Day: June 20, 2025

Board hears from chorus of Moellenkamp supporters

The fate of David Moellenkamp, a choir director whose leadership, together with student performance, has brought national prominence to the Los Al Unified School District, is uncertain. After nearly two decades of propelling the Los Alamitos Unified School District’s choral department into national prominence, the district’s board contemplates replacing him Read More

Drew Chapin’s Startup Newsletter Shares a Look at the Philly Startup Scene

After ten years in San Francisco’s high-energy, chaos-driven startup world, Drew Chapin expected that his next chapter might be a quieter one. But when that move turned out to be to Philadelphia – a city without an obvious on-ramp into its entrepreneurial scene – he found himself facing an unexpected Read More

From Telemarketing to Erewhon Market: How Banking Sales Tactics Helped Build a Premium Chocolate Brand

This is the belief of Kseniia Kuznetcova, who worked in bank sales for many years and then co-founded the vegan chocolate brand MONI Chocolate in Los Angeles, ensuring it was sold on the shelves of one of the most prestigious and demanding markets in the region – Erewhon Market. In Read More

Five Point Holdings to Buy Homebuilding Investor

Five Point Holdings LLC, the Irvine-based owner and developer of master-planned neighborhoods, announced today it entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Calabasas-based Hearthstone Inc., a private investment partner for homebuilders and residential developments. The acquisition will result in a newly formed business called Hearthstone Residential Holdings Read More