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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. We've invested in a fantastic company called Mobiclip, which provides high throughput video with low battery consumption on mobile devices.

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

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That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. 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.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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It’s no big surprise that I spend a larger portion of my time in LA working on: disruption of television, performance-based marketing, games & mobile. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. We have all of the 2nd-time entrepreneurs from Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, etc. How do we make that happen?