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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. This year ushered in the successful launch our second fund at Moonshots Capital, further validating our thesis that investing in extraordinary leadership produces exceptional companies.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. Here's the contribution by Matt Stodder of StartupBoost LA (our apologies to Matt for the late post, our fault, not his!).

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Anna Barber is the Managing Director at Techstars LA where she invests in B2B and B2C early stage startups. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. I also find that Southern California is an amazing place for talent.

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Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

That has allowed us to be more focused earlier with these companies, and we can come to a decision much sooner to go ahead or not go ahead with an investment. Even just five years ago, we probably wouldn't have talked to, mentored, or coached them--we might have sent them to an organization like TriTech and told them to come back later.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 231

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MAY 23, 2017

You can google him, and you can see he's now CEO of Lucid Sight, another Southern California company, which is in VR and AR. Bill talks about growing up at the Naval Academy with his father, who was an assistant football coach there, and saying that was the most impactful experience on his coaching career.

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JULY 1, 2013

It consisted of what today would be called an accelerator, which involves sprinkling a few dollars and coaching on other people. I have found ten incubators across the country--none in Southern California--doing what we''re doing, and doing it very successfully. That ended up being the wrong model. It was a failure.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. Let me not bury the lede. The company was called Red Beacon.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. and Schlumberger. Make it Simple to Manage Business Or Close Deals.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011 -- Agile in Action is a free, half day learning series to help practicing teams maximize their agile investments and new teams understand where to start. Featuring noted coach David Hussman, four presentations will give you the practical information to effectively transition your people, processes and platforms.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Maneesh works with Miramar portfolio companies to identify growth drivers, potential business partners and evaluate prospective investment opportunities. Maneesh’s prior investing experience includes an associate position at El Dorado Ventures. Managing Director of Miramar Venture Partners. He joined Miramar in 2006. Amir Banifatemi.

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Orange County Miramar Startup Tech Coast Angels 106

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JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. That’s healthy.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. . The group invested $8.7 Target investors that have invested in your field.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Key Events include: June 14-16: Hackathon presented by AT&T will gather a few hundred developers, coaches, and business professionals who will create startup pitches at ROC Santa Monica. billion was invested in Southern California start-ups with 220 new companies launching in Los Angeles. In 2012 over $3.2

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MARCH 10, 2010

One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D. We spoke to Robin about the new startup, his executive team, as well as his angel investing activity here. Those include how-to on resumes, aptitude tests, videos, coaching seminars, and more of that nature.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 24, 2012

I was lucky enough to be at LaunchPad LA last night to hear Dustin Dolginow from Atlas Ventures/ AngelList.co coach the incoming class on how best to use AngelList to fund their companies. Much of the advice was basic–have your elevator pitch down, raise enough $$ for 18 months runway, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

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! I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. Partners make investment decisions. ” In VC terms that means the key questions you need to answer are, is this investor: Geographically focused and have they invested in my geography before?

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