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MARCH 14, 2016

United Airlines on Friday that it has become the first U.S. airline to begin use of commercial-scale volumes of sustainable aviation biofuel for regularly scheduled flights, through at effort at Los Angeles International Airport. United said the first flight, United Flight 708, between LAX and San Francisco, was entirely fueled by sustainable biofuel, and that it will be operating flights between LAX and SFO for the next two weeks entirely using that biofuel as part of the effort.

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MARCH 14, 2016

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. For best results, my advice is to think like an entrepreneur, even if you are a corporate employee. According to many studies, entrepreneurs tend to be happier , and 80 percent of self-made millionaires are entrepreneurs.

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MARCH 14, 2016

A project created to rank startup accelerators , has put three, Southern California startup accelerators among the top programs in the U.S. for startup accelerators, according to results released at SXSW over the weekend. The Seed Accelerator Rankings Project , created by Rice University professor Yael Hochberg, and University of North Carolina lecturer Susan Cohen, placed Amplify , MuckerLab , and TechStars --which has operated a number of startup accelerators in LA, including the Disney Accele

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MARCH 14, 2016

Los Angeles-based fintech venture investor Core Innovation Capital has scored a quick exit at one of its portfolio companies, Honest Dollar , just a year after its seed funding. Goldman Sachs said this morning that it has acquired Honest Dollar, which will become part of its Investment Management division. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Culver City-based NantKwest , a developer of biopharmaceuticals for treating cancer, infection, and inflammatory disease, has named a new VP. NantKwest said today that it has appointed Fatih M. Uckun, M.D., as its Vice President of Research and Clinical Development. Uckun was previously President of Ares Pharmaceuticals, and was professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and head of Translational Research in Leukemia and Lymp

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MARCH 14, 2016

Los Angeles-based Honest Co. , the natural baby products retailer founded by Jessica Alba, is facing a major crisis after an investigative report published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, which claimed the Honest Co.'s laundry detergent uses sodium laurel sulfate (SLS)--an ingredient that the company had pledged not to use. In a response, The Honest Co.

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