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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures

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We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. It''s good news for us, but it''s also good news for Los Angeles technology. Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong.

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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin

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Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis. We found that aggregation technology was very keyword driven, and relevancy was not that strong.

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

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Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. That network effect is a subtle but has a powerful effect with all this new technology.