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Wheels, Started By Founders of Wag, Comes To LA

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The company--which has offices in both LA and San Diego--said it is launching in Venice, Hollywood, Brentwood, West LA, Westwood, Miracle Mile, Mid City and other local LA markets. The startup is led by Wag co-founders and brothers Jonathan and Josh Viner. So far, the company has raised $37M in total funding. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2020: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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Zoom has been a Godsend, and frankly has made our productivity better than it was when we were in the office. Prior to founding Archer, Greg was a partner with Redpoint Ventures for 11 years, which grew out of Greg's original firm, Brentwood Venture Capital. His current active investments include: Sovrn, Zyp Media, and QMerit.

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Reflections on 2016: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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But before you think of moving out of SoCal, our 19th deal also closed in 2016, and this was a growth equity investment in Brentwood based Docupace Technologies. Our twentieth deal was a $15 million growth equity investment in Seattle based software firm BitTitan, currently rated the number one place to work in Seattle.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. On each subsequent meeting I’d learn a little bit more. What will he do with his other 50% time?

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

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To go into production, I needed to build hundreds of molds and invest in a cost effective quantity of wheels. How involved did you get in marketing the products you were creating? I have learned how to persevere, and to build products skaters need and appreciate, even if they don’t know they do at first.

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sales vs marketing

AeA Los Angeles Council

Having been both a marketing & sales executive, I have seen first-hand how silos between these two departments can exist while products (or the sale of services) still "succeed" despite the rivalry. Judy is known as the “Branding Queen” for her work creating strong, effective identities for companies and product lines.

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

Both Sides of the Table

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. Before you let me have it let me say I am a FanBoy of Apple products. I own an iPod Touch (not an iPhone – my house in Brentwood gets literally ZERO AT&T bars). But we need device coverage, right? -

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