Tue.Mar 06, 2018

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WHOOP raises $25 million to tell everyone from athletes to execs about their health

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WHOOP, the company behind the Tesla of health tracking and sports performance wearables, has raised a whopping $25 million in a new round of funding. The round was comprised of a slew of prominent investment firms and individual investors including the Durant Company, the National Football League Players Association, former NBA commissioner David Stern, Twitter […].

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Startup Boost Targets Los Angeles With Pre-Accelerator Program

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Do you have a startup idea, and a team, but no seed funding, and are even too early for an early stage startup accelerator? A new program in Los Angeles, Startup Boost / Los Angeles , says it is launching a "pre-accelerator" program which aims to help bridge the gap between a team with an "evolved" idea and seed investors and accelerator programs. The program--which is taking applications here in Los Angeles until March 22nd--said it is looking for eight startups to include in a six week mentors

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Who’s In Your Club For Your Mutual Improvement?

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A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. One of my former students, Sieva Kozinsky, Co-Founder & CEO of StudySoup recently shared his startup insights with my UC Santa Barbara students. He offered my students a litany of compelling suggestions. However, the one that stood out to me was the importance of curating their peer groups in advance of graduating and starting an entrepreneurial career.

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FreedomPop To Power New Service For Prudential

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Los Angeles-based mobile communications provider FreedomPop said on Tuesday morning that it has partnered with financial services giant Prudential , to help power a new service that Prudential will up-sell to its existing customers. Details on the partnership were not announced, and the companies did not detail exactly what those financial products will look like.

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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Silicon Beach Report March 6: SpaceX Successfully Launches Hispasat 30W-6

L.A. Business Journal

SpaceX successfully launches Hispasat 30W-6; FreedomPop to partner with Prudential; and Triton Digital renews relationship with Beasley Media Group.

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Google Adds Disneyland And California Adventure To Street View

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Do you wish you could wander around your favorite places in Disneyland and California Adventure all day? Well, now can you--at least, virtually--through Google's Street View. According to Google, it has added Street View imagery for 11 of Disney's parks--including Disneyland, California Adventure, Disney's Magical Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park, and others--to its Street View imagery.

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Masimo Rolls Out Remote Patient Monitoring App

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Irvine-based Masimo , the developer of patient monitoring devices, is making it easier for healthcare providers to monitor the condition of their patients, with a new application for smartphones and tablets. According to Masimo, it said it has released an app called Replica, which lets clinicians continuously monitor data for multiple patients under their care, in real time, from anywhere.

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ReTech Labs Names COO

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San Diego-based Retech Labs , a developer of software aimed at bricks-and-mortar retailers for private brand management and other efforts, said it has named Bharat Rupani as its new Chief Operating Officer. Rupani most recently was President of Daymon Interactions. The company said Rapani has over 20 years of retail experience in the areas of private brands, experiential marketing and retail execution.

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SpaceX Successfully Delivers Hispasat To Orbit

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully delivered its largest, geosynchronous satellite payload, the Hispasat 30W-6, to orbit last night, in a late evening launch from Cape Canaveral. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 with the Hispasat 30W-6 at 12:33 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40). The Hispasat satellite will provide television, broadband, communications, and other services for corporate customers, covering Europe, North Africa, and the Americas.

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Triton Digital Expands Win With Broadcaster

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Los Angeles-based Triton Digital , which provides digital audio streaming and advertising services to radio and other broadcasters, said it has renewed and expanded a relationship it has with Beasley Media Group, an owner of 63 radio stations. Financial details of the win were not announced. According to Triton Digital, Beasley Media Group will continue to use Triton's audio streaming network for its 63 stations, along with Triton's Webcast metrics services, Tap Ad Server, and its podcast creati

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