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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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Company Companies Legalzoom Startup 196

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online small business documents sharing and download site headed by Jason Nazar, said Tuesday that it has now hit more than 80,000 paying subscribers to the service, and over 20 million members. READ MORE>>.

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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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MAY 17, 2011

Last week's $40M funding by Andreessen Horowitz of Los Angeles-based ShoeDazzle , the monthly fashion, shoe and pursue startup headed by LegalZoom founder Brian Lee, was driven by parallels to a 1920's startup--the Book of the Month Club. O'Farrell said that ShoeDazzle already has 3 million members of the site, which, for $39.95

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MARCH 22, 2013

Santa Monica-based e-commerce site The Honest Company has launched an iOS application, which run on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Lee is a serial entrepreneur, having also founded such companies as LegalZoom and ShoeDazzle. The company offers up those products through a monthly subscription.

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JUNE 7, 2012

Gumhouse lists its Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Mike Jones (Science Inc.), sites, by Tweeting deals to WittleBee, Uncovet, Dollar Shave Club, and a number of other Science Inc. Peter Pham (also of Science Inc.), Tom Dare (MySpace), Greg Gilman (RxVantage), and Jason Trevisan (also of Polaris) as board members. properties.

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Dollar Shave Club Legalzoom Santa Monica Report 164

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JUNE 25, 2013

Consumers on the site have complained that Los Angeles should "stop obstructing positive progress", that just because a business model is changing "it doesn''t make it OK to use the legal system to shut them down" and that cab drivers in LA "are rude and almost always reluctant to accept credit cards".

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MAY 18, 2012

As Mountain View-based social networking site Facebook hits the market today, in what is the largest tech initial public offering in history, one question is if it will spur what has, so far, been a lackluster IPO market for Southern California technology firms. Despite the huge interest in Facebook's IPO--the firm priced at $38.00

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Angels Brian Lee (Honest Company, LegalZoom), Michael Dubin (Dollar Shave Club), Tamim Mourad (PriceGrabber.com) and Andy Dunn (Bonobos) also participated in the funding. Santa Monica-based Retention Science , the marketing software technology maker led by Jerry Jao, has snagged $7M in a Series A funding, according to the company.

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Dollar Shave Club Legalzoom Santa Monica Advertising 159

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MARCH 13, 2013

According to the firm, the company's technology is now analyzing over 100 million data elements and 300,000 sources per month to help its clients organize the best and most useful content from around the web.

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Content Tool Legalzoom News 171

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based ShoeDazzle , the online fashion and e-commerce site, is back in the hands of Brian Lee, according to a report from AllThingsD. 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. No details on why Strauss has departed.

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Legalzoom Report Commerce Los Angeles 140

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

and tech veteran Brian Lee (LegalZoom, Honest Co., The funding came from Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others. Hollar's executives were previously at Honest Co., including David Yeom (CEO, formerly in Business Development at Honest Co.) ShoeDazzle), who serves as Executive Chairman of the company. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The firm was originally known as CarsDirect, the automotive buying site of Idealab, and was headed by Scott Painter--who is now head of both Zag Automotive and TrueCar. The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

General Admission Tickets ($50) include access to all the week’s events including a Job Fair at the Verdugo Jobs Center, Site Tour of the newly completed CBRE offices at the Masonic Temple, Lunch at LegalZoom, Panel Discussion with Disney, Reception at the Museum of Neon Art, plus so much more (space is limited per event, RSVPs are required).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

General Admission Tickets ($50) include access to all the week’s events including a Job Fair at the Verdugo Jobs Center, Site Tour of the newly completed CBRE offices at the Masonic Temple, Lunch at LegalZoom, Panel Discussion with Disney, Reception at the Museum of Neon Art, plus so much more (space is limited per event, RSVPs are required).

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Glendale Legalzoom Sites Networking 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

General Admission Tickets ($50) include access to all the week’s events including a Job Fair at the Verdugo Jobs Center, Site Tour of the newly completed CBRE offices at the Masonic Temple, Lunch at LegalZoom, Panel Discussion with Disney, Reception at the Museum of Neon Art, plus so much more (space is limited per event, RSVPs are required).

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Glendale Legalzoom Sites Networking 100

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

General Admission Tickets ($50) include access to all the week’s events including a Job Fair at the Verdugo Jobs Center, Site Tour of the newly completed CBRE offices at the Masonic Temple, Lunch at LegalZoom, Panel Discussion with Disney, Reception at the Museum of Neon Art, plus so much more (space is limited per event, RSVPs are required).

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Glendale Legalzoom Sites Networking 100

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AUGUST 6, 2012

We now have over 100 million users visiting our owned and operated sites, and we're also doing this for other people like USA Today. For Legalzoom, it's a very different model. We bought sites, built a studio system, and now we're figuring out what different formats to approach.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Plus, younger attorneys understand technology, and are used to sites like eBay, Etsy, and others like that. That''s why people turn to Legalzoom and Docstoc, and use those free documents because they just don''t want to deal with lawyers. If you think about finding legal help, it''s not like you''re buying a t-shirt.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses.

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Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

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APRIL 24, 2012

Lee of Legalzoom.com and ShoeDazzle, Jody Mulkey of Shopzilla, and Lawrence Ng of Oversee.net have all invested in the site. According to SocialAnnex, Kamran Pourzanjani of PriceGrabber.com, Brian S. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. Social Annex was founded in 2010.

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MAY 3, 2011

The site said it will donate 10% of TroopSwap.com's profits to the Wounded Warrior Project, and also employ military spouses and veterans for community outreach. Monestere is a former Green Beret; Craig is a former Marine; and Perdew is a former Army Ranger. As part of the funding, Kelly Perdew joins the company's board of directors.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. If you did nothing, you'd just site in the unhappy state -- you basically had to say you were unhappy to get taken care of. What kind of customers are using the tool? Jeff Zwelling: Today, we have lots of e-commerce and online subscription customers.

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Startup Marketing Customer Custom 210

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JANUARY 27, 2020

The crash site where Bryant and the others crashed is within view of a cluster of business parks, which houses some of the high tech companies along the 101 corridor.

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Thousand Oaks Legalzoom Calabasas High Tech 113

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. 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.

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