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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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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. We continue to have a steady stream of industry and thought leaders raising their hands to be mentors for our upcoming cohorts.

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Insights and Opinions: The Odd Couple: Angels and Accelerators

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Southern California has the one of the largest gathering of organized angel investment groups, and a huge crop of startup accelerators: there's only one problem, which is they don't naturally work together. As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasnt. The Angel funding process can be arduous.

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

Both Sides of the Table

When I kicked off Launchpad LA a year ago I had a few objectives: Create an ecosystem where all Southern California VC’s had the chance to work together more actively outside of the boards on which we mutually sit. When we started I told everybody we would run the organization as a startup itself. How’d we do?

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Agile User Group - ScrumMaster Anti-Patterns

SoCal Tech Calendar

Yet quite a few ScrumMasters struggle with the role, and a lot of organizations aren't gaining the benefits a ScrumMaster is intended to provide. Our speaker will be Paul Hodgetts, who has been involved in lean and agile development as a coach, mentor and team member since 1998. See [link] (more).

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

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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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Interview with Mike Napoli, Tech Coast Angels

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We're beginning to engage them more in mentoring and coaching, and we've been known to make very, very early stage seed investments to help companies finish up their plans or prototypes, and inch them along a little more.

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Social Enterprise Venture Competition

SoCal Tech Calendar

The program provides training and mentoring programs for mission-based nonprofits seeking to create an earned income stream through a social venture. The panelists then selected the four finalists. The winner will be awarded a package of cash and pro bono support valued at over $10,000 to support their growth plan. See [link] (more).