Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2013
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?
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. As an engineer at Boeing, I had no idea how the company I worked for really operated.
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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. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. Community builders.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 20, 2017
Generally, when someone thinks about types of cannabis businesses, dispensaries and grow operations usually come to mind. But the cannabis industry is much more than just grow operations and dispensaries. When starting a business in any industry, having a unique idea that fills an unmet need is crucial to becoming a success.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 8, 2012
Have you ever watched a professional blackjack player in Las Vegas? Growth takes people into unchartered waters, and the processes used for daily operational excellence do not work. They also know that their ability to predict at the early stages which of two ventures will succeed is poor. by Edward D.
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. The business environment is much more complex today, and the hopeful entrepreneur need to understand more of the environment in which they will operate. November 21, 2009 6:58 PM. blog internships.
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. And Stuart Lander is also a partner and runs all operations and platform teams. Boston, Finland and Paris).
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