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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

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Obtaining funding is a key milestone, but equally important is helping fledgling companies build institutional mass once they leave the relatively safe confines of an accelerator. Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors. Bringing an accelerators’ graduates back as mentors provides value to the next class, certainly.

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Citrix’s CEO Mark Templeton: Personal And Professional Success Secrets

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Family & Mentors - "A family is the people who believe in you. Mentors are the people you are copying. Mentors and role models are a shortcut to become something you believe in.". it will keep you humble and it will help you focus on the things you can control. and make it easier (for you) to be persistent.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

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I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. Ask For Mentoring.

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

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I am always on the lookout for inspiring entrepreneurs who have leveraged their passions into healthy livelihoods as they serve as instructive role models for my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. I grew to love many things about skating as I got into the industry I helped to create. In a class by himself.

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Interview with Alex Schneider, Ventura Ventures Technology Center

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In fact, they just helped us invest in Lottay, where we participated in their Series A round of investment. We are able to do events like this launch party to give them more exposure, and there's also a mentoring components, and access to capital through DFJ Frontier and other venture capitalists and angels.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. Dinesh earned his B.S. Community Sponsors.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start.

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