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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Second, we are announcing officially that we are moving our offices from Century City to Santa Monica. Why should investors know all the tricks of the trade while first-time entrepreneurs operated at a disadvantage?

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LA Group Launches Effort To Promote Technology Corridor In Los Angeles

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Fellowship Program to connect the city's many new graduates with local businesses and entrepreneurs, and new efforts to help entrepreneurs find resources like accelerators, commercial real estate, and more. The group also said it plans to launch a new program called the Edge.LA

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JasonNation Becomes The LAUNCH Newsletter

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Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com, told his personal email newsletter readers Friday that he has renamed the newsletter from JasonNation, to the LAUNCH Newsletter. Calacanis said in November that his LAUNCH conference will afford startup with the ability to reach investors and launch products to the world.

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Interview with Michael Arrington – Startups Uncensored #23

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Michael is an incredible serial entrepreneur who, in 2008, was listed as one of Time Magazine ‘s most influential people. The event will be happening on December 1, 2011 at The Milken Institute in Santa Monica. Tickets are going fast for this special event – it WILL sell out, so get your tickets soon!

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TZ Presents: ‘Nice Guys’ DO Finish First In Business | Fireside Chat With Greg Cargill

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That work laid the foundation for Greg’s contribution in founding bigMETHOD in 2008, a social media agency that joined BLITZ in 2011. The 44,260-square-foot ROC–Santa Monica location, last occupied by Google, will have more than 200 socially conscious, shared-workspace environments with space for as many as 150 small companies.

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Interview with Todd Jerry, Marmol Radziner

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Many local entrepreneurs might know Todd Jerry , formerly a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners. What was the project in Santa Monica about? Todd Jerry: The City of Santa Monica owns a mobile home park on Stewart Street, called the Mountain View Mobile Home Park. For me, it was a couple of things.

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

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The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs. We''d gone to high school together in Santa Monica, and we were both very entrepreneurial in high school. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one. angeles startup taskus outsourcing phillippines growth bryce maddock entrepreneur'

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