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JUNE 27, 2013

But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. Some of our most successful deals have been in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Baltimore and London. We have long wanted to move but wanted to wait for the perfect space.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Note: Company headquarters is in Los Angeles with major R&D also happening in Northern Virginia. I became impressed with Meredith’s maturity, willingness to learn and lack of fear in taking on the enormous challenge of leading a company as ambitious as uBeam. I am inspired by her ambitions and plans. Upfront Ventures'

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. Often these jobs aren’t even publicized.&#. Well, I know 3-4 VC jobs that are publicly available.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In Los Angeles, I have easy access to a bunch of potential strategic technical advisors through the LA CTO Forum. Who's doing that for your CTO? Where Do I Find a Technical Advisor. You are looking for part-time people in these rolls so you often are finding people who already are employed somewhere else.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In Los Angeles the wins of Overture, Applied Semantics, MySpace, LowerMyBills, PriceGrabber, LegalZoom and the like have produced a large number of angels who are helping the next generation of LA entrepreneurs get started and succeed. And they have much more experience to do it. Maker Studios. Savings.com.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. Getting suppliers to accept terms that they said they never normally agree, getting accepted to speak on a panel when the conference organizer initially said “no,&# getting people to moonlight for you until you have the cash to bring them on board.

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MARCH 6, 2017

He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected. 43% of all goods arriving into American ports come through LA and Long Beach ports in Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

And it’s not lost on me that the majority of these people live and work in Los Angeles. I think that creative talent is going to play a major role in the next wave of the Internet. And I find that exciting. Where I call home. And where GRP Partners , the VC firm in which I’m a partner, is based.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

40% of our deals are done in Los Angeles but 100% of our deals leverage the LA networks we have built for 25 years. I think most people know we’re HQ’d in LA (Santa Monica to be exact) but we invest nationally and internationally. We have a team of 7 in San Francisco (a counter bet on our belief that the Bay Area is an amazing place.)

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 18, 2012

What I had not realized is that this had translated into escalating salaries for CTOs and VP Engineering. I was expecting that over the past few years, the pressure on VCs maybe had translated into lower salaries.

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APRIL 20, 2017

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 If you have a storage need in one of these cities please consider checking out MakeSpace.

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MARCH 24, 2014

This investment started with Dana Settle (Greycroft) and I each putting in $750,000 into a young company doing less than $1 million in sales and has blossomed into one of the fastest growing companies in Los Angeles if not the entire country.

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MAY 5, 2011

In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. But every time I talk with senior executives a the big studios or talent agencies I tell the same story, “You know that your industry is being disrupted.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

I think that’s in part due to market conditions being favorable to venture capital and in part it’s due to the significant uptick in Los Angeles as a major tech hub in the US. Whereas the first two funds I was involved in helping raise each took more than a year this fund was less than 6 months.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2018

Ironically, it would take a Los Angeles VC, Mark Suster at Upfront Ventures and the Inclusion Clause to lead the change in venture capital culture. Culture gets set both explicitly with rules and implicitly by example.

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MAY 27, 2013

In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. Oh, and did I mention: Roger – NYC, Rob/Rory – NorCal, Nick/Chris – London & me – Los Angeles. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

We then spent much of 2013 proving out the merchant model in one city – Los Angeles. We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. We built “book it now” functionality in LA and then San Francisco.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure.

Technical Review 417

Technical Review South Korea San Francisco Software Review 417

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

We funded about $2 million, which allowed a full team in Finland to be recruited for building the app and an international management team led from Los Angeles. The results? Massive success after just one week of launching that has continued into the third week (this week) with their first property.

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MAY 19, 2013

On Tuesday Los Angeles will elect a new mayor. I’d love to see a mayor in Los Angeles who does, too. In 2010 the City of Los Angeles started trying to crack down on tax receipts of Internet startups allocating them to the least favorable gross-receipts tax bracket taking up their city tax by 500%.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

One of my big disappointments at GRP has been our office space in Los Angeles. A few years ago I started a mentorship organization in Los Angeles called Launchpad LA now run by the uber talented Sam Teller. Cordon yourself off and you get dragged into a lot fewer problem-solving sessions for other people. Launchpad LA.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. On why you should be an entrepreneur, “A lot of people do what they have to do.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. What I didn''t discuss was how you should go about selecting the right company. They''ve been in talks with some consulting companies, but don''t quite the know the criteria for evaluating them and things like references(and where to get them).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). Hulu is the leading player for streaming television. Frankly, I’m surprised Netflix doesn’t buy Hulu.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

We are hugely appreciative of their successes because it’s helped grow technology talent in Los Angeles and some time down the line we know the “Snapchat Mafia” will be armed with millions of dollars and fund and create startups all over LA. If you swing at every pitch you’ll end up with a lot more losers.

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IPO Los Angeles Technical Review Silicon Valley 214

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Here in Los Angeles, it's the LA CTO Forum - a private, invite only group of 250+. Towards this, I believe you need to seek out continuous learning opportunities. If you are the senior most development leader, often there are organizations locally that you can get into where you can meet peers. The brain power of this group is amazing.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Both companies were in Los Angeles. They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. Not bad, hey? And they had another recent $100+ million exit of Savings.com. He penned a great piece on the LA tech community here in Forbes.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

You should begin asking at networking events and people you know in the startup world. For me, I'd use LinkedIn. The challenge is that LinkedIn is not that great with finding people who were at early-stage startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Taking it from an investor perspective (not me, angels) I think it’s totally unfair to see early angels invest, take more risk, help you get to the next level through both sweat & money, and then pay a higher price because the round had a convertible note with no cap.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

Although there are several locations, even as far from NYC’s Soho as Los Angeles and San Francisco, the WeWork’s flagship is still the most impressive, offering an overwhelmingly collaborative community for startups, especially media and fashion companies.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. how to build an initial sales organization. how to market our products and company. how to evolve our management team.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

I then flew from London to Los Angeles to meet with the partners of GRP. I jumped on a plane and immediately flew to New York for just 1 day to meet with the Chief Investment Officer of ETF. I presented a revised plan that I had created in 24 hours with the help of my team. In the morning I flew home.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Meghdad Abbaszadegan is an adviser with Coplex , a Los Angeles- and Phoenix-based startup studio focused on truly collaborative product design, development and growth strategy. While you might not succeed in business by swinging a racket, a winning mentality on the court can help inspire a sound strategy in the boardroom.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Celina Kirchner is a full-stack attorney at Michelman & Robinson, LLP (M&R), a national law firm with offices in Los Angeles, Orange County (California), San Francisco, Chicago and New York. My hope is that the answer is you. She’s based in L.A.,

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2020

Similarly, Los Angeles just announced a PPP to address sustainable transportation issues. You won’t get anywhere without formalizing efforts toward innovation, and collaborations can be the best way to do that. Collaborations enforce timelines, budget, and talent — investments that are necessary to achieve a goal.

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JULY 6, 2016

People of Korean descent in Los Angeles are amongst the most entrepreneurial people I know — in technology but also in garments, fashion, food and so forth. Many are no doubt trying to change this culture.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf.

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