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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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There was no monetary reward for those who participated (and Startup Boost does not take fees or equity from the companies that we help). Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Yet they turned-out each and every week of our six-week programs.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 25 Years of Writing Code. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation. million Raised.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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There were startups and a software industry but barely. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment. The tide has gone out.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

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I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. He would have found somebody technical and inspired that individual to work for equity or deferred payment. I said that was my point.