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

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Boulevard , a spa management and payment platform, has raised $27 million in a new round of funding despite a business slowdown caused by the COVID0-19 pandemic. 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.

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Tubestart: Tapping The Power Of The Crowd To Support Online Video

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Josef Holm: Tubestart is a crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators, web series creators, and for digital video in general. Unlike the thirty five different categories on sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, we only have video projects and YouTubers who need to raise money. So, you just don''t get traction and that network effect.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

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Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. 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.

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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

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Interview with Steve Seigel, Hatched

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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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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

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We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. going to put it on their channel on Youtube, or maybe their website platform. The same category as Fullscreen and Maker, but, unlike those companies, we''re not rolling up other channels. more) READ MORE>>.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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