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Thrive Market Picks Up $111M In New Funding

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Marina Del Rey-based, online healthy foods grover Thrive Market has raised $111M in a new, venture funding round, the company disclosed this morning. Thrive Market, which is led by Nick Green and Gunnar Lovelace, recently passed up $100M in revenues, and has been seeing a huge expansion in its customer base.

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Guidance Names New Marketing VP

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Marina Del Rey-based Guidance , which helps brands and retailers build online websites and apps, said Monday that it has named Jeff Hererra as its new Vice President of Marketing and Channel Development. Hererra was previously Head of Partner Marketing at Magento. He also has served at Visa.

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OnBoat Launches Boat Charter Marketplace In LA

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The site lists private charters ranging from a two hour tour from Marina Del Rey for $289.99 The service, led by Marc Andelman, already offers its services in San Francisco, San Diego, Miami, and other locations, including a number of international destinations. to three hour parties on a luxury yacht for $3,599.99.

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Rumor: Cooking.com Slashes Staff, Seeks Buyer

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Marina Del Rey-based Cooking.com is looking for a buyer, and has recently laid off at least sixteen staff, according to a reader tip. The anonymous tipster said that an interim management team is now seeing to sell the company after a severe layoff by its investors. READ MORE>>.

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Twenty20 Gets $20M For Crowdsourced Stock Photography

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Marina Del Rey-based Twenty20 is taking aim at the stock photography market, announcing this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series A funding and launched its commercial image catalog out of beta. Twenty20 said that existing, stock image sites have left a vacuum due to their "staged, dated photos".

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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For this morning's interview, we thought we'd catch up with two of the co-founders of Marina Del Rey-based Telesign (www.telesign.com), Ryan Disraeli and Stacy Stubblefield. For us, that benefited Telesign as well, because the market was catching up to what we were offering. Talk about Telesign and what you do?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

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Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. A few months later, eBay called us to say that they were pulling all of the advertisements from their site because they were distracting and they didn’t want people to leave their site. Startup 3.0: