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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018? One of the promising companies that participated in Startup Boosts Fall 2018 cohort  Lawgood (link: [link]  uses AI as part of their service to provide review and authorship of legal contracts. The desire to build and advance this community is strong.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. We met everybody in the organization.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. We met everybody in the organization.

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How To Maximize Your Value At A Startup: Your Greatest Ability Is Often Your Availability

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His willingness to add value wherever his coach needed him most, not only helped his teams win three consecutive World Championships, but it also allowed Bert to extend his career by making himself Indispensible. In addition to these utility roles, I also lead revenue generation: managing direct sales, business development and online sales.

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To My Wife, On Mother’s Day

Both Sides of the Table

We observe them in their daily lives and interactions with their teachers, coaches and friends and we look on with pride and the wonderful little human beings they have become. Now three years later we look on with wonder and their developed skills on the piano and guitar. You gave them that gift, not me.

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

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I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. So, we moved forward from there, and organically grew, creating a boutique agency. We wanted to bring together the babysitters and nannies in the community, and started working with them as contracts. Are your sitters W2 or contract employees?

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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

In a very recent international bribery case, Alcatel-Lucent decided to pay $137 million to settle charges that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to foreign officials to win and maintain contracts in Costa Rica, Hondurus, Taiwan and Malaysia. The days of a “slap on the wrist” for offenders are gone. The resulted in the U.S.