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Reflections on 2018: Anna Barber, Techstars LA

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Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. This year I got back to the basics of helping founders build strong, high functioning teams.

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Reflections on 2018: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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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. The early-stage tech ecosystems here in LA and in Austin (we have offices in both) are growing so quickly, and we are fired up to help fuel that growth.

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Meet Martha Harper, The Social Entrepreneur Who Perfected The Franchise Business Model

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Yet many people do not realize that one of the pioneers who helped perfect the franchise business model was a woman. At that time, only 17% of the women in American had salaried jobs outside of the home and the number of female entrepreneurs was de minimis. Social Entrepreneuring (Before It Was Cool). Martha’s Legacy Lives On.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025. There's a tightness which is squeezing the lifeblood from the entrepreneurs, even as it remains an amazing place. The first step, is to attract more entrepreneurs.

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

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But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. Actually, winter did come and I have the data that shows it. Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather. This chart surprised me the most.

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Grant Applications Often Provide Early-Stage Funding

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A critical stage for most first-time entrepreneurs is getting their idea developed into at least a prototype to validate their technology. Experts are available to help, but fees are high. You need to make an ROI assessment of value versus cost on outside help at this stage. Detailed grant accounting requirements.

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