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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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Santa Monica is the place where the highest concentration of early-stage startups are created if you consider also the contiguous geography of Venice Beach. 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. What’s up with that?

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

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The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., Las Vegas, NV. Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming. Let’s take a look at some of the best U.S. Austin, TX. Sound good?

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming. After the economy crashed in 2008, Las Vegas was pushed to reinvent itself in order to survive.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming. After the economy crashed in 2008, Las Vegas was pushed to reinvent itself in order to survive.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

What’s the name of the company? Dan: The name of the company is Member Desk. 10 a month, $50 a month, whatever, and then they get the user name and password to access their membership site; Then they get access to all the content that you allow them access to based on how long they’ve been a member. Jason: Hey.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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David Cohen deserves much credit for building TechStars into an internationally recognized brand name for innovation. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. It is possible and he’s showing people that.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

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These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Dallas (North) is the ninth largest city and was recently named the number one commercial real estate market in the US. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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