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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

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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.

Startup 304

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. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ). But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so. And of course you have Hollywood.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313