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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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We are a technology company, not an ad agency, and we are really just a bunch of nerds who believe we can turn this thing upside down, and let people try those apps out before downloading. I got super, super fortunate that early in my career, I was living with an entrepreneur, Randy Saaf, who was running a company called MediaDefender.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. I own an iPod Touch (not an iPhone – my house in Brentwood gets literally ZERO AT&T bars). Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications. Enter Apple.

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