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What I Learned In 2015: Richard Wolpert

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Wolpert is also a longtime angel investor in Southern California's technology industry, helping to run technology accelerator Amplify, investing in countless startups, working with Accel Partners, and having been Chief Strategy Officer of RealNetworks, President of Disney Online, among other positions.

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What I Learned In 2015: Richard Wolpert, HelloTech

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Wolpert is also a longtime angel investor in Southern California's technology industry, helping to run technology accelerator Amplify, investing in countless startups, working with Accel Partners, and having been Chief Strategy Officer of RealNetworks, President of Disney Online, among other positions.

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What I Learned In 2015: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015. Just this year alone we have studied 3,400 North American enterprise software companies including many in SoCal and dug in deep on over 200 of these companies. be the pig and don't get greedy.

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Brighter Turns To Employers With Brighter PRO

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Los Angeles-based dental care marketplace Brighter --which is led by startup veteran Jake Winebaum--said Thursday that it has launched a new platform called Brighter PRO. The new platform is aimed specifically at employers, helping them to gain control of their dental costs and claims. READ MORE>>.

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What I Learned In 2015: Lief Morin, KeyInfo

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It was refreshing to see my team make so much progress in my absence. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? Lief resides in Southern California and enjoys photography and martial arts. When we returned to the U.S. Vendors and startups will embrace OpenStack and Dockers.

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Howard Marks: What I Learned This Year

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It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. So, what is PeerStreet? Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors.