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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures

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We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. Tell us about the new fund? It''s good news for us, but it''s also good news for Los Angeles technology. READ MORE>>.

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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

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Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. The TechCrunch team was judicious in its determination of qualifiers, insisting that the accelerators be, “fixed-term, cohort-based, with educational and mentorship components, culminating in a public pitch or demo day.”

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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In July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace parent company eUniverse for $580 M, of which approximately $327 M was the valuation of MySpace. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users.

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