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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

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The newly minted founder joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator , where she developed a curriculum to teach people how to repair EV chargers. It was here that she met Ellis, a career coach at LACI who also worked at the Long Beach Job Corp Center. ChargerHelp takes a workforce-development approach to finding employees.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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She is a coach and mentor to team members. As a firm we start by wanting to attract future partners who have worked at startups before and have developed a competence which might be marketing (Greg) or product and CEO experience (Kara) plus amazing Biz Dev experience (Hamet). And the contractions always come back.

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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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One of the promising companies that participated in Startup Boosts Fall 2018 cohort  Lawgood (link: [link]  uses AI as part of their service to provide review and authorship of legal contracts. It is a complex area delivered as a simple, elegant, and highly accurate solution.

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Reflections On 2017: Anna Barber, Techstars LA

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The first, the distributed platform that supports smart contracts, which as a technology has great disruptive potential across many industries but is still early. A certified executive coach, Anna works with her portfolio companies to build great teams, develop a sound strategy and create a strong network. Find her @annawbarber.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects.

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

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I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. We wanted to bring together the babysitters and nannies in the community, and started working with them as contracts. How did you handle going from a background in child care, to developing and app and figuring out the technology side of things?

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