socalTECH
JULY 13, 2009
This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com). GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. I'd like to see the community working together.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners.
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InfoChachkie
JANUARY 18, 2012
Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. Put it out on the Net, see what the reactions are…If you build something that starts to resonate, then you can start to… get into tech blogs and talk to the press and tell everybody what you are doing.”
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart. VC will shrink.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 29, 2009
My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation.
SoCal Delicious
MARCH 1, 2010
Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about what makes L.A.s Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently? startup scene so hot. What makes L.A.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. Mark Suster Partner GRP Partners He's an ex-Salesforce.com employee. Server and client in Java.
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