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Reflections on 2019: Scott Alderton, Preccelerator

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Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. As the Preccelerator has grown, we have continually seen stronger and stronger early stage ventures, led by better and better entrepreneurs.

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

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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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Accelerators Have Resources To KickStart Your Startup

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One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. This association is definitely one of the world’s leading organization for advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship.

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Share Ventures, an LA-based studio for company creation, is MoviePass co-founder Hamet Watt’s next act

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Watt, who came to MoviePass as an entrepreneur in residence at True Ventures, previously founded the brand and product placement startup NextMedium and also spent time as a board partner at Upfront Ventures. Now, the serial entrepreneur and startup investor is combining his two career paths under the auspices of Share Ventures.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

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Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators.

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EV subscription startup Canoo, co-founder sued for alleged harassment

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Stefan Krause filed for divorce from Christina Krause in July 2019. Stern is a German entrepreneur who the lawsuit also lists as a friend of Stefan Krause. Stern is listed as a director to UK incubator Pitch@Palace and as consultant for Celestial Limited. Canoo has never revealed the names of its primary investors.

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LA Investors, Startups Launch PledgeLA, Effort Around Diversity, Inclusion

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The effort is being driven by a very long list of investors in Los Angeles, although the group says that around 20 companies have signed on to be involved; PledgeLA says it expects to expand to other tech entrepreneurs and CEOs/foudners of LA-based tech companies in Q1 of 2019.

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