SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

I'd also recommend you subscribe to So Cal Tech Central. It brings together events and content for Los Angeles. Who are the people you should meet in the Los Angeles Startup Community to get wired in?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

I'd also recommend you subscribe to So Cal Tech Central. It brings together events and content for Los Angeles. Who are the people you should meet in the Los Angeles Startup Community to get wired in?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. For conference updates, follow @SBFestLA on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook. Silicon Beach Fest takes place June 19-22, 2013 in Santa Monica. Social Media.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. ’ It’s pretty terrible to have to go to conferences… with people who are talking about… stuff that not only do I know nothing about, but I could give two $hits about.” Start Lean.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have a piece from GRP Partners' Mark Suster , who--after watching and judging pitches at last week's Twiistup event--gives some hints and tips about how not to suck at presentations. Most people suck at presenting to big groups.

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Twiistup GRP Partners Tips UCLA 124

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Never say never – GRP Partners is actually looking very closely at a company in its A round that is raising a large sum of money. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales. I’m sure others have, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Conferences. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? I was at the Lobby Conference a few weeks ago in Mexico. Board Meetings. I get sucked up in “Do” mode. Startups Are for Doers.

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Venture Capital Conference Ideas Entrepreneur 400

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

I myself recently covered the topic when I spoke about why GRP Partners invested in Ad.ly. GRP Partners invested in GoTo.com which rebranded as Overture. But we all accept it because we know that it is the norm for conferences. This debate is awfully familiar - This debate is so familiar to me.

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Advertising Technical Review GRP Partners Google 277

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

Ever since I’ve been in LA, the Big-4 accounting world has had one tireless business development professional who has sponsored many entrepreneur events, pushed for his firm (PwC) to be flexible in working with early-stage companies and tirelessly championed LA with his “Shaking the Money Tree” conferences.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. When I go to conference I never sit in the meeting section – I always cruise the halls meeting people. There is less team camaraderie – I really get along with my partners well.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

It’s been my experience that the more focused and intimate events far ‘out-perform’ (however you’d like to characterize it) the mega-conferences. Mark Suster – GRP Partners Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur.

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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. People at the Apple conference were completely in awe. Burstly is located in Santa Monica. What is Burstly? Ben Satterfield: Burstly is the blanket company for three products.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

Funnily enough I was at the Twiistup conference yesterday and I was chatting with an engineer whom I really like and he told me that he enjoyed reading this series but that now he wasn’t sure he was ready to see me because he wasn’t sure that he scored highly enough on all attributes. The list is getting quite long.

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Competition Entrepreneur Startup GRP Partners 296

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly But then I went to the Parnassus Group’s Twitter 140 conference run by Steve Broback and Brett Schulte. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. I believe Twitter will support this.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! Ane more groups are focused on furthering this cause.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Blogging 341

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. But as I look at the GRP Partners returns we’ve made a lot of money investing in companies in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Arizona and Seattle. Marketing Muscle. It’s great to see an initiative like Seattle 2.0

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

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. And in typical Apple still they tend to remain very tight-lipped until the day of their announcement. Or how about Google?

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