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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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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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We both wanted to build a practice that would make Los Angeles proud but where we would travel tirelessly to other locations to make investments in the best entrepreneurs wherever they were. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. So we talked about his joining.

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TCVN Workshop LA

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Targeting entrepreneurs, this workshop will provide real world examples on how to: Execute business planning, develop a complete business plan and secure venture funding. See [link] (more).

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TCVN Workshop Orange County

SoCal Tech Calendar

Targeting entrepreneurs, this workshop will provide real world examples on how to: Execute business planning, develop a complete business plan and secure venture funding. See [link] (more).

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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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Some entrepreneurs might be surprised you didn't want to sit on a beach in Bali for the rest of your life�talk more about that? 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. He sold it to ArtistDirect for $42.5M

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

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I am always on the lookout for inspiring entrepreneurs who have leveraged their passions into healthy livelihoods as they serve as instructive role models for my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. To go into production, I needed to build hundreds of molds and invest in a cost effective quantity of wheels.

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