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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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Universal In Licensing Deal With Hark

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Hark is based in Seattle but also is active in Los Angeles in business development; ElNaggar might be familiar to Los Angeles entrepreneurs for his short stint sourcing venture deals for Redpoint Ventures in Los Angeles. Hark negotiated the deal with Universal Partnerships & Licensing. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2020: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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In a year filled with challenging news, we were fortunate (across Archer Venture Capital and Liquid Stock) to have some high quality exits in our portfolio, but moreover to see how our amazing entrepreneurs successfully managed the disruption caused by COVID-19. His current active investments include: Sovrn, Zyp Media, and QMerit.

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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. I'm not suggesting that it's content, I'm suggesting it is the journey and the experience related to consumer activity. I think, also, that we'll clearly benefit from companies like Demand Media, and the newly minted set of angels and entrepreneurs coming out of that.

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

Jason Nazar

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. Entrepreneurs that start companies in LA are often focused on revenue and business models. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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