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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. Panels: Developer, Arts/Education; Green, Good and Government. Silicon Beach Fest takes place June 19-22, 2013 in Santa Monica. Friday Night parties at Cross Campus and ROC.

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Techclusive: Launchpad LA Opens Their Doors To TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

On top of the mentorship that these budding startup CEOs receive, Launchpad LA has begun putting together a series of educational meetings and discussions designed to share experiences between serial entrepreneurs and newer CEOs. On August 11, 2010 at 5:30pm PST we present " TechStars Meets Launchpad LA" Live.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. The problem is that to really fix education you’d need to reform incentives and pay in addition to better teacher training.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. Mark Suster – GRP Partners Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Investors include Ron Conway, Ashton Kutcher, and Brian Solis.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ). As such, why didn’t you bring outside investors into your latest round?

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