Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2020
She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. So What Does All This Mean? Does This Mean You’re Retiring? I’m only 52!
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 12, 2013
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. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. So we talked about his joining.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. I then moved to CitySearch, IAC, and then eveentually moved to The Search Agency with David Hughes. If you are an entrepreneur inside and organization, you have to understand that organization, and what makes it tick, and how it operates.
SoCal Delicious
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
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. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Post navigation.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. Come join us.
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