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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. We wanted our name to reflect both the changes we’ve made and how we plan to operate for the next 20 years. What’s up with that? So what changed? And there’s much more of this to come.

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Entrepreneur With Street Smarts Not Learned In Business School

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by Ron Coury, author of “ Tenacity: A Vegas Businessman Survives Brooklyn, the Marines, Corruption and Cancer to Achieve the American Dream: A True Life Story “ If I had to give myself a title or occupation description after four decades of business activity in Las Vegas, I’d call myself an observational entrepreneur, a “niche finder.”

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8 Online Businesses Disrupting Their Industry

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Operating solely through an app, the company claims to be ‘a reinvention of hotel booking for the mobile era’. Operating in over 200 cities, the company connects customers to drivers via their app, often offering a cheaper rate. Housesimple.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). billion IPO), HealthDataInsights (Las Vegas, $400 million) as well as LA (Maker Studios $1 billion, TrueCar $1.3 billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25

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Ideas Aren’t Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Team building, fund raising, operations — these are all essential and they all contribute to the innovation puzzle. In what ways might we …provide a truly family oriented destination in Las Vegas? Ideas need development and implementation — get that done and you’ve still got to run the business.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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It took us three months to sign up the first 100 customers when we launched (we now do that every 20 minutes) and when we hit 100 customers, we went to Las Vegas with the whole team to celebrate. As an engineer at Boeing, I had no idea how the company I worked for really operated.

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An HR World Of Haves And Have-Nots

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by China Gorman, Managing Director leading American operations for UNLEASH. UNLEASH America will be welcoming back North America’s industry insiders, entrepreneurs and innovators in Las Vegas, May 15-16, 2018 at the Aria Resort & Casino.

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