CitySearch Entrepreneur Santa Monica 
socalTECH
JULY 16, 2013
It started around a year ago, as I was driving back from Santa Monica from an event. I thought, it''s great what is going on in Santa Monica, but it''s very hard to be part of the same community, given how far apart the cities are. We want to create businesses and engage with entrepreneurs. We were at ground zero.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. I like to repeat the mantra, “necessity is the mother of all invention,&# meaning that because investors have this expectation you find entrepreneurs that focus on nearer term monetization.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2014
A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. I wish every city could have an 1871.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.
SoCal Delicious
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
I then moved to CitySearch, IAC, and then eveentually moved to The Search Agency with David Hughes. I have been in Santa Monica, in technology, since 199, and over all those years, I've developed some great relationships. What is Dentistry.com? So, that's my story. That said, I'm a veteran technology guy here in SoCal.
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