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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). It’s nice to finally not be in stealth mode! Let me not bury the lede. When he left I called him immediately. So there you have it.

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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing

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It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. If you’re a seed fund that raised money from limited partners your fiduciary responsibility is to “make a buck.&# But I bet his broader point was to tone down the rhetoric and stop with inside baseball. This also happens with VCs. Information flows.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners. Gyroscope is in double-dog secret stealth mode right now so I’ll focus more on the entrepreneur.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why.

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Why it’s Critical That you Reference Check Your VC

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As in real life – those that rush into marriage often find out what their partner is really like after the fact. How do you then reference check your VC to be sure that you’ve chosen a good firm and partner? And in each firm you have partners who are different. But what about once you have a term sheet?

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). It’s still in stealth but plans to make announcements soon. I’m spending a lot of time looking at investments in this category and have already completed one investment in the space.