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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

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Leveraging mobile application and online platform. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Howard is now CEO of Gamzee, a new social game company building games for the new Facebook mobile platform. Community Sponsors.

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De-risk Your Startup By Doing It Again: The Joy Of Getting The Band Back Together

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The team is applying its ad network and ad serving insights to the emerging world of mobile advertising. Serial Team mentors will make fewer mistakes than a comparable adVenture led by inexperienced people who are learning on the job. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Alma mater, Overture: sold to Yahoo. Meredith Publishing.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Howard is now CEO of Gamzee, a new social game company building games for the new Facebook mobile platform. Community Sponsors.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly I’d personally heard of Startup Weekend back when it got started in 2007 out in Boulder but only attended my first Startup Weekend in late 2009.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

SoCal Delicious

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