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MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. By definition, you read blogs.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ).

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JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). So at GRP Partners we’re very active now.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly And if they can monetize their follower base then they have an incentive to grow their base, Tweet more, engage more and write better quality Tweets. He’s product obsessed, visionary, inspirational and contagious to be around. I used to.

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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 ). And this part of the product is entirely free to use. I like that.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Partners provided products and services including: Uber, Here on Biz, ParkMe, Simply Petals, Triptrotting, Bloodhound, Planana, Pop-Up Pantry, EventSorbet, ROC, Startup Car, Pulsoviral, TrueCar, PopChips, ONE Coconut water, Gamer Food, Zevia. & #celebrity to pull off anything! RT @urlgrl @DigitalLA had an amazing time at #SBF.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it. million in costs over 18 months to launch our products. I plan to write about this phenomenon soon. I would love to see Tara follow up with blog posts on: why she believes this is the case & what we can do about it.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I’m still planning to write some in depth pieces on the topic but I thought, “given that this is about how video will consume the Internet over the next 5 years, what better way to exemplify this than with a 10-minute video.” And where GRP Partners , the VC firm in which I’m a partner, is based.

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JUNE 29, 2011

I would put my firm, GRP Partners in with the group working with teams in different ways. Many LPs want to write checks of $10 million or $25 million because they themselves have billions of dollars to manage. And the more “small checks&# they write, the more VC managers they have to manage. There are also others.

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MAY 5, 2011

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. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. No Dave S. = How do we make that happen?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. While nobody has yet “cracked the code&# on production quality video over the Internet (YouTube won UGC video), there is a lot of innovation happening in LA from places like Eqal, Deca.TV, ThisWeekIn, Machinima & Maker Studios.

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MARCH 1, 2010

I’m not talk about the age old debate amongst investors whether you back entrepreneurs, markets or products (or as people like to hedge – product / market fit). In 2006, Steven Dietz, a partner at my firm, GRP Partners, had given me $500,000 in a seed in convertible debt when I started my second company, Koral.

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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 better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. What does that mean?

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