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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. 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

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. They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. Hi 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.

He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. recently read the book eBoys about the founding of Benchmark Capital and the founding of eBay.  In Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture.  That’s 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.

Mark Suster – Partner – GRP Partners August Capital Cal Cap Partners Rustic Canyon 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. An opportunity like that is usually one in a million but with the

The round came from USAA, and included Capricorn Investment Group, LLC, GRP Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. Zag also provides online car buying software for a number of AAA motor clubs, Overstock.com, Capital One Auto Finance, American Express, and Administaff. Tags: venture software capital automotiv Santa Monica-based Zag has finally revealed the total invested in its latest, strategic round of funding, saying Thursday that it raised $37.4M. USAA is an affinity group which is using Zag's automotive configuration software and services.

in a funding from GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and Great Pacific Capital. Tags: ringrevenue venture capital call telephone affiliate advertisin Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , which is developing technology for pay-per-call, telephone affiliate advertising, has raised $3.5M The firm is headed by former Callwave CFO Jason Spievak.

The round came from GRP Partners. GRP's Mark Suster sits on the firm's board. "Ad.ly venture capital twitte Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , which is developing an in-stream, advertising platform for Twitter, has raised $500,000 in a funding round. Ad.ly has performed very well," Suster told socalTECH, saying that the

He's currently a Partner with GRP Partners . Before And just one quick aside…I remember traveling through Germany, and I didn’t want to spend money on hotels, because we had pledged to build a capital-efficient company, so I used to sleep in Neu-Isenburg, which is south of Frankfurt, in a pizzeria.  They If you've been to Mixergy before and I've earned your trust, then don't waste your time reading anything I wrote on this post. Just listen to my interview with Mark Suster and get fired up by his stories and his lessons for entrepreneurs.