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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. People can come in and have a coffee.

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Mission Ventures' Lee Departs For Stealth Startup

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Jeff Lee , a senior associate at San Diego- and Los Angeles-based Mission Ventures , has quietly left the firm to head up a newly founded, stealth startup, according to Lee's LinkedIn profiles and bounced emails to his Mission Ventures address. Lee has not yet announced what he his new startup is up to.

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Reflections on 2020: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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2020 was a crash course in leadership and we saw many great entrepreneurs step up and rise to the challenge. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? Remote communications have transformed the way we do business and I expect we will see a dramatic change in how workforces are set up.

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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M Media and Entertainment was at $55.5M

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.”

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Looking At LA's Technology Future with Derek Norton

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We also put together the Series B with Redpoint for Machinima. It's like New York, which because of all the advertising folks who have spun out of the companies and agencies there where the economy tanked, and have started creating innovative companies. We have been fortunate to be part of a number of exiting Los Angeles companies.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

But I thought I’d take some more time here to expand on what I think are the challenges, and opportunities, of starting a tech company in LA. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists. Opportunity #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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