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MARCH 12, 2013

GRP’s biggest winners over the years have not only come from LA (Overture, CitySearch, TrueCar) but from Chicago (Envestnet, Ulta), Las Vegas (HDI), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack), London (LastMinute.com) and other locations. So we talked about his joining. I made some reference calls. They were effusive.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Yet in LA we have hugely successful entrepreneurs who have built big companies like Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, TicketMaster.com, LowerMyBills, Commission Junction, eHarmony and on and on. I thought through the steps: Get a class of interesting companies. I hear it all the time. Get VCs to agree to join.

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APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others.

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ). In my mind, Randy Newman said it best, “ I love LA &# – idyllic weather, a mélange of cultures and big industry.

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