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Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic

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Blade, backed by Lerer Hippeau, Airbus, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and others, currently flies passengers around the New York City area, where it’s headquartered, offering the region’s wealthy $800 flights to the Hamptons, among other flights at various price points.

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Platinum Equity Bumps Offer For Electro Rent To $382M

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Beverly Hills-based private equity investor Platinum Equity announced this morning that it has bumped its offer for Van Nuys-based Electro Rent to $15.50 The new price bumps the total value of the deal to approximately $382.2M. per share in cash, up from an earlier, $13.12 per share offer.

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Platinum Equity Acquires Electro Rent For $323.4M

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Beverlly Hills-based private equity investor Platinum Equity , and Van Nuys-based Electro Rent said Tuesday that the two are in a definitive agreement, where Platinum Equity will pay approximately $323.4M percent over the company's closing price on May 27th. for Electro Rent. Platinum Equity said ti will pay $13.12

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Interview with Brandon Hance, Audiolife

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Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. We have some minimum price points for every product they might want to sell. What's the idea behind Audiolife? That might be 50 shirts, our a couple hundred CDs. for a shirt.

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