Mon.Mar 26, 2012

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Jessica Alba's The Honest Company Scores $27M

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Online, eco-family products company The Honest Company , started by celebrity Jessica Alba and Los Angeles e-commerce master Brian Lee, said late Friday that it has raised $27M in funding. The funding was led by General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). The retailer is offering up subscription e-commerce products focused on parents, including diapers, wipes, baby bath, skin care, and home cleaning products.

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Protecting Your Brand from Knock-Offs and Piracy

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Thursday, March 29, 2012 -- IP Strategies: Protecting Your Brand from Knock-Offs and Piracy -(and we don't mean Jack Sparrow). Gold Coast Business Forum. Come hear our panel of senior executives (Deckers, Big Dogs/Walking Company, DTS) discuss building effective anti-piracy programs.

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Interview with Aigerim Duiseneyeva and Shana Zheng, TripTrotting

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Have you ever traveled to a foreign country, and wish you had a local friend who could show you around? Tired of packaged tours where you really don't get to experience the local culture? That's what TripTrotting (www.triptrotting.com) is hoping to fix. The Los Angeles startup is looking to help connect travelers with local guides and hosts. Aigerim Duiseneyeva and Shana Zheng are the co-founders of the firm, and told us more about the service.

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Writers Boot Camp Business Breakfast

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012 -- Writers Boot Camp Business Breakfast. Milana Vayntrub, Actor-Director-Writer and Co-Creator: Live Prude Girls YouTube Channel and "Let's Talk About Something More Interesting". Join us as we welcome Writers Boot Camp alumnus and YouTube sensation Milana Vayntrub to our Business Breakfast stage. An interview with Ms. Vayntrub (pictured right), director and co-star of the popular L.T.A.S.M.I. web series, will no doubt be an adventure for moderator and audience alike.

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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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Mobile Roadie Powers New Madonna iPad App

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Another high profile, celebrity app has rolled out from Los Angeles mobile app developer Mobile Roadie today--this time, from Madonna. In conjunction with the launch of her new album MDNA, Madonna debuted her new iPad app in the iTunes App Store, which Mobile Roadie said was developed using its self-service mobile app platform. The free app features photos, videos, music, fan posts, and news from Madonna fans.

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Next Generation Hardware | Miselu Presents Musical Democracy at SXSW

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“The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities,” writes Swedish documentary filmmakers, David Dworsky and Victor Köhler, when describing their 2011 SXSW debut film Press, Pause, Play ; documenting the technological shift recently allowing a creative democracy in music.

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How to Integrate a Company You Acquire: 6 Steps

Frank Addante

Merging a business into your own is like rebuilding a plane while in flight. Here’s how to keep flying. Acquiring other companies can be a great strategy to grow your company. It can help expand your product, team, market share, revenue, or geographic presence. Having overseen a number of acquisitions in my career, I’ve learned that it’s just as much art as it is science, and the devil is in the details.

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LifeCrowd Expands, Launches Out Of MuckerLab

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Santa Monica-based LifeCrowd , the social activity discovery site headed by Bong Koh, said Friday that it has expanded into three new regions, and launched officially out of Los Angeles accelerator MucherLab. The startup said it has launched into San Francisco, Orange County, and San Diego, in addition to Los Angeles, and is also now part of the MuckerLab accelerator.

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Too Many Leaders Still Rely on Their ‘Golden Gut’

Startup Professionals Musings

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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Fandango Breaks Record With The Hunger Games Ticket Sales

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Los Angeles-based Fandango said today that this weekend's release of The Hunger Games, the movie based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins, broke its sales records, with 22 percent of domestic opening weekend ticket sales being made through its system. The company said that the sales represent the largest share of sales for any movie in its 12-year history.

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Morphlabs Takes On Solid State Storage

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Manhattan Beach-based MorphLabs is rolling out a new piece of cloud software today, focused on solid state drive (SSD) storage. The software startup--the latest run by WInston Damarillo--said its new mCLoud Data center Unit (DCU) software is an end-to-end, SSD cloud platform for data centers, service providers, and enterprise customers. The new solid state storage product is based on technology from computer maker Dell, and its Dell PowerEdge C portfolio.

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enXco Buys Texas Wind Project

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San Diego-based enXco , a developer of renewable energy projects which is backed by EDF Energies Nouvelles, said this morning that it has acquired a wind power project from Element Power US. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. enxCo and Element said that enXco purchase the Bobcat Bluff Wind Project, located in Archer County, Texas, which includes 14,000 acres, and is expected to deploy up to 150 megawatts of capacity.

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MacMall Launches Retail Store In Chicago

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El Segundo-based MacMall , the online and catalog retailer of Apple computers and software, is expanding its retail stores, saying that it has opened up a new retail store in Chicago. The catalog retailer--which is a subsidiary of PC Mall, Inc.--said the store is its first in the Chicago area. The firm also runs three stores in Southern California. PC Mall did not say if the new store is a start of a national expansion of its retail efforts, or if it has further retail plans.

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Verenium Gains $37M From Asset Sale

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San Diego-based Verenium Corporation , a firm developing industrial biotechnology, said today that it as sold off its oilseed processing business to DSM Food Specialties B.V. , a unit of Royal DSM, for $37M. The deal also included licensing of certain enzymes for use in the food and beverage market, and access to gene libraries being developed by Verenium.

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Row 44 Installs 250th Plane

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Westlake Village-based Row44 , the developer of in-flight, broadband entertainment and Wi-Fi access devices, reported today that it has installed its 250th plane for its commercial airline partners. Row44 develops a Wi-Fi access system which uses satellite access to provide connectivity to users. Row 44 said its systems have been installed for commercial airlines in North America, Europe, and Africa.

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Fisker Automotive Upgrades Warranty Due To A123 Battery Issue

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Responding to the news that high voltage battery supplier A123 Systems has found a manufacturing issue with its battery cells, Anaheim-based Fisker Automotive said today that it has enhanced its warranty and will provide complete battery replacement to owners of its 2012 Fisker Karma. The firm--which has been seeing some major stumbling blocks as it looks to spin up deliver of its electric cars--said it has launched the "significant upgrade" to its VIP Customer Care Coverage as a result of the A

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