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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. The top five tournaments for “StarCraft 2″ in the month of June 2012 had combined prize-pools of over $150,000.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. We both wanted to build a practice that would make Los Angeles proud but where we would travel tirelessly to other locations to make investments in the best entrepreneurs wherever they were.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena].

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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As you have more exits in your startup community and more second-time entrepreneurs the growth of a local startup community becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. Venture Capital. I was instantly intrigued.

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