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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Our investments focus heavily on the financial services industry, digital media, mobile applications & infrastructure, SaaS / Cloud and retail innovation. Our other big wins came from Chicago (Ulta & Envestnet), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack) & LA (TrueCar). And we’re not restricted to territories.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

But some of our largest investments have come from all across the country: BillMeLater (Baltimore, $1 billion eBay), DealerTrack (NYC, $1.3 Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions. billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

It’s how I met Brian Sierakowski from the Greater Baltimore Tech Council who organized an entrepreneur lunch for me when I was passing through town last week. Twitter & Real-Time Information – I think we all now know that Twitter serves up real-time information that is an order of magnitude quicker than traditional media.

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MAY 5, 2011

Every region needs its local media & events. But as I look at the GRP Partners returns we’ve made a lot of money investing in companies in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Arizona and Seattle. Not to mention they have the highest profile VC / blogger Fred Wilson of AVC. It’s an awesome source of regional news.

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JUNE 8, 2014

VCs generally have had an easy time fostering relationships with large ad agencies and media companies given how much our businesses have intersected over the past 20 years. Fred Wilson has done this for the NY startup scene but of course you also have mass media located there. You also need marketing muscle.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. Our biggest returns were outside Silicon Valley: Overture (LA), CitySearch (LA), BillMeLater (Baltimore), Ulta (Chicago), Envestnet (Chicago), HDI (Las Vegas), PF Changs (Arizona), TrueCar (LA). But of course that’s horse puckey.

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AUGUST 14, 2016

Coates grew up in a rough neighborhood of Baltimore (the same streets portrayed by my favorite show of all time, “ The Wire.”) https://medium.com/media/61f7c002efdf477082c2416a9bbc4d7a/href “Between the World and Me” is an angry book but justifiably so. And as a white man in America I felt angry reading it, too.

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