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VCs, celebrities, and athletes are writing a new LA story to bring women’s soccer to the city

TechCrunch LA

Those conversations and trips to watch the National team play a series of friendly games ahead of the 2019 World Cup led to talk of bringing an expansion team to Los Angeles, according to Nortman. “Around that time Natalie started saying to me ‘Let’s go find a team’,” said Nortman.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m This translates to about 12–15 investments.

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Planning 500,000 charging points for EVs by 2025, Shell becomes the latest company swept up in EV charging boom

TechCrunch LA

billion— a huge win for the company’s privately held owner, the power development and investment company LS Power. “The writing is on the wall and the investors have to take the time. Back in 2019 the company acquired the Los Angeles-based company Greenlots , an EV charging developer.

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

TechCrunch LA

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 8, 2019. — Balaji S. ”

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5 Ways Writing a Book Will Kick-Start Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works?

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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If you get into the best deals it has never been a better time to be a VC or LP, and the best have developed strategies to capture more value Given that the best deals are pushing out their exit dates it means that many firms aren’t seeing as quick of liquidity as they might have 20 years ago. But there are clear pro’s and con’s.