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LA-based Boulevard raises $27 million for its spa management software

TechCrunch LA

They spoke with salon owners in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and other trendy neighborhoods trying to get a sense of where software and services were falling short. There is more than $250 billion spent per year across roughly 3 million businesses in the salon and spa category, according to data provided by the company.

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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

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I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past two years and bending the ears of any entrepreneur who will humor me to hear what I think the solution needs to look like. I’d love to know people to “follow&# on websites to help expand my tastes the way that Twitter expands my news sources. No, seriously.

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

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To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. A number of years ago, myself and some of my colleagues in the entertainment industry developed a nonprofit workplace in Hollywood. How did this start?

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

“A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.

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Interview with Steve Seigel, Hatched

socalTECH

We take a really friendly, Shark Tank approach that promotes young entrepreneurs, and lets them pitch to a group of seasoned investors and venture capitalists on a panel, and where they not only get an actual investment, but also go through a retail challenge, to get consumer feedback. How did you get involved with angel investing, initially?

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

socalTECH

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? I call that providing habitsmonthly habitsto help individuals do better, make better decisions, and who need strategy and strategic implementation of this on regular basis.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. We will never be Silicon Valley in the way that Toronto will never be Hollywood. The whole category of “sponsored search&# came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my Come join us.

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