Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I want our associate to have empathy for the customers we serve — our portfolio companies. It’s lost salary for a period of time. What about VC’s and Risk? It was May.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

We spoke with Christopher Webb, the firm's CEO, to hear about how ChowNow's goal is to make mobile, social orders something any restaurant can afford and implement--and how a new $3M funding round from GRP Partners, Double M Capital, Daher Capital, Karlin Ventures, and Velos Partners is helping it to deliver on its mission.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Social Enterprise: Hub LA.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. 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.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. We spend a lot of time listening to our customers and working with them to build the right solutions.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

If I’m interested I get to spend more time with them, if I’m not I don’t have to – A few companies per month come in that have fascinating business ideas that warrant my spending more time trying to understand their people, company, technology and market. I get paid to network – I love meeting people.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). It should lead to higher conversion rates and happier customers. We can technology enable offline advertising. The longer term is even more promising. What else is out there?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. StructuredBlogging.org is an initiative to create blogging tool plugins which support not only microformats, but other technologies that will provide a comprehensive set of standards for producing microcontent. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# customers who paid for services often get burned. So at GRP Partners we’re very active now. In the past I have publicly commented on some specific companies that seemed over valued.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. An advanced online application platform to promote your reels, customize presentations and accelerate your project collaboration. Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. An advanced online application platform to promote your reels, customize presentations and accelerate your project collaboration. Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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 ). Optimization technology is not new.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

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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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about what makes L.A.s is a lot more of: Show me how youre going to commercialize this technology, I want to understand how it makes money. Well, that technology came from an L.A. startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. Register Now!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. 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. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly. But we do have great technology developers.

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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. It is a must have if you’re building a technology product these days. It is the town hall. It is “ Speakers’ Corner.”

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