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Flywheel Expands Into Los Angeles, Ramps Up Taxi vs. Rideshare Battle

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Flywheel develops a mobile app which lets users hail local taxi companies, track locations, and pay with their smartphone, and says it has launched its service across Los Angeles, starting with Hermosa Beach, Long Beach, San Fernando Valley, and Pasadena.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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Intellectual Property and Its Impact on Entrepreneurship

SoCal Tech Calendar

IEEE San Fernando Valley Section and Entrepreneurs Consortium of Southern California. Steve Chen will present an overview of the patent process with a focus on IP issues related to the different types of ARRA funded vehicles, and some leads on patenting green technology. See https://www.123signup.com/event?id=jmphg.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

Both Sides of the Table

When you’re on Fund I or Fund II it is often a founding team that all started together, knew each other before and went through the trenches together to get a fund raised. Also, many of our deals were in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco or London. It was more hedge fund than venture capital.

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

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We manufacturer our equipment here in the San Fernando Valley, but we're also shipping our equipment to Asia and Europe. We understand you have some funding? Neal Roche: I think some of the biggest challenges are that when you fund a startup, the assumption is that you are focusing markets close to home.

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. And it’s not just the movement from Palo Alto to San Francisco. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. Deal of the week. Megan Rose Dickey.