You know Zag, herein town, and more recently our new car investment, TrueCar. We just did a deal with Rincon Ventures on a deal in Santa Barbara, and we're partnering with other firms on deals, and we'd like to see more. You've I'll point to Southern California, and there are lots of firms here--for example, Appfolio in Santa Barbara, which has Klaus Schauzer of GoToMeeting there, there's Mindbody Software in San Luis Obispo doing phenomenally well; you've got some great promising open This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com).

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