The short version about the author, Mark Suster: Grew up in NorCal Graduate of UCSD (economics) and University of Chicago (MBA) First job: programmer at Accenture Startups: BuildOnline (sold to publicly traded French company) and Koral (sold to Salesforce.com) Now: Partner at GRP Partners, the largest venture capital firm in Southern California Current Investments / Boards: RingRevenue, GumGum, Adly, Burstly, Pose & TextPlus Angel ...