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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. Digital Content Track sponsored by Demand Media, featuring speakers from Machinima, Maker Studios, Fullscreen, ZEFR and more. Saturday Night Closing Party by Media Temple.

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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures

socalTECH

However, one, longtime local fund-- GRP Partners --appears to have found the right formula for venture success, and has just raised a brand new, $200 million fund. How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow? If I write about online education, I''ll see 25 online education plans.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. – and provide a way to facilitate a match between vendor and person needing service. .&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. Pretty cool.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). But more broadly I believe that you’ll see a lot more tools for helping marketers more effectively run, monitor and manage social media campaigns.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. It filed for an IPO on August 6th.

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