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

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In a world where we have blogs, social media, sites like TheFunded, and a variety of other sources where entrepreneurs can figure out what other people think about VCs, being open and transparent matters. How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow? Mark Suster: It''s our best source of deal flow.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media.

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Why You Should Enlist a Business Mentor, Or Be One

Startup Professionals Musings

Shared social media is the new networking. In the words of an ancient Buddhist proverb, “If you light a lamp for someone, it will also brighten your own path.” A key value of mentoring is getting access to each other’s networks, who can be new business partners or new mentors.

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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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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). Entrepreneurs should also use social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding.

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