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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. From BBM's web site: media RSS - extensions to RSS subscription format to support time based media, enclosures, copyrights and other meta-data needed for media. By definition need redundancy. Everything else is closed.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about what makes L.A.s My fund was an early investor in Overture. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. startup scene so hot.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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Within 2 years I was getting 400,000 views / month and had been voted the 2nd most respected VC in the country by an independent survey of entrepreneurs, The Funded and sentiment analysis. I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. accessibility. authenticity.

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The Entrepreneur Thesis

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In 2006, Steven Dietz, a partner at my firm, GRP Partners, had given me $500,000 in a seed in convertible debt when I started my second company, Koral. GRP Partners had also funded my first company. I had initially called them wondering if they’d fund my third venture. So what is my thesis?