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We're Live!
Thank you for your patience and your good will. We've received so many kind words and congratulations since we announced this project less than a month ago. Today is our the first day we publish at dot.LA. Already it has been busy. Though we're thrilled to be getting started, we — like the rest of our city — are crestfallen at the loss of Kobe Bryant, a brilliant leader and a budding venture capitalist with so much promise. L.A. Senior reporter Ben Bergman's profile of Bryant and his role as a mentor to the city's burgeoning startup culture is a must-read.
Also today, we take a preview this week's Startup World Cup and the Montgomery Summit in Australia. Meanwhile, veteran journalist Lawrence Ingrassia looks at how direct-to-consumer companies like El Segundo's eSalon and L.A.'s Dollar Shave Club are changing the market.
Stay with us as we get started and get better acquanted with our website, our new office(s) and you, our audience. Let us know if you have story ideas, qwuestions or concerns. And stay tuned!
Today's stories
"Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act," former President Barack Obama tweeted Sunday. Bryant's career as a venture capitalist was tragically cut short.
In an excerpt from "Billion Dollar Brand Club," journalist Lawrence Ingrassia tells the story how collecting consumer data with super-charged algorithms transform retailers into household names. And some of the questions companies ask can be quite personal -- "How long is your hair? How much gray do you have?"
"If you have a trillion dollars in a room, you'll find something to do together." The Montgomery Summit, held annually in Santa Monica, has a scaled-down version in Australia this week.
The most cut-throat competition for startups isn't happening in a shark tank — it's being played out in an auditorium at Pepperdine University. Contestants include an emergency device alerting that someone is drowning and a robotic kitchen assistant named "Flippy."
Drybar Products LLC, was acquired last week for roughly $255 million in cash by El Paso, Texas-based Helen of Troy Limited, a designer, developer and worldwide marketer of consumer brand-name housewares, health and beauty products.
Hundreds of Amazon's staffers, from delivery drivers to secretaries, are calling out the e-commerce titan for its climate policy and an HR rule that prevents them from speaking publicly about the company's carbon footprint. Can Jeff Bezos deliver a compromise that can keep the peace -- and satisfy Hollywood?