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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. So if you’re out to create content businesses there is no better time and no better place than here. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Launchpad LA SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice Startup Advice. (my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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SEO, Social Media, Sponsorship and On-line Advertising

SoCal Tech Calendar

Speakers include: David Karnstedt, Efficient Frontier; Kelly Perdew, Rotohog; Brian McCarthy, CitySearch; and Mark Gibbs, Network World. Thursday, July 23, 2009 -- SEO, Social Media, Sponsorship and On-line Advertising. See https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:Join/signupId:10203.

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Interview With Brian McCarthy, Dentistry.com

socalTECH

I then moved to CitySearch, IAC, and then eveentually moved to The Search Agency with David Hughes. So, that's my story. That said, I'm a veteran technology guy here in SoCal. I then came to Futuredontics, when I came up through product, then business development, and operations.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

So the team set out to solve the “chicken or the egg” problem by onboarding > 1,000 high-quality merchants across 50 service categories while going deep in two micro-areas within LA as our test market. We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

socalTECH

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. We'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California. Here in Southern California, we do have a ways to go.

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Catalyzing Innovation In Pasadena, with Innovate Pasadena

socalTECH

In the same way that the technology community is not the same when you''re talking San Francisco versus Palo Alto versus San Jose, Southern California''s technology communities have their own neighborhoods. My own history, is I was here when Overture was doing great things, and Citysearch, Earthlink, and eHarmony were all here.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Make sure to check out Both Sides of the Table !

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