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Wheels Enters Last Mile Transportation Fray With $37M

socalTECH

The startup, which offers up dockless, electric bicycles to customers, said the funding round came from Tenaya Capital, Bullpen Capital, Crosscut Capital, 3L Capital, Naval Ravikant, and a number of strategic investors from the entertainment and sports communities.

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

Both Sides of the Table

” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business. We of course have Naval to thank for helping to innovate in our industry.

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Both Sides of the Table

He’s thoughtful about markets, investors, products and is always very well reasoned in his arguments. We had a very sensible debate on the topic on VentureHacks sponsored by Nivi and including Naval Ravikant. Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. West Coast”).

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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing

Both Sides of the Table

To be crystal clear – I think AngelList is awesome and I have NEVER heard Nivi or Naval ever reveal or discuss pricing information. Have you looked at competition? How well financed is the competition? What is their market traction? So is the market really colluding? It’s called competition.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

Both Sides of the Table

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. Then I saw this post from Nivi at AngelList so I thought I would invite Naval & him on to the show to talk about how AngelList works.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry.