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JANUARY 25, 2012

The love affair between Los Angeles startups combining e-commerce and celebrity continues unbated today, as a new, Santa Monica-based startup headed by actress Jessica Alba --and backed by Brian Lee , the founder of LegalZoom and ShoeDazzle--unveiled itself to the world.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The company said that Denny previously led business development for an EV company in Beijing and was the US marketing lead at Xiaomi, and Greer was previously in marketing and product development at LegalZoom.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Acording to NZXT, the investment will bring on more senior talent, expand its product offering to include new hardware categories, expand its direct-to-consumer offering in new global markets, among other efforts. The funding came from private equity investor Franciso Partners.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Santa Ana-based RealPractice , which develops legal technology products and related services, said today that it has launched a new, software-as-a-service platform aimed at solo attorneys. The new product is a part of the firm's revamp and new focus on small solo attorneys.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2012

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. According to The Honest Company, the funding will go towards accelerating growth and developing its products and brand. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The Honest Company offers up a variety of eco-friendly baby- and kids- products via subscription. Lee is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in such companies as LegalZoom and ShoeDazzle. sale products baby ecommerce subscription actress celebrity alba jessica company honest' READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2013

The Honest Company is the celebrity driven, subscription startup which offers up nontoxic, eco-friendly baby and kids products, including everything from diapers to home cleaning. The company offers up those products through a monthly subscription.

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JULY 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based Teeology , the latest startup backed by tech entrepreneur Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), has started signing up users today, telling people via email and Twitter that they can now sign up for the service. Lee also recently has been working with Jessica Alba on eco-friendly, family products startup The Honest Company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

The Honest Company , the online brand offering up natural products for babies and families founded by Jessica Alba, has teamed up with daily deals site Zulily , the two said Wednesday afternoon. Lee also headed up LegalZoom, and also runs ShoeDazzle.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Brian Lee is also head of the Honest Company, the eco-friendly products firm he runs with Jessica Alba; he's also well known for co-founding LegalZoom. Lee is Chairman of ShoeDazzle, which he founded with celebrity Kim Kardashian. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2013

Los Angeles has always been a major market for launching products, and in the era of e-commerce has become highly attractive for its large consumer population, a technology-savvy population, and affinity for new products and services. What is H.Bloom? Bryan Burkhart: H. We''re excited to service them here. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Lee , who has been behind such companies as LegalZoom, H. Cotopaxi makes jackets, water bottles, backpacks, and other products which donate part of their proceeds to specific social causes. Los Angeles-based angel investor Brian S. Cotopaxi said today that it has raised $6.5M Cotopaxi said today that it has raised $6.5M READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 1, 2019

Shoedazzle and LegalZoom; and Patel, whose deep background in enterprise software comes from years spent as a co-founder and executive of Isilon Systems and later at EMC, are “longtime friends of the firm” according to an interview with both Sequeira and Vassallo. . million round.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

For today's interview, we thought it would be worth visiting with Carey Ransom , CEO of Irvine-based RealPractice (www.realpractice.com), a firm which develops legal-based software products. I see us compared with a LegalZoom, which has done phenomenally well. They've often made products which were overly complex and over-engineered.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

There are four founders Erik Rannala, formerly of Harrison Metal, and William Hsu, who most recently served as Chief Product Officer at AT&T Interactive, HauteLook’s Greg Bettinelli and Happiness Engines founder Yan-David Erlich. At the end of the program, companies present their businesses to potential investors at a Demo Day event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Based on the Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom a while back, personal money, or bootstrapping, continues to be the primary startup funding source. Fundraising and investor governance are never-ending tasks, which will take real focus away from building the right product and finding real customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

Based on the latest Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom, personal money, or bootstrapping, continued to be the primary startup funding in 2012. Entrepreneurs who plan to complete a business plan the first month, find an investor the second, and roll out a product the third month are just kidding themselves.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

As soon as the next 3-4 weeks you'll see some big news from Jaanuu, and we will continue to go into the summer and towards the end of the year, with not only product extensions, but interesting distribution extensions. Shaan Sethi: With the pool of capital, and the team we have of 25 to 30 employees, we have a lot in the hopper.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

Every single one of our clients who has used us, whether they''ve hired a lawyer or not, loves the product, and they are referring it to family and friends. That''s why people turn to Legalzoom and Docstoc, and use those free documents because they just don''t want to deal with lawyers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We launched Docstore about four or five months ago with a number of premium partners, including LegalZoom, CareerPress, LegalAcreements.com, and others, and now we are opening up the marketplace so that virtually anyone can sell high quality, professional content. There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. Though the company moved well beyond those days, it's essentially the software I had designed, the same product. What kind of customers are using the tool? Jeff Zwelling: Today, we have lots of e-commerce and online subscription customers. I grew up here.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

For Legalzoom, it's a very different model. It's helped us to invest a little in talent and quality, and we've been able to use our programming, knowledge, data, and insights to make a better product, which has been really working well for us. So, we're partnered with them on a couple of different levels.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Brian Lee – LegalZoom, ShoeDazzle. His first company, LegalZoom was founded with Robert Shapiro, part of the team that successfully exonerated OJ Simpson, instantly giving his company credibility unheard of in the start up community. His second venture was Tesla Motors, creating the first production electric car of the modern era.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I’m reminded of LegalZoom who was founded in LA but moved it’s headquarters to Glendale and much of its operations to Austin, Texas. But talent with no capital is another word for migration. And then there is public policy. Historically the City of LA has been hostile to startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

While nobody has yet “cracked the code&# on production quality video over the Internet (YouTube won UGC video), there is a lot of innovation happening in LA from places like Eqal, Deca.TV, ThisWeekIn, Machinima & Maker Studios. The Internet is now faster, more dynamic and less about text. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.

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