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GRP's Suster Ranks Among Top In VC Bloggers List

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Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners , has made the top 10 in an annual ranking of venture capitalist bloggers, the only Southern California venture capitalist to make the listing. The venture capital blog ranking was the fourth annual ranking of 149 venture capital, microVC/seed, and growth equity blogs.

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GRP's Suster Ranks Number Two On Most Respected VC List

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Mark Suster of GRP Partners has ranked number two on a list of "Most Respected Venture Capitalists". Suster has gained a significant following since launching into blogging and hosting This Week in Venture Capital, and was also named in a listing of top VC bloggers earlier this month.

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StartupSD: Mark Suster

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He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. Mark is a UCSD graduate and writes one of the best startup blogs on the Internet. Come hear him talk about about SoCal startups, entrepreneurship and the investment scene.

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Mark Suster on Influence and Persuasion

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Noted entrepreneurial blogger and respected Venture Capitalist, Mark Suster , who is also a Partner at GRP Partners, recently published a great post related to influence and persuasion, which is excerpted below: ———————————————-.

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MySpace, Ad.ly Link On In-Stream Advertising

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helps celebrities, musicians, and other social influencers monetize their Twitter and other activity streams with advertising; the firm is backed by GRP Partners, Greycroft Partners, and LowerMyBills' Matt Coffin. squarely into a multi-way intersection of who's who in Southern California's blog and technology world.

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

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Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. The firm just announced that new fund, and a new name, Upfront Ventures (www.upfront.com). Tell us about the new fund?

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. He blogs here and tweets here. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. as a senior vice president of AOL.

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