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. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

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. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. Server and client in Java. I would tend to agree.

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Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. Also, lost of people leaving comments on websites and having a dialog with other users.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

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. Okay, thats AdSense.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50