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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. For many founders, this type of mature leadership doesnt come naturally.

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Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass

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Stained Glass Labs (SGL), the first Glass and wearable technologies accelerator has launched the world’s first comprehensive app directory and a self-service app publishing portal for Google Glass pre-launched applications. The post Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass appeared first on TechZulu.

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8 Keys To Providing Consulting Services To Startups

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Many consultants today are hard to contact between scheduled meetings, due to their formal communication processes. If your customer dress code or decisions process is informal, you should adapt yours to fit in, rather than continue to act and look like an outsider. Google and social media have transformed the business world.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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Reviewing financial & operational performance. In the first two years we were really focused on getting our product adopted through major channel partners like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google, eBay, ShareASale and others. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale. Mentorship.

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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. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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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. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings

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It makes no sense to meet in August or December due to travel schedules of most investors. For the record, this is not a secret, coded messages to companies for which I am on the board! And let’s be honest, other than money and coaching most VC’s add little value to your company strategy.

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