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HealthDataInsights Sells for $400 Million. Big Win for GRP Partners.

Both Sides of the Table

That’s why I’m proud to announce today that HealthDataInsights (founded by Victor Chaltiel), where GRP Partners was a 30% owner, has been acquired for $400 million. My partner & mentor Yves Sisteron ( You can get to know Yves in this YouTube video ) has been active at HDI for years (as has our CFO, Dana Kibler ).

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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It’s About Women Running Startups

Steve Blank

I had a better one when I came back from New York. I was in New York last week teaching my annual 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad class at the Columbia Business School. New York Startups. Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. What’s up with that?

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

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. Now they are partners. They have a can-do attitude that is infectious. I’d love even 0.5%

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. Do you want to help out?”

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The Future of Government: Hayward & the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the interesting dynamics I have seen in local government is that innovation is often driven out of or by IT departments or by the implementation of new technologies. It’s similar with private sector or non-profit partners. 6 in San Francisco. I also think politics can derail these efforts by city governments.