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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com). GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. My own background, is I built and sold two software-as-a-service companies.

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The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

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You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Writing a book will be fun. I started working with David when I was an entrepreneur and he was an associate with a VC firmed called … wait for it … GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures)! You REALLY know.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

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Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. I would put my firm, GRP Partners in with the group working with teams in different ways. There are also others. But obviously I’m biased.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ). Agile development is much more customer driven and focused on getting useful software in the hands of consumers quickly and iterating on that with them to make it better.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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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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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I remember in the late 90′s trying to charge fair prices for software when my well-financed competitors were giving things away for free. So at GRP Partners we’re very active now. I believe that. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs.

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