Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. In 2016 I finally cracked SnapChat with the launch of Discovery. It’s hard to be discovered on SnapChat right now so I occasionally tweet my SnapChat add handle: https://www.snapchat.com/add/msuster. Frankly, it took me 2 years to get my head around SnapChat. Stay young.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

My company Putta Crown On It has the opportunity to have a place to do classes, promotional shoots and more,” Sykes told TechCrunch via email. When asked about their reaction to the damning Triller investigation, Collab Crew emailed TechCrunch a statement , but declined to disclose if or how its members were impacted.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). I hate to put us into the pre-seed and seed area, so I am saying literally, first institutional capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. We are experiencing a frenetic time. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. Year in, year out.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2015

Or SnapChat won’t compete and ephemeral video them. I saw my partner Kara Nortman say she was speaking on a VC panel for women. I watched for 5-10 minutes while I did email. You may know that for years I filmed This Week in VC with Jason Calacanis. I was at my desk working but I clicked. I loved that interaction.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Thus begins Snapchat and why you don’t get it. Snapchat will be used for both like the Internet (and TV) are. I just need to break you of the idea that Snapchat is for one thing – it is not. But since Snapchat uses the frequency above your hearing range it’s nearly impossible to “get” without help.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

And I want to blame Clinton for using that damn email server but of course I know if it weren’t that it would just have been something else. And for the occasional person who Tweets or comments, “Mark, I follow you to hear about tech or venture capital — not politics. Keep your mouth shut.” (yes, There is even a block button.

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