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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

socalTECH

Leaseville, the pioneer in the virtual lease-to-own (LTO) space demonstrated strong metrics on its new product this year and is now poised to scale significantly. One of our SaaS companies made great strides with a new product. What is the biggest lesson you learned this year? Two lessons learnedand relearned! READ MORE>>.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

socalTECH

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. How long has company been around?

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Reflections On 2017: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

socalTECH

The attractive by-product is that I am reading more and working out more. I continue to be surprised by some clever SoCal entrepreneurs who are creating out-of-the box companies that are opportunistic and reflect our markets ingenuity. Overall I am optimistic for 2018.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Last month, the product launched with $1.2 million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Product : You should build a product or a prototype. You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product. Great companies are built by having great products. And a great product starts with the founder. But for most businesses it is. Go research it.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Same goes for television.

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