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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. I first met Ethan in 2005. We like to be able to see the concept.

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Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. And of course Foundry Group is the original masters of this with perfectly organized ambassador trips to Boulder. It creates recycled capital + 2nd-time entrepreneurs … on steroids. LA has the annual Monty Conference.

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We launched Docstore about four or five months ago with a number of premium partners, including LegalZoom, CareerPress, LegalAcreements.com, and others, and now we are opening up the marketplace so that virtually anyone can sell high quality, professional content. It's the eBay of professional documents. A year ago, we were around 3.5

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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