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Spotting, Nurturing and Mentoring Talent – The Power of Troy Carter

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The “what” is well known in LA circles – Troy discovered a little known young singer named Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga and helped her launch her career. That is PRECISELY what Shep Gordon said he did to help Alice Cooper break out two decades before.

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How More Women Are Becoming Angel Investors, with Eva Yazhari

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In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. The program helps them learn the tools to become angel investors in female led enterprises.

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Meet us at StartEngine Wednesday

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We're helping Los Angeles-based StartEngine screen possible startups this Wednesday at their offices all day. StartEngine is the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks , the co-founder of Activision, which invests up to $20,000 in startups and helps them build their businesses through a 90 day mentoring program.

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6 Tips For Ramping Up Your Work Culture For Tomorrow

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Spend more time mentoring and coaching your team. Real mentoring always improves engagement and productivity, because team members know the “why” of their work, and how it benefits them, as well as your customers. Focus on employee interests, and how their work can help their future.

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Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood, LA Tech Summit, and Idea to Screen | Why You Need to Attend Any or All

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Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. ” It’s like having an online studio helping independent filmmakers and YouTubers get seen.

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Interview with Kevin Hell, EvoNexus

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Running that effort is Kevin Hell , the founder of DivX, who we caught up with to learn more about EvoNexus and how the group is trying to help grow technology startups in San Dieog. They've provided a completely free facility, furniture, Internet access, mentoring, sponsorship--all of those things are provided for free.

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Why Female Founder Office Hours is So Important

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Please help share this widely so that more women become aware of this important resource that is being run nationally. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!” LA Female Office Hours. Inclusion begets understanding, which in turn begets more comprehensive decisions. You don’t get it.