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JULY 13, 2009

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'll even write a half a million check. That as unhealthy.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! And if they can monetize their follower base then they have an incentive to grow their base, Tweet more, engage more and write better quality Tweets. Everybody gains.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

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MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. You have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!, You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo!

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