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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

A group of friends at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) got together to form a league and also had several members of our client at the time Southern California Gas Company. I began playing Fantasy Football in 1993 before it was even a big thing.

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MARCH 15, 2010

I generally try not to stalk people I don’t know when they announce they’re in town, but as a fellow VC (and a partner in Southern California’s largest fund), I felt we had a legitimate reason to connect. One day Brad Tweeted he was going to be in LA with his dad.

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Social Network Networking Southern California Term Sheet 347

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA).

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Technical Review IPO Southern California Venture Capital 241

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California. And I’ve just completed my first seed deal of Ad.ly ($500k) with another exciting deal I hope to announce within 30 days. What gives? Am I a hypocrite?

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Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

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AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I [.].

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Southern California Asia California Venture Capital 188

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Floodgate / Information Arbitrage do “big data&# amongst other things), or Founder Collective (consumer & ad-tech knowledge of people like Chris Dixon) or geography (Founder Collective is in Boston / NY, Rincon is the best early-stage in Southern California).

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Southern California Angel Investor Early Stage Silicon Valley 267

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JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Southern California Angel Investor 293

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies. When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

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MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ).

Mobile 282

Mobile Management Southern California Application Development 282

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

And companies that have a beautiful product or idea, somewhere between a prototype (only it it’s really cool) and a MVP. Thomas says the maximum size of an angel round he’ll invest in is $2.5M.

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Angel Investor Cofounder Southern California .Net 302

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Seriously, it kinda stinks) it is a legitimate funding source for Southern California entrepreneurs and has produced successes including GreenDot and MyShape. While TCA has had it’s challenges (and updating your website certainly wouldn’t hurt your image, guys.

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Southern California Los Angeles Angel Investor Early Stage 254

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AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms.

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Asia Southern California China Japan 188

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JULY 15, 2010

Crosscut is a seed-stage fund based in Southern California that has been in some hot local deals like ShoeDazzle (Rick discusses how they get in when it was a super competitive deal – great story), DocStoc, GumGum and others. I talk in the video about the economics of venture capital and how we make money.

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Southern California Venture Capital Seed Stage Angel Investor 210

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JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. We can be blunt but we believe that builds healthier relationships. We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience.

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Leadership Southern California San Diego Hiring 150

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JANUARY 16, 2012

We’re the largest fund in Southern California. There’s 80 firms there – have your pick. But if you’re looking for something differentiated in your portfolio I think we’d be a great fit. We were found to be the 5th most consistently performing fund in the country over the past 20 years by Prequin.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

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APRIL 17, 2010

Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. They’re applying the knowledge of what they’ve learned there to create compelling game-like experiences for driving consumers to retail sales.

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Los Angeles Stealth Securities and Exchange Commission Southern California 276

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AUGUST 15, 2010

I’m a partner at the largest VC fund in Southern California. Appendix: Practice what I preach. I have my standard line. Many have heard it too often. It goes like this, “My name is Mark Suster. But before this I built and sold two software companies. The last one was to Salesforce.com where I was VP Product Management.”

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Elevator Pitch Southern California Media Hosting 315

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MARCH 17, 2010

The community has matured – The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies. So if you’re out to create content businesses there is no better time and no better place than here. A great team from MySpace has created Gravity.

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Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC.

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Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

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APRIL 17, 2012

I thought about some Southern California angle, because this is where > 50% of my investments are. For many companies having “functional names” that encapsulate your key characteristics in the title can be powerful. And for me. When I chose a name for my blog, I spent days thinking through what I wanted to represent.

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Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

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JULY 6, 2015

But we do 50% of our deals in Southern California from San Diego to Santa Barbara and we think that’s part of what makes us special. We do a lot of deals in San Francisco. And we have national deals in New York, DC and Chicago. We even do some international deals in London or Finland.

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Sales Silicon Valley Las Vegas Southern California 150