Founder Alix Peabody designed a line of female-focused canned rosé. From wellness chat and journaling apps to therapy substitutes to fitness companies, stick wellness in a pitch and investors will take a second look. Modsy scores $37M to virtually design your home. More Labs, for example, is backed with $8 million in VC funding.

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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

Xconomy

The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. The Journal also reported at the time that Ostendo had raised $90 million from venture capital firms and Pieter Thiel, the investor and PayPal co-founder. million, according to a recent regulatory filing.

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Hands-on Techniques To Avoid Hiring Wantrepreneurs

InfoChachkie

Did you just meet the shy boy who spent his High School years writing in his journal or the boisterous verbal bully who used her wit to hide her insecurities? When I say “get personal,” I am referring to non-typical questions designed to determine who the candidate really is. Sample Personal Questions. If so, did you enjoy relocating?

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TechZulu Live to Premiere "TZLaw" at 5:15 p.m. PT Thursday, October 7, with IP Attorney Denise Grayson of "The Social Network"

Tech Zulu Event

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. She has guest lectured on cyberlaw at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism. Follow her on Twitter at @lisaborodkin [ [link] ].

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

magazine and the LA Business Journal. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. SpaceX’s rockets and spacecraft were the first privately designed and built craft to put a satellite into Earth and dock with the International Space Station.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit ► October (1) New Video!

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Stay Positive

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! It could take only one moment of negativity to ruin months or years of positive equity. But be careful.

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