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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

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Remember, you can send me tips, suggestions and feedback to kate.clark@techcrunch.com or on Twitter @KateClarkTweets. million round led by Los Angeles firm Upfront Ventures, with participation from Mucker Capital and Matchstick Ventures. HappyOrNot nabs $25M for its customer satisfaction terminals .

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Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is buying a startup that uses neuroscience to boost app usage

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.” In practice, that has meant creating a business that sells mindfulness and general health and wellness tips and tricks to a cohort of corporations that believe increased mental and physical health can lead to greater on-the-job productivity.

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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

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Iceberg tip, not even scratched. He gave his talk (with plenty of jokes and punchlines to keep it light-hearted) with a level of certainty of someone who’s given similar advice to many others, on some cases been ignored, and probably had the satisfaction of having a few ‘I told you so’s.

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

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Earlier this week we had the opportunity to sit in at The General Assembly, Los Angeles for a fully stacked panel on a Day in the Life of a Product Manager (PM). Vic’s pro-tip: Buy yourself a 20 dollar HDMI cable splitter and just observe your users. Always understand the “why” of the user.

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