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JUNE 27, 2013

However, one, longtime local fund-- GRP Partners --appears to have found the right formula for venture success, and has just raised a brand new, $200 million fund. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. Tell us about the new fund? Mark Suster: It''s a $200M fund.

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MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. Sam in the perfect example. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog.

Startup 372

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment. We already have one example, which is Ad.ly. Short summary of my posts: 1.

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JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Here’s just one example post featuring the wisdom I learned from Stuart about negotiations. Writing a book will be fun. David is also frequently an inspiration for a story on my blog. You REALLY know.

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MARCH 1, 2010

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.

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JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer. So with DataSift I’m doubling down.

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