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Study Finds Tech is Number One Industry for Workplace Drinking

Tech.Co

Now, a new study has pulled tech drinking culture back into the spotlight. The tech world, the study found, is the single industry most likely to allow or sponsor alcohol consumption in the workplace. Specifically, a little over half (53%) of the tech industry was found by the study to include alcohol at the team bonding events.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market). And reset they must.

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Reflections on 2018: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

socalTECH

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. Lexus studied customers in the US and predicted that car buyers had just had it with clunky US cars. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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What I Learned In 2015: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

socalTECH

All this week, we're featuring reflections on the past year from movers and shakers in the community. Just this year alone we have studied 3,400 North American enterprise software companies including many in SoCal and dug in deep on over 200 of these companies. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year?

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Interview with Brad Stewart, Fair

socalTECH

As we studied that Gen 1 and Gen 2 of the company, a few things popped out at us. There are lots of transaction costs which occur both on acquisition of customers and on returns, and those costs are real, and must be considered in how we price the products. That really made us an extended rental car company, if you think about it.

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Donut Media's Matt Levin On Creating A New Car Enthusiast Brand

socalTECH

I had seen how things were working over there, and went through a number of acquisition. Ben is a commercial director, who has been in post production and production for the past seventeen years. I think there was one study which said Millenials are not interested in buying cars recently. He was perfect to go into this.

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Entrepreneuriship Is Best Learned Experientially

InfoChachkie

However, irrespective of how many business books you read, you cannot “study” your way to entrepreneurial proficiency. I went on to explain that the key to entrepreneurial learning is to identify the most relevant and impactful experiential sources and to leverage them in the most efficient manner. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.