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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

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I’ve become fond of saying “if I had a dollar for every person who told me just how much they loooooved Kara Nortman, I’d have a 10x fund.” She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5

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Moriarty Joins Triton Media Group Board

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Sean Moriarty , formerly the CEO of Ticketmaster, and currently Entrepreneur in Residence for venture capital firm Mayfield Fund, has joined the board of Los Angeles-based Triton Media Group. Moriarty has also served at Citysearch, and has been on the boards of Points.com and iLike.

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Goldstar Adds Coffin, Moriarty, Harris As Advisors

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Moriarty is the former President and CEO of Ticketmaster, and is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mayfield Fund, and was also an executive at Citysearch, and board member at Points.com and iLike.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. We like to be able to see the concept.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. Of course if you’re already known you could put your name or location on your fund name. North of the 101].

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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So I began talking to him about joining the fund. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Community builders. Open & transparent. Approachable. And Greg was a perfect match for all of these.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. For some, it’s a nightmare.

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