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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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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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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

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Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm. What is total assets under management? -

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment). Just because the valuation in absolute terms isn’t a big difference does not mean that people aren’t paying higher than intrinsic value for these investments.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Burstly (www.burstly.com) announced that it had raised $1.8M What is Burstly?

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

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The problem with VC Seed Funding – Chris is right to raise the issue with entrepreneurs because there have been instances where large VC funds have set up seed programs where the investments have been used as “options.&# There are many problems with this. invested in the seed round they have more inside knowledge than I do.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. My angel investing strategy vs Joshua Schachter - Gabriel Weinberg , May 18, 2010 Joshua Schacter has a great AMA thread on HN about angel investing. But startups can shoot themselves in the foot when founders use consultants at the wrong time or in the wrong way.

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