Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. link] There’s no doubt in my mind that “LA is having a moment” and both VCs and LPs realize it. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion. Boston, Finland and Paris).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

If you’re working with early-stage companies you need to be spending quality time with them which means you need to be nearby. What about if you went even more ambitious and build an entire infrastructure like Tony Hsieh is doing in Las Vegas. If you’re super hot / successful you can resist. Would more come?

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. It can help you be a strong athlete, which makes you an attractive early-stage player.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. 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.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 21, 2018

Most people believe that early stage companies should take risks aggressively because there is less to lose and much more to gain with each risky bet or decision. Either way, as in a Las Vegas casino, the numbers of times risks are taken directly affect the average outcome over time. Your average is 100%.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

GRP’s biggest winners over the years have not only come from LA (Overture, CitySearch, TrueCar) but from Chicago (Envestnet, Ulta), Las Vegas (HDI), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack), London (LastMinute.com) and other locations. And largely synergistic with what we do – which is awesome.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

If you’re technical and a savvy inventor, you could design a product that helps marijuana user process or ingest their medicine—think about all the fancy vape pens that have been coming out, or the rosin presses that easily extract solvent-free oil from bud or trim. Do this, and you will develop a loyal consumer base.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Meet early. Approaching Dennis Crowley to figure out how to get access to his earliest investor, Bryce Roberts ? Not so much. There is much controversy on this topic.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

This can have an enormous benefit to kick-starting a local startup community as it will ensure many more early-stage at-bats happen locally. These companies employ 417 people at an average wage of $71,000, and their rate of job creation is accelerating as they move into their growth stage.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Have you ever watched a professional blackjack player in Las Vegas? They also know that their ability to predict at the early stages which of two ventures will succeed is poor. by Edward D. Hess, coauthor of “ The Physics of Business Growth: Mindsets, System, and Processes “. First, they pick the right table.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2011

Most people believe that early stage companies should take risks aggressively because there is less to lose and much more to gain with each risky bet or decision. Either way, as in a Las Vegas casino, the numbers of times risks are taken directly affect the average outcome over time. Your average is 100%.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

And that’s really important for an early stage start-up to be able to move as fast as possible etc., And of course there’s the usual pros and cons right? Like with more people who are not taking salary, you can literally do twice as much. But you also have to agree on things and this and that.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

There are a few reasons for that: (1) He has no intention of ever moving into them, (2) he lives in Las Vegas, not Phoenix, and (3) he owns six other houses--and a half share of seven more--in the greater Phoenix area. Yes, I do believe that late stage valuations are out of whack but remain excited about early stage opportunities.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

Coffee of Columbia University Law School that: “[Early stage] issuers are in effect flying on a ‘wing and a prayer,’ selling hope more than substance. As noted above, the hearing focused on fraud concerns, including testimony from Professor John C.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

are going to add this story to our blog via our IT guy at [link] we have a audience in las vegas that will read your article. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. November 21, 2009 6:58 PM.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. Many of these Tweets will have information about the user’s location that makes increases the value of the data enormously.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is well capitalized Silicon Valley has traditionally received a disproportionate share of private, early-stage funding compared to other geographies given its density of firms focused on these types of investments and the number of start-ups and private companies in the region.

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