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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning... Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Everything else is closed. Mark Suster Partner GRP Partners He's an ex-Salesforce.com employee. Building on top of Amazon or Google - cost base is so much lower. I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum . The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. But there are plenty of partners and successful entrepreneurs who don’t have MBAs. This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons .” 8221;
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). At Think of the Amazon affiliate program where you’re paid if you help Amazon sell books (I think on average Amazon pays about 7% of sales). This One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising” company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation
This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream” and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
I myself recently covered the topic when I spoke about why GRP Partners invested in Ad.ly .
GRP Partners invested in GoTo.com which rebranded as Overture. Should affiliate links to Amazon be acceptable in a blog but not in Twitter or Facebook? The topic of whether in-stream advertising has heated up. I just read well written pieces on the topic by Ross Kimbarovsky , Robert Scoble , Paul Carr and the NY Times .
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Previously, he was a partner with JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), the private-equity arm of JPMorgan Chase. He joined JPMP from Flatiron Partners, which he launched1996 with partner, Fred Wilson. Prior to founding Flatiron, Jerry was a founding partner at CMG@Ventures L.P. (”@Ventures”). This interview is full of stories of successful entrepreneurs because Jerry Colonna has invested in or worked with some of the best of them.
As I listened to Jerry tell stories of the people he worked with, I kept noticing that the founders who made it big were building companies
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