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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. With the VC ranks shrinking, founders need to tap every source of capital out there.

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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. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018? What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

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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. We connected.

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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. On Losing in VC. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC.

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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. On Losing in VC. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC.

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First Ever Startup Weekend Orange County Live!

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He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Southern California and his MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management where he was a Deutschman Venture Fellow. His career spans more than 28 years in Europe and the US in the development and growth of high technology ventures.

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Embrace Losing

Both Sides of the Table

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). We met everybody in the organization. Somebody had gotten to somebody senior in the Thames organization. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. But we worked the account tirelessly for months.

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