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Building and Growing Great Businesses

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At SoftBank Capital, a venture capital fund, he helped with investments in mobile, digital media and enterprise software startups totaling $50 million; Ash Kumra is a business coach, speaker and entrepreneur. Speakers: Tarang Shah is a venture capital professional. See [link] (more)

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Meet the Xconomy Awards San Diego Digital Trailblazer Finalists

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The finalists in the Digital Trailblazer category of the Xconomy Awards San Diego highlight the wide variety of healthtech ideas emanating from local startups and big companies alike, ranging from virtual coaches for physical therapy patients, to experimental software designed to address Alzheimer’s symptoms.

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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

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A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. Maybe it’s knowledge of the players and dynamics of the mobile ad ecosystem. A large part of this conversation is what kinds of advisors startups should be looking for.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS. I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

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The company has a majority stake in Team Liquid, a top esports team in the US and Europe with 60 pro players, coaches, and analysts competing in nine games as well as a minority stake in Super League Gaming. Brit + Co is a digital media company that inspires, educates and entertains real women with a creative spirit.

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How Liferay Grew To More Than $100M After Starting In A Church Basement

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Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company. What is LifeRay?

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

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I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. This means that early software architecture can sometimes not work as well as the startup moves forward. One of your better developers leaves. Is there a lot of rework?

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