Competition Examples GRP Partners Sales 
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 29, 2010
Competitiveness - One attribute that I believe most VCs look for in entrepreneurs is competitiveness. If you stumble on to a really good idea believe me it will get competitive really quickly. I know that people who aren’t competitive always find competitive people slightly distasteful. Simple example.
socalTECH
JUNE 20, 2012
We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners. We don't get excited about derivative businesses, like yet another daily deal site, or another niche flash sales site. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica. At this stage, too, companies re small.
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socalTECH
JUNE 19, 2013
Burstly is headed by Evan Rifkin, and backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective. The way we go about that is different than the competition. For example, if you''re just a major crash on an iPad in Japan. Burstly is located in Santa Monica. What is Burstly?
SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. Tech support is sales. they have purchasing intent ).*. But the rates are high for a reason. they released a new 2.0
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2010
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 ). I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Competition: McAfee , Symantec.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Let me use LA as an example. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley?
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