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How To Make The Most Of Your DNA As An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Anyone who works with entrepreneurs will tell you that all are different. I’ve always wondered if there was some way that I could quickly deduce a new entrepreneur’s “sweet spot,” and optimize my mentoring to those strengths and weaknesses, maybe similar to the Myers-Briggs type indicator for business professionals. Specialist.

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Venture firm M13 names former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner

TechCrunch LA

Designed to be a collaborative startup company incubator alongside corporate partners, Launchpad focuses on developing new consumer tech businesses focused on M13’s main investment areas: health, food, transportation, and housing. Anna Barber, partner, M13. Image Credit: Raif Strathmann.

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How Valence Aims to Provide Better Access and Funding for Black Founders & Executives

Both Sides of the Table

It is a company with a mission to create better access and more funding for Black entrepreneurs and executives. And Black entrepreneurs wanted access to decision makers but didn’t always have the easy connections. You can hear more about the importance of mentoring from Kobie Fuller, Valence advisor James Lowry, and John Legend?

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Interview with Kevin Hell, EvoNexus

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A couple of weeks ago, twelve companies moved into the new downtown San Diego, EvoNexus incubator--which is run by CommNexus. Kevin Hell: What makes EvoNexus unique, is that it is--as far as we know--the only completely free, no-strings-attached incubator in the nation. Once they pass that, they get into the incubator.

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Not All Entrepreneurs are Cut From the Same Cloth

Startup Professionals Musings

Anyone who works with entrepreneurs will tell you that all are different. I’ve always wondered if there was some way that I could quickly deduce a new entrepreneur’s “sweet spot,” and optimize my mentoring to those strengths and weaknesses, maybe similar to the Myers-Briggs type indicator for business professionals. Specialist.

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Interview with Alex Schneider, Ventura Ventures Technology Center

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On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms. Tell us about the incubator--how long as it been around?

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Interview with Sam Teller, LaunchpadLA

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There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. It was really just something built for the community to help support entrepreneurs.

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