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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners. Great companies are comprised of great individual point people or functional leaders.

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The Best Entrepreneurs Are Hyper Competitive & Hate Losing

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She asked if she could fly the next day to meet with me and my partners. I didn’t understand why she wanted to do this if she already had lined up such A-list investors but it was in a segment where GRP Partners is very strong so I it sort of made sense to me. We rallied the troops to do a 6-8pm session the next day.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

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We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.