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Homebound Gets $35M More For Home Rebuilding

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Homebound , a startup which rebuilds homes after disasters--and which has offices in Malibu--has raised $35M in a Series B funding, the company disclosed this week, bringing its total raised to $53M. The company's founders are Nikki Pechet and Jack Abraham.

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Kickstarted Launches Site For Successfully Crowdsourced Projects

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The site was founded by Candice Georgiadis, a jewelry designer based in Malibu. The Los Angeles area startup is hoping to make it easier for crowdfunded projects to find additional customers for their projects, by streamlining request for samples, communication via email, Facbeook, Twitter, SMS, and more.

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eHarmony Gets A Makeover

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The Santa Monica-based company said that it has launched a next generation site, which it had codenamed "Malibu", to drive new growth and new members for the service. eharmony design dating matchmaking couples marriage online redesign' READ MORE>>.

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Tech and Entertainment Have a Home in Silicon Beach

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Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

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You literally feel like you’re perching over the most beautiful beaches in the world and you see all the way up the coastline from Ranchos Palos Verdes in the south to Malibu in the North. ” It was an Art Deco style building and we were able to design an office that kept the concrete and the wood. We wandered 6 blocks East.

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The Work of Film Through Technology: Interview with CG Supervisor Morris May

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Despite the fact that he can create things on Autodesk’s Maya that their own software designers may have never have dreamed up (or more accurately, that only a few people on this Earth can), being a ‘big wig’ was never May’s intention. Character design is thus begun by the modeling department, with permission from the art department.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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Earlier this year, Mr. Rappaport sold a beach cottage in Malibu to a Facebook executive for $6.8 CEO Terry Semels compound in Malibu for $37 million—Mr. Ellisons 27th Malibu property purchase, says Mr. Rappaport. We cover commercial and residential topics, including housing, mortgages, design and architecture.