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

Mucker Lab

In the same vein, because not as many entrepreneurs in Los Angeles worked at companies like Google or Facebook, a lot of them have not really gotten the training they need to properly communicate requirements, run a scrum, or conduct A/B testing. The top tier funds see almost all of the best deals.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Making good (development) investments requires all the deal flow generation and evaluation work of a professional investor; the alternative is poor selection. After releasing the MVP, we work on a lean scrum to iterate based on early data/feedback until we start to see signs of product-market fit.