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26 Articles match "Angel","GRP Partners"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Los Angeles. People Never say never – GRP Partners is actually looking very closely at a company in its A round that is raising a large sum of money. I’m my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). LA I believe you can attract people to relocate to Los Angeles but it’s likely that they’ll come from locations other than People either love it our hate it. All All the stereotypes and caricatures are overblown. And
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
My job doesn’t involve the daily grind of customer complaints, product outages, business partner / channel problems, hiring / firing, etc. I I get to network with angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, etc. I I still like spending time with our teams – at GRP Partners we have a great team – but I don’t have large numbers of people to be responsible for. If One of the questions I’m most often asked is, “what’s it like being a VC?” 8221; I’ve been a VC for nearly 3 years now. Since
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Friday, March 5, 2010
I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here . Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. I’m The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite. It I’m a huge supporter of his initiative to help end this practice.
It also attracted some big names from the Bay Area. I
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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. We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch.
It Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs,. It
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about what makes L.A.s RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...
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Monday, February 9, 2009
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.
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Monday, January 18, 2010
GRP Partners ' Mark Suster attended Jason Calacanis' new LA-based Open Angel Forum and shares his perspective with critique of the Tech Coast Angels . Link to Mark's blog .
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
He wanted to raise angel money. If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself?
He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful . I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
An opportunity like that is usually one in a million but with the Perfect Pitch Conference taking place in Los Angeles, it’s now a very real possibility.
Mark Suster – Partner – GRP Partners
Cal Cap Partners
Sir Richard Branson is known for being a successful entrepreneur. Ten minutes alone with the guy could probably change your life if you used it correctly.
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Monday, February 2, 2009
The Tech Coast Angels is gearing up for its annual Fast Pitch event, which lets entrepreneurs tune their “elevator pitch” and present to a panel of venture capitalists and angels, later this month. The group has Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Richard Yen of Saban Ventures , Michael Rotgin of Shelter Capital Partners , and Richard Wolpert of the Mail Room Fund this year, and is now taking applications to pitch . I’ve pointed to it before, but Frank Peters has a good archive of one of the last winners — Leads360 — on his podcast web site.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
My dear friend Debbie Landa, supreme queen of DealMaker Media is hosting another kick ass event in Los Angeles, and…
VC Outlook 2009: If You Need Funding You’re Fuc%ed ( or are you ) - Candid Talks with VCs in Los Angeles
Nate Redmond , Partner, Rustic Canyon Ventures
I’M GIVING AWAY A TICKET TO THE EVENT (keep reading below).
DECEMBER 2, 2008
Roundtable
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Neil Patel – Angel Investor, Co-founder of Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics
Mark Suster – GRP Partners, venture capital. The word went out today that Twiistup is now accepting applications for their coveted show off spots. There are a total of 10 slots available for innovative startups to showcase their products at this one of a kind tech event .
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