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Reflections on 2018: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. We continue to focus on companies with Recurring Revenue (SaaS, Subcription) and in FinTech. I remain VERY bullish on SoCal's tech community.

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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? ,p> We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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Reflections on 2020: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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Interview with Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV

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It's surprising how often we run into rapidly growing companies that not many people have heard of, here in Southern California, but that's the case with El Segundo-based. A lot of software startups have shied away from serving public institutions, despite a big market, due to concerns about how slow they adopt things.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What are the biggest areas of technical risk?

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Interview with Andrew Schydlowsky, TrackStreet: Brand Protection Using AI

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Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. What is TrackStreet? How are you able to do all this? How did you start the business?

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. So how does this apply to you?

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