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Wheels, Started By Founders of Wag, Comes To LA

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Wheels , a new startup from the co-founders of Wag , announced this morning that the company has started offering up access to its electric powered, two wheel bicycles in Los Angeles, as it expands from its base in San Diego. The startup is led by Wag co-founders and brothers Jonathan and Josh Viner. 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. 2020 was a crash course in leadership and we saw many great entrepreneurs step up and rise to the challenge. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021?

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. 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. Community builders.

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

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During that time, his tenure as a young engineer at HP caused him to vow that when he started a company, he would create a culture that treated all employees with respect and humility. In 1978, George teamed up with 20-year old Stacy Peralta, a world champion skateboarder. Powell: To experiment, I needed about 10 molds.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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We've made over 30 investments in Southern California, and that's just in Redpoint, and doesn't include all of the investment we made as Brentwood Venture Capital since the late 70's. Can you talk about how Redpoint splits up investment -- do certain partners handle certain industries, or is it more geographic? That's part one.

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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. 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). And this is just the start.

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