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APRIL 17, 2012

ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC. I know that I call them often to co-invest. North of the 101].

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of ‘swing-for-the-fences’ investment at early stages – and neither does your town. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles.

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MARCH 17, 2010

LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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