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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

Over time, though, military spending wound down and many large aerospace and military companies left Southern California. My partner Erik Rannala has had a similar experience, having worked as a VC at Harrison Metal before moving down to LA to co-found our seed stage venture firm.

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This Week in VC with Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

Can you please expand on your post about distributed teams? It was a verbal discussion on my post on distributed teams. - Yes, that was the value that we actually returned as opposed to the value of Ulta. Great exit. - I spoke about the need of the CEO, CTO and head of Products to be in the same location.