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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. So we're focused on technology, and financial services.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Current round: $20mm in Series C by Accel Partners (Jim Breyer, board member at Wal-Mart, Dell, and FaceBook), KPCB, and DAG Ventures. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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The Southern California locale benefits from its easy proximity to Silicon Valley, just an hours flight away, as well as from the many universities in the area, including Cal Tech, where Intel founder Gordon Moore went to school. startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. a great place for startups? Lets start with the basics.

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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!

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Mark Suster , GRP Partners. The Wokcano Restaurant Group is a contemporary Asian Restaurant and Lounge venue with six locations currently operating throughout Southern California. Endeavor's partners, advertisers, and publishers will reap the rewards of the company's long-standing industry relationships.