Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

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). Let me not bury the lede. It’s more convenient for both sides.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

And the fact that we’ve all worked for a decade with Dana Kibler who is our long-time CFO and now helping run Investment Operations & Platform Services we have a truly senior & killer internal team. We brought Ryan Lissack down from San Francisco to become Maker’s CTO and the rest is history.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. Here’s why. I know I do.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ). We wanted investment partners that understood performance marketing and what it was like to be an entrepreneur from having done it before themselves.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

More than 100 developers on 13 teams hacked from Thursday – Saturday to pitch amazing ideas to our team of a dozen CTO judges, at the SBF HQ Cross Campus. Developers ranged from a 18 year old whiz kid to a Yale team who flew in from Yale to participate. Photo by TechZulu). Student Pitch Fest.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. The magic that is Silicon Valley is that every tech entrepreneur who has made a bit of money chooses to “recycle&# it by investing back into the startup community.

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