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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong. acquired Overture for $1.63 Structural.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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billion IPO), HealthDataInsights (Las Vegas, $400 million) as well as LA (Maker Studios $1 billion, TrueCar $1.3 And then of course each venture firm must be careful not to add partners unless they know the chemistry will work with all other partners as our team unit and cohesiveness are so important.

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Interview with Tara Weingarten, VroomGirls

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In whatever career you are in, just in the course of your business people see your work, and see if you're good or not at what you do. You've also got a deal with TrueCar, correct? We did a bunch of research into services like TrueCar, and how they presented things, played with those services, and so on.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. We raised $280 million. It goes without saying that the shortening in time also was due to performance.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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GRP’s biggest winners over the years have not only come from LA (Overture, CitySearch, TrueCar) but from Chicago (Envestnet, Ulta), Las Vegas (HDI), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack), London (LastMinute.com) and other locations.

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The Magic of the Irish – Dublin’s Resurgence on the Global Tech Scene

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The roster of speakers was vast and just off of the of my head it included the founders of DropBox, Box, WordPress, EverNote, TrueCar, HootSuite, Charity Water, DataSift, Indiegogo, Huddle, oDesk (and many others) plus the usual cast of characters such as Robert Scoble, Gary Vaynerchuk, Dave McClure, Ben Huh, Shak, Shervin and many others.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. one of the best in industry that I've seen is how Scott Painter measures his business at TrueCar. You will likely have multiple sets of metrics you keep depending on the company’s stage, one’s function in the company and level.

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