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

Both Sides of the Table

He found out to get on the radar screens of Will Smith, P Diddy, Biggie Smalls – when Troy wasn’t even 20. But we also talked about how: Troy didn’t finish high school (was kicked out of a few and dropped out of a few).

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Mentors-Plus-Capital Programs – Intense Incubation

Startup Professionals Musings

At VT KnowledgeWorks we screen prospective clients for their Market opportunity, for the Magic that they offer to their prospective customers, and for the Moxie displayed by the start-up team. There is a growing fellowship of special-case start-up programs operated by closely-knit, permanent groups of angel-mentors.

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6 Tips For Ramping Up Your Work Culture For Tomorrow

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my experience as a business advisor, I recommend that every business owner and entrepreneur focus on the following tips to provide a better work culture: Invest in integrating new technology, not just forcing it. Technology as an add-on by edict is not satisfying. Spend more time mentoring and coaching your team.

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How More Women Are Becoming Angel Investors, with Eva Yazhari

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To learn more about how women are looking to change the investment climate--and get involved in investing themselves--we caught up with one of the Pipeline Fellowship''s local mentors, the CEO of Beyond Capital Fund (www.beyondcapitalfund.org), Eva Helene Yazhari , who is here in Los Angeles. What is the Pipeline Fellowship?

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

Tech Zulu Event

The intersection of entertainment and technology has been a long time coming. 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. This is true offline too.

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DataPop Gets $1.7M

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The company's technology allows search marketers to automatically create more relevant search ads, which result in a better response rate than a standard generic ad. DataPop is one of the companies in LaunchpadLA, the business mentoring and incubation effort being spearheaded by GRP Partners' Mark Suster. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2016: Cody Simms, Techstars

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This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. Today, we have Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars (www.techstars.org), which has been very active this year in the startup accelerator and mentoring area.