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Los Angeles. We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. I believe you can attract people to relocate to Los Angeles but it’s likely that they’ll come from locations other than Northern California. TechCoast Angels backed GreenDot should be a major IPO this year.
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. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. LA should be LA.”
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He has done fairly well, and is now an angel and startup CEO himself. John is not as actively involved in managing startups, but has been a very very active angel--I think he's invested in something like 30 companies as an angel. Mike has multiple startups at any one time--right now I think he has three going on.
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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.
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