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Building and Growing Great Businesses

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 -- Building and Growing Great Businesses. Speakers: Tarang Shah is a venture capital professional. At SoftBank Capital, a venture capital fund, he helped with investments in mobile, digital media and enterprise software startups totaling $50 million; Ash Kumra is a business coach, speaker and entrepreneur.

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The Valuable Unsung Heroes of Startups

Both Sides of the Table

And speaking of coaching, if you haven’t read Googled by Ken Auletta you should. And in it he profiles the work of Coach Campbell who was once on the boards of both Google & Apple. EXECUTIVE COACHES. I loved the quote so had to include it, “All medal winners have coaches. VENTURE CAPITAL.

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Green LAVA Meeting

SoCal Tech Calendar

Friday, July 20, 2012 -- Green LAVA Meeting. Los Angeles launched its cleantech business incubator to accelerate development of cleantech start-ups by offering flexible office space, CEO coaching and mentoring, and access to a growing network of experts and capital. LACIis the business equivalent of baseball?s

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Understanding the Politics of Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

It’s why I called out the importance of “executive coaches” in this post. Given how important people management is it’s surprising more of us don’t have group coaches. And I can tell you from first-hand experience this is EXACTLY what goes on inside startups.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. We had a specific goal in mind.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. I was pretty sure we were going to raise another round of capital. But you realize that you can be more helpful as a coach.

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Pipeline Fellowship | Raising Women to Become Investors

Tech Zulu Event

There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. Natalia not only wants to increase the number of women in investment, but bring more people in total to help startups and other businesses get the capital they need. Entrepreneurs are everywhere and capital isn’t. We are creating even more capital than the initial group commitment.

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