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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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Twitter Takes Aim At Ad.ly, Bans In-Stream Ads

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Twitter said that third party ad networks are not necessarily looking to preserve the "unique user experience" of the site, and also said it came because it is looking to use its "Promoted tweets" to preserve the "integrity and relevance" of user timelines. is backed by GRP Partners, Greycroft Ventures, and LowerMyBills founder Matt Coffin.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product.

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Interview with Sam Teller, LaunchpadLA

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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. No one wants to be perceived as a slacker.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. SimpleGeo provides sites with LBS databases and tool sets (such as SpotRank ), while also helping sites warehouse and analyze the large volumes of generated LBS data; all services and data accessible through simple APIs. Competition: McAfee , Symantec.

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A Conversation with Ben Satterfield, Burstly

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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. No one knew what was going on then, this was before iOS 3, and he contracted me to make the site and help create the brand.

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What’s it Like Being a VC?

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I get to do a deep dive on their business model, product roadmap and competitive positioning. I still like spending time with our teams – at GRP Partners we have a great team – but I don’t have large numbers of people to be responsible for.