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

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I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. There is Adconian, Intelligent Beauty, LegalZoom, Burstly, ShoeDazzle and so many more I can barely name them all. It’s fucking hard hiring right now.&#.