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Interview with Mike Napoli, Tech Coast Angels

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And, the equity markets are certainly a more challenging environment. The venture capitalists we look at to fund our deals are certainly tightening down, there's no question about that. What is not happening, is those marginal deals that would have gotten funded a number of years ago, when things were better, are not making it.

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Incubating LA's Biotech Future, With Richard Koffler, Greenwings Biomedical

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It consisted of what today would be called an accelerator, which involves sprinkling a few dollars and coaching on other people. Three years ago, I started the first of three companies in a portfolio out of the UCLA health system, VAL9000. Do you provide funding for companies? It was a failure.

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