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iChange Finds $500K More

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MacFarlane is the former CEO of InsiderPages, which he sold to Citysearch in 2007. Co-founders of the site include Rich Rygg, who was VP of GeoCities, and GM of AOL's Digital City Los Angeles and Brad King, co-founder of Net Effect (acquired by Ask Jeeves), as well as psychologist Jay Wagener. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Venture Capital. And then the world changed. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. We have invested $17.3

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