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. It’s the view that I back great entrepreneurs and help them pursue their dreams no matter what.  I This return won’t be enough for me to justify for me partners.”  I I was going to save this post for a while but the Patzer Problem meme has forced my hand. I

He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. 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 run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners. 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.

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners.  I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work.  I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system.  This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons .” 8221;

The first came from the CEO of iScraper telling me that they would not be able to complete the deal – their investor, Apax Partners, had decided not to proceed despite verbal assurances that they would.  But then I got a call from my lead investor (coincidentally it was GRP Partners where I now am a partner) and they told me not to lose confidence.  This is part of my new series on  what makes an entrepreneur successful .  I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.

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My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com).  At We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. 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 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

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 Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created two new generation LA startups (Zag and TrueCar, both backed by GRP Partners). Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All

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.  Think about this – bands and stars helped bring people by the millions to MySpace.  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 . 

I’m not saying I don’t spend time trying to help entrepreneurs that I am not planning to invest it – anyone who knows me can attest to the fact that I do.  But So I spend much time with them and trying to help.  But 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