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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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Second, we are announcing officially that we are moving our offices from Century City to Santa Monica. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. Well, the venture capital industry has changed a lot in the past 20 years … and we have too.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. I kind of think LA is just LA and doesn’t need some clever marketing term. ” That always stuck with me.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Los Angeles. And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them.

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