Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. Some practical examples. When I joined GRP Partners in 2007 I was offered a role as a General Partner. People who have raised money from them.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

However, one, longtime local fund-- GRP Partners --appears to have found the right formula for venture success, and has just raised a brand new, $200 million fund. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. Tell us about the new fund? Mark Suster: It''s a $200M fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment. We already have one example, which is Ad.ly. Short summary of my posts: 1.

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JUNE 8, 2010

I’m going to save that for a future blog post. Example: great discussions about recruiting tips, similar problems with Amazon AWS, ad agencies stretching payments, etc. My action item – I will soon announce the GRP Partners CEO Summit. Nail it before you scale it” – I missed who said this but I love this quote.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. Sam in the perfect example. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog.

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JUNE 21, 2014

Here’s just one example post featuring the wisdom I learned from Stuart about negotiations. I started working with David when I was an entrepreneur and he was an associate with a VC firmed called … wait for it … GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures)! David is also frequently an inspiration for a story on my blog.

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