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Reflections on 2018: Richard Wolpert, The Soul Of A Deal

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Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. This morning's reflections are from Richard Wolpert , a longtime Southern California investor, and now author of The Soul Of A Deal ([link].

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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We'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. We'll even write a half a million check. Here in Southern California, we do have a ways to go. That as unhealthy.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

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I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H. You are writing about the essentials of business. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. True Ventures – When I was raising capital for my second company back in 2006 I had talked to many brand-name VCs and had several term sheets. ” So I thought about what was unique about me.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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Plus, there's always shoulder surfing--when people write them down, and are grabbing for your daytimer or spreadsheet for passwords--that's treating passwords like it's the 1950's, and leaving your front door key under a door mat. But, it was important that was in Southern California.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? splunk is neat since it's somewhere in-between writing your own log parsing and buying off-the-shelf reporting.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. It’s all dumped from memory without further thoughts and didn’t face a syntax checker. I consider this pamphlet kinda draft of a concept, not a design pattern or tutorial. I’d be happy to discuss your thoughts in the comments. Thanks for your time.

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