But when I’m looking to invest the dollars that my Limited Partners have entrusted my firm with I’m going with my view. This return won’t be enough for me to justify for me partners.”  I 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.  GRP I was going to save this post for a while but the Patzer Problem meme has forced my hand. I

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists. One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. For this morning's interview, we thought we'd try something different, and put together a virtual panel of venture capitalists to give us a few tips on pitching your company.

Zag said it has promoted Bernie Brenner to Executive Vice President in charge of the firm's consumer initiatives, named David Pributsky as VP of Partner development. Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!; The firm is backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Capital One Auto Santa Monica-based Zag, a venture-backed developer of online car buying software, said this morning that it has made a a