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OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. Often these jobs aren’t even publicized.&#. Well, I know 3-4 VC jobs that are publicly available.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In Los Angeles the wins of Overture, Applied Semantics, MySpace, LowerMyBills, PriceGrabber, LegalZoom and the like have produced a large number of angels who are helping the next generation of LA entrepreneurs get started and succeed. And they have much more experience to do it. Maker Studios. Savings.com.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Note: Company headquarters is in Los Angeles with major R&D also happening in Northern Virginia. I became impressed with Meredith’s maturity, willingness to learn and lack of fear in taking on the enormous challenge of leading a company as ambitious as uBeam. I am inspired by her ambitions and plans. Upfront Ventures'

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MARCH 18, 2010

There is no cost but you must physically be based in or move to Los Angeles for the 6 months of the program. We want to get more people from outside of Los Angeles to spend time with our companies. Full press release with more details is here. We will be selecting 10 startup companies to participate.

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MARCH 24, 2014

This investment started with Dana Settle (Greycroft) and I each putting in $750,000 into a young company doing less than $1 million in sales and has blossomed into one of the fastest growing companies in Los Angeles if not the entire country.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. https://medium.com/media/d9fa90bfcfd8c4a9fdce54b16c47e2e8/href In addition to all the great companies being created here another often overlooked feature of Los Angeles is just how many great VC funds have been formed here in the past decade.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

We then spent much of 2013 proving out the merchant model in one city – Los Angeles. We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. We built “book it now” functionality in LA and then San Francisco.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

I think that’s in part due to market conditions being favorable to venture capital and in part it’s due to the significant uptick in Los Angeles as a major tech hub in the US. Whereas the first two funds I was involved in helping raise each took more than a year this fund was less than 6 months.

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JULY 6, 2016

People of Korean descent in Los Angeles are amongst the most entrepreneurial people I know — in technology but also in garments, fashion, food and so forth. Many are no doubt trying to change this culture.

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

We funded about $2 million, which allowed a full team in Finland to be recruited for building the app and an international management team led from Los Angeles. The results? Massive success after just one week of launching that has continued into the third week (this week) with their first property.

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MARCH 3, 2018

He told the story of the young artist, Ramiro Gomez who was born in San Bernardino, near Los Angeles. From Los Angeles. She was recently graduated from Cal State, Los Angeles and works at USC. Jessica is also from Los Angeles. Susana also grew up in Los Angeles.

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JUNE 24, 2014

We’ve already done a couple at General Assembly Los Angeles, if you’d like to attend in the future – stay updated by following here. Amit is amongst the best liked and most admired tech professional in Los Angeles and has a network that extends nationwide.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Does it surprise you that the fastest-growing “unicorn” was launched in Los Angeles and not San Francisco? It’s obvious that in some markets they will be useable 365 days / year and in others it might be just 9–10 months but the footprint of where scooters will work (and is already working) is much broader than you’d initially think.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

So he put up half the money to bring movie theaters to inner-city Los Angeles and showed that he could deliver profitable chains. Magic spoke about how when he left basketball he wanted to bring businesses to African American communities that were lacking in basic services. He sold for a huge gain.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Maynard Webb) and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti. The point is … people have perceptions of Los Angeles formed by the history of this town and the fact that we are the capital of content and sun. We also had many senior studio executives and leaders. Maker Studios. FullScreen. Great engineering teams, all.

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JUNE 22, 2021

For Upfront, it’s about Los Angeles. And again, just like in enterprise sales, this is all about differentiation ?—?what what makes you different and complimentary to all the other funds in their portfolio? What’s your unique selling proposition? We invest 40% of our dollars in Southern California firms?—?and

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APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “Top deal maker in Los Angeles… Continue reading on Medium »

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MAY 27, 2013

In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. Oh, and did I mention: Roger – NYC, Rob/Rory – NorCal, Nick/Chris – London & me – Los Angeles. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure.

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MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

But for now … Every year we run a big VC, LP & Tech Summit in Los Angeles (this year downtown) to showcase the best of our community and invite others from around the country. And what’s up with this crazy new blog design? Well … more on that next week. I will tell more.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). Hulu is the leading player for streaming television. Frankly, I’m surprised Netflix doesn’t buy Hulu.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. years there has been an initiative in Los Angeles called Launchpad LA. He previously co-founded Charlie , a Los Angeles based media company and interactive agency. For the past 2.5

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. Getting suppliers to accept terms that they said they never normally agree, getting accepted to speak on a panel when the conference organizer initially said “no,&# getting people to moonlight for you until you have the cash to bring them on board.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. how to build an initial sales organization. how to market our products and company. how to evolve our management team.

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JULY 23, 2016

This continues to solidify Los Angeles’ place as a major player in the global tech ecosystem and while any one success doesn’t define a city — the number of high-profile startups and exits has definitely increased. Congratulation. Onward and upward.

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JULY 24, 2012

At GRP Partners we’re all in on Los Angeles having written about $35 million in early-stage venture capital investments in this market alone in the past six months. And I’m delighted to see a bold move by Cooley in getting behind Los Angeles as well. Congratulations to all those involved.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people.

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

They know this model of YouTube production & distribution better than anybody else that I’ve met in my 5 years in Los Angeles. And I’m excited to say that we’ve poached a major technologist from Silicon Valley who will move down to Los Angeles join as CTO in January. More on this soon.

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MARCH 23, 2015

We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Taking it from an investor perspective (not me, angels) I think it’s totally unfair to see early angels invest, take more risk, help you get to the next level through both sweat & money, and then pay a higher price because the round had a convertible note with no cap.

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MARCH 12, 2013

He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Historically we were near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and throughout the 1990s and early 2000s this was fine since there was not strong locus in LA with some great deals in Pasadena, downtown, San Fernando Valley as well as on the Westside in Santa Monica. We also believe it’s important to be strong pillars of our community.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Throughout the first year we made many fixes and saw our revenue base in these markets accelerate so we felt we were ready to attack Los Angeles, amongst the most important storage markets in the country. We used our refined playbooks for LA and figured this time we knew how to launch a market.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There’s a long history in Los Angeles and Hollywood of technology enabling new ways to tell stories … We’ve created a really interesting technology platform that has inspired creators to do things in a completely different way. ”

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Los Angeles' I wanted to rub it in but it’s hard not to love RGIII. He has a lovely family – Joy and Zion – who are also active members of the LA community. Please help me welcome him to our firm.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. On why you should be an entrepreneur, “A lot of people do what they have to do.

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