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Reflections on 2018: Anna Barber, Techstars LA

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This year I got back to the basics of helping founders build strong, high functioning teams. And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Reflections on 2017: Michael Terpin, Transform Group International

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I'm looking forward to opening up new markets, including the expansion of family offices and other traditional investors to the amazing asset class that cryptocurrency has become. Previously, Terpin founded Marketwired, one of the world's largest company newswires, which was acquired in 2006 and later sold to NASDAQ for $200 million.

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Profitability Helps San Diego Lender Step Out from Industry Cloud

Xconomy

LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded. The company became a Wall Street darling when it raised $1 billion-plus through its 2014 IPO, and now claims to have deployed roughly $19 billion in loans since inception.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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Mr. Csathy helps clients by leveraging his vast network of relationships and unique breadth of business and operational experience that is equally split between new and traditional media. Mr. Csathy’s career spans Internet, music, motion pictures/video, live entertainment, and technology. Babak Razi - Founder Third Wave Ventures.

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. Despite my cynicism of MBA’s , this class was very valuable to me. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class.

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Interview with Albert Ko, DealPerk.com

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Those deals require that a certain minimum people participate, and many also have a maximum number to take advantage of those limited time specials, which helps them to get more exposure and business, plus helps out the community. How did DealPerk.com come about? Albert Ko: I've always liked the local edge.