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Reflections on 2016: Michael Terpin, Transform Group

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All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. He's also a very active angel investor. Here, we have the thoughts of Michael Terpin of Transform Group. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

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Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, crowdfunding still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. In the U.S., In Europe, other investors can buy equity, with platforms such as Seedrs. Marty Zwilling.

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AmplifyLA: Dramatic Drop In Seed Funding In LA In Q1

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percent from Q4 of 2016, and 43.8 AmplifyLA pointed out that the seed deals were in contrast to the bigger picture, where venture capital investments were up 15 percent nationally--but pointed out that those gains were driven by "mega-deals", rather than seed funding. Venice, California-based startup accelerator Amplify.LA

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. In the U.S., In Europe, other investors can buy equity, with platforms such as Seedrs. Marty Zwilling.

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Reflections On 2017: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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Since we started Science six years ago, we've co-founded and invested in more than 70 companies and have exited multiple portfolio companies. So this fall, we launched Science Blockchain, a new incubator that partners with leading entrepreneurs to build a portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency related businesses.

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What I Learned In 2015: Lawrence Ng, OnRamp Fund

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Based in Los Angeles and Taipei, Taiwan, it's a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. What are the technologies or things you think people ought to watch in 2016? Today's thoughts are from Lawrence Ng , who founded Oversee.net, and just launched the OnRamp Fund (onrampfund.com).

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Interview Behzad Kianmahd, TAU Ventures

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Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). It was the Summer of 2016, if I'm not mistaken.