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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

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

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. Mark Suster Partner GRP Partners He's an ex-Salesforce.com employee. First company built on top of EMC, Unix servers, field sales to large clients.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). Do you have sales productivity software? I chose for my blog to be independent of my firm, GRP Partners.

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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. GRP Partners has created more than a dozen of these so as a firm we know something about creating big companies.