The State of Venture Capital and the Internet

Mark Suster

Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Most recently Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com (NASDAQ: CRM) following its acquisition of Koral,where Mark was Founder and CEO. Prior to Koral, Mark was Founder and CEO of BuildOnline, the largest independent global content collaboration company focused... → Learn More

Thursday, October 20th, 2011
vc market on docstoc

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at his Startup BlogBothSidesoftheTable

Later today I’ll be giving a keynote at the VCJ Venture Alpha conference here in San Francisco. I was asked to speak about the topic of “what is going on in the venture capital world and what is the next big thing after social networking?”

Tough topic but I have some views. I thought you might enjoy reading the presentation before even others see it!  It is pretty self explanatory. You can view here or go to DocStoc to download it (no, I’m not an investor, it’s just a great repository for docs).


Future of VC / Internet

Next week I promised to follow up on PE Hub, the main journal VCs read about our industry, with a detail description of some specifics that are happening. Watch out for that – I will have a lot more details.

I’ve listed some great VCs in the presentation. I’ve left off many great ones. It isn’t intentional. You can’t cover everybody in a prezzo. Please don’t read anything into that.

And all feedback welcome! See you in the comments.