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LA-based A-Frame, a developer of celebrity-led personal care brands, raises cash for its brand incubator

TechCrunch LA

“We partner with the investment groups at the agencies,” said company founder and chief executive, Ari Bloom. “We start interviewing different talent, speaking with their agents and their managers. “It was important to us once we get to a category what is the demographic opportunity. . The Honest Co.

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Why Mucker Capital Is Putting More Money To Work In LA Startups

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For the last few years, startup accelerator MuckerLab has been helping very early stage companies define and grow their businesses, using the accelerator model and small investments to get companies to the next stage. What we''ve done now is ramp up the size of our seed investments, and started to do more of them.

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Interview with Mickie Rosen, Tecca

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We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. Ross Levinsohn of Fuse Capital also is involved in incubating Tecca. We set up a digital media fund, which had the goal of investing in new digital media properties, ideas, and concepts.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs.

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Interview with Jason Reid, Giftagram

socalTECH

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. How does Giftagram work?

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Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com

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To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. I had been doing some angel investing, and incubating several projects.

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Can We Engineer Serendipity to Find True Love? CupidRadar Says Yes

Tech Zulu Event

And for every need and aspect that people are searching for, there’s a niche and sub-category to match the need (religion, orientation, “special” interests, etc.) <– This too can get pretty hilarious. Today, we have a narrative interview with Mehrdad Sarlak, creator and founder of CupidRadar.

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