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. This coming Monday, October 26, the Perfect Pitch 2009 Entrepreneur and Investor Conference is taking place at the Ritz Carlton. Some notable members of the LA tech community will be speaking, moderating, or presenting at the conference and we’d like 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.

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 .  Tags: Conferences Startups Angel Investin 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. I’ve pointed to it before, but Frank Peters has a good archive of one of the last

Mark Suster – GRP Partners, venture capital. Unlike traditional conferences, Twiistup mixes it up with tunes, video, beverages, swag and the unexpected. 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 .

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.  But then I went to the Parnassus Group’s Twitter 140 conference run by Steve Broback and Brett Schulte .  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. 

Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner.  For When I go to conference I never sit in the meeting section – I always cruise the halls meeting people.  My My job doesn’t involve the daily grind of customer complaints, product outages, business partner / channel problems, hiring / firing, etc.  I 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

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.  But we all accept it because  we know that it is the norm for conferences.  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 . 

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.

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 You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales.  It’s Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All

Funnily enough I was at the Twiistup conference yesterday and I was chatting with an engineer whom I really like and he told me that he enjoyed reading this series but that now he wasn’t sure he was ready to see me because he wasn’t sure that he scored highly enough on all attributes.  So She asked if she could fly the next day to meet with me and my partners.  I 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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