Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. I’ll still work with Kara managing the next few funds, but I’ve already been pushing for our firm to do more to diversify our activities and this will allow me to focus on some of that.

Venture Capital 361

Venture Capital Startup Invest CitySearch 361

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. They decided early to only book very high quality vendors so they build a system that could pull in Yelp & CitySearch reviews and they set the standard that it had to be highly rated. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep!

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire GRP Partners 359

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

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.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

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MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I meet with Bay Area entrepreneurs all the time and am actively looking to make investments there. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. Each of these companies exited for more than $500 million and several north of $1 billion.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

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JANUARY 16, 2012

It’s just a part of your ongoing activities as a founder. Our biggest returns were outside Silicon Valley: Overture (LA), CitySearch (LA), BillMeLater (Baltimore), Ulta (Chicago), Envestnet (Chicago), HDI (Las Vegas), PF Changs (Arizona), TrueCar (LA). You need to create a sense of competition. Always be fund raising.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366