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Maverick Angels Merging Members Into Tech Coast Angels, Say Members

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The move has not yet been announced by either group--however, Maverick Angels has been advertising an event about the "launch of our new company" in March, implying some big changes for the angel group. In recent years, the Maverick Angels had mostly been focused on running coaching programs and seminars for entrepreneurs. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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Matt is also an executive coach and partner at Evolution Services (link: [link] a high growth executive coaching and consulting firm based in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and New York. READ MORE>>.

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Brickfish Snags Sales Exec From Google

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Mangrove Capital Partners, and OCA Ventures, and counts such firms as Nike, MTV Networks, Coach, The North Face, Samsung, and others as clients. Tags: brickfish social media advertising executive google urchin software. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P., READ MORE>>.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

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Silicon Beach Fest covers more than 30 topics that uniquely reflect LA’s strengths, including: Investors, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment, Games, Social Media, Digital Content, Advertising Technology, Design UX/UI, Fashion, and more. Current media partners include Los Angeles Times, PandoDaily, TechZulu, SoCalTech and VentureBeat.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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Usually, it's someone with just curiosity about the app, and the advertisers will pay several dollars for that download, only to have the user just delete the app, without having ever played it or even gotten through a tutorial. To a man, they tell us it's the best advertising unit they've ever seen in their life. That's number two.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

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When you would fund a company in a space--say, digital out of home advertising--people would point to Focus Media being worth $6 billlion, and you would suddenly see five companies each raise more than $10M, and some raising $20M, at extremely high valuations. If you're one of the ten finalists, you get intense coaching.