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Does Your Mentor Play These 6 Roles?

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Bob Wood has been a mentor to dozens of professionals during his long career in public service. As noted in You''re Never Too Old (Or Too Successful) For A Mentor , Bob has become not only my mentor, but also my friend. Establishing a mentor relationship is emotionally akin to asking someone out on a date.

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LA Cleantech Incubator Gets $5M For New Program

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The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) has just received $5M to fund a new initiative, called Energize California , to help boost clean technology startups.

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Kevin O'Connor, ScOp Venture Capital, On Startup Success and Investments

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Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick. When I moved to Santa Barbara, I actually didn't know a lot about the technology industry here. Congrats on the new name for your venture capital firm.

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5 Ways Poker Legend Annie Duke’s Brilliant Book Will Help You (And Your Startup) Make Better Decisions

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I was fortunate enough to interview Annie for my UCTV Innovator Stories series, filmed at UC Santa Barbara. Join A Truth-seeking Pod – Annie was mentored by several veteran poker players. I’ve shared it with some of the CEOs with whom I work, as I know it will help them craft more thoughtful decisions. Top T akeaways.

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Susan Cooney

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She later joined forces with the founding team at PayPal to help launch the influential online payments service. She’s also an advisor, mentor and investor in several startups. Susan graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is the author of ‘The e-Auction Insider’ by McGraw-Hill.

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TCA Stresses Mixers, New Website

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According to the Tech Coast Angels' Richard Sudek, Chairman of the TCA, the group is looking to hold bi-monthly mixers which will help entrepreneurs connect with its angel investors, after a successful mixer in late 2009. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year.

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