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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. When companies get ready to add scale it’s important to bring in industry experts who bring real-world experiences from world-class companies that you aren’t inventing things for the first time.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 26, 2015

The Professor''s argument impacted me viscerally, as I have a number of students from various nationalities in my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial classes. Can you imagine being a recent immigrant in this Professor''s class and being told that you have almost no chance of bettering your social status?!

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

Tucker Kain: In 2012, when the current ownership group bought the Dodgers, the group they pulled together was pretty heavily investment focused. How was experience finding companies for this first class of startups? How did the idea to launch your own accelerator come about? We want to life all boats, and grow the space.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. You can fly first class and not talk to fellow passengers. So in 2012 you’ll see me a lot more often at the Launchpad LA offices. Happy 2012 to all of you. Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness (Tiger Moms & the true definition of success).

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Here is the Wikipedia definition of a bubble.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Either way, the gridlock that is now the US congress will prevent any real economic responses and it seems likely that this political malaise will last beyond the 2012 election as the Republicans look to make big gains in the 2010 mid-term elections.

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