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JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront’s Base As you probably know we are based in Santa Monica and as my partner Greg Bettinelli coined, we’re #LongLA. Overall we write about $100 million of investment checks every year. And anybody who works with us of course knows Kerry Bennett who runs marketing and our CFO Dana Kibler.

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Funding Venture Capital Santa Monica Invest 287

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. Of course unsolicited spam has very low open rates and is filtered by the major providers. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. PHONE CALLS.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

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APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. And of course we had, TheMan. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276