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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). We made lots of assertions about what features we thought people would want, how to price them and how to overcome the objections that people have to managing data in the cloud.

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APRIL 1, 2014

More Americans buy cars through TrueCar (Upfront is a large investor through my partner Steven Dietz ) than any other place by a long shot. The entire team had a hell of a couple of years and I lived this through the stress I saw my partner Steven going through with the team. I can’t imagine buying a car any other way.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It’s clear that in the future movies & TV will be delivered to our homes from the cloud. If you haven’t followed this check out what’s happened with Netflix’s biggest content partner who has withdrawn from the service. Indeed for many this is already the case. Very few companies ever do this.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

Kind of like a law firm (or VC firm) with four partners but shortened to just two, people dropped off his second two words. Having a web product abstracts the text message from the device and makes it a truly cloud service. I loved the idea of “mobile first” but something always bothered me.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2014

I quit a very well paid job at Accenture with very little time remaining before making partner and took a risk of having no job security at all. Back then there was no “cloud” so we had to plow money into hardware, software licenses and web hosting. Why did I join as a partner in a VC fund on that salary?

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JANUARY 12, 2014

But relying upon SEO / SEM too much and not building a product and brand that is valued in its own right leaves you reliant upon that channel partner to not change the rules of marketing through their channel. Path has been criticized for uploading address books to the cloud and then using your address book to market to your users.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

each with partners as the lead. .” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza. Where are Things Headed for VC in 2031?

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

I suppose all this has done is shine a light on what so many women have known their whole lives and with this cloud lifted I feel unable to shut up.  —  @msuster 5/ Men say, "She only got hired because they needed a female partner." That’s my starting point. Do you find yourself having the same thought?

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MAY 4, 2010

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. AppDynamics.

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JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

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MAY 14, 2015

You feel very unique when you pitch your business yet three weeks later when you follow up on your VC pitches each partner has probably seen 15-20 more companies in that time and while she remembers you, she can’t quite, exactly remember what was unique about you. Unless you nailed the narrative. Narrative at its finest.

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MAY 5, 2011

I know it’s not single-handed as he has both fantastic partners at Foundry Group and many other community leaders. But as I look at the GRP Partners returns we’ve made a lot of money investing in companies in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Arizona and Seattle. My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

I personally felt that we would have been better served putting more resource into building out cloud services, for example, to make Salesforce more scalable in terms of our user base. I believe it can actually build a big Rabbit Business and it’s strategy seems perfectly suited to reaching this customer base through partners.

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. 5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech. Rumored to be appox.

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APRIL 17, 2010

They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners. We’re excited to welcome the CEO Michael Agustin to Los Angeles.

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APRIL 12, 2018

I should also say a huge thank you to my partner Greg Bettinelli, as Ring was amongst the first deals he ever funded and along with GOAT, thredUP and some of the other great deals he’s led for us?—?his He did all of these and more. his insights and track record are looking stellar.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Our largest and most important partner had called us within 24 hours grumbling. Had we written the blog post the storm clouds would have gathered for longer. And the Twitter effect would have been a direct bullseye for our target customers and partners. He took out some words in his article that we objected to. He published.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. I would put my firm, GRP Partners in with the group working with teams in different ways. Maybe Micro VCs will get larger and emulate a multiple-partner strategy like True Ventures or First Round Capital. There are also others.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + Create market opportunities for everybody else to partner with Google or Boxee. I discussed these issues in the video. I choose open.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

.&# You’ll be told by the people you want to recruit that they’re not sure about joining, by a landlord that you’ll need a year’s deposit or by a potential business development partner that they’re too busy to work with you, “come back in 6 months.&#. My company was relatively unknown.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. I introduced my partners, we spent weeks with the team and felt good rapport. This article was originally published on TechCrunch.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. Let me explain. Processing. Think about it. Management.

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