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Nuan Zhang is a venture capitalist with a diverse background in the technology and investment sectors. Nuan is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, and providing strategic guidance to portfolio companies. She works closely with founders to help them scale their businesses and achieve sustainable growth.

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We discuss the new tariffs imposed by the US government, including a tariff on steel and aluminum products from all countries, as well as additional tariffs on imports from China and a partial suspension of tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico. The experts, Ed Lebow and Colin Cox from the law firm Haynes and Boone, provide an overview of how tariffs work, who pays them, and the potential impacts on businesses and consumers. They also discuss the retaliatory tariffs imposed by other countries in response to the US actions, the challenges around determining product origins, and the strategies companies can use to navigate the new tariff landscape. #tariff

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Neil Wertlieb is the former General Counsel and a retired partner from Milbank LLP, a leading international law firm, where he worked for over two decades, from 1995 to 2016 (as Partner) and from 2022 to 2024 (as the firm’s first-ever General Counsel). Based in Milbank’s Los Angeles office, Mr. Wertlieb’s legal practice focused on business transactions, primarily acquisitions, securities offerings and restructurings. Mr. Wertlieb is an Adjunct Professor at UCLA School of Law, where (since 2002) he teaches a transaction skills course of his own design, which includes deal-making, negotiation, contract drafting and ethics. Mr. Wertlieb is also Senior Advisor, Milbank@Harvard at Harvard Law School Executive Education, a professional development education program that provides attorneys with immersive week-long programs to build leadership and business skills. The Milbank@Harvard curriculum includes intensive, interactive courses on finance and accounting, leadership and team management, strategy, marketing, negotiations and macroeconomics. Mr. Wertlieb is also a Visiting Lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law, where he teaches transaction skills. He has also taught similar courses at USC Gould School of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law. For more information about Mr. Wertlieb’s transaction skills course, click here. https://wertlieblaw.com/about/

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In the latest episode of the “10,000 Startups Podcast,” host Roger Royse delves into the phenomenon of “DExit,” referring to the trend of companies relocating their incorporation from Delaware to other states, primarily Nevada, Texas, and Wyoming.

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In this episode we discuss VC trends and expectations of 2025 and a discussion of the micro VC.

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Haynes Boone Associates Kayla Cristales and Luke Nguyen discuss the FDA’s recently issued Final Rule changing the Agency’s longstanding enforcement policy on Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs).