10 posts and columns on Mark Suster

Twitter Starts to Claim Credit for Sending Other People Traffic

in Social on August 22, 2011 at 4:30 pm PT

In the last week, Twitter has dramatically ramped up its efforts to receive credit for helping send traffic to other people’s Web pages.
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How Much Traffic Does Twitter Really Drive?

in Social on July 14, 2011 at 11:38 am PT

Twitter drives four times as much traffic as you think it does, say awe.sm co-founder Jonathan Strauss and his investor Mark Suster in a minor media assault today.
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News Byte

DataSift Raises $6M as Investor “Doubles Down on Twitter Ecosystem”

in Social on July 11, 2011 at 7:18 am PT

DataSift, one of only two licensed resellers of real-time Twitter data and the creator of TweetMeme, has raised $6 million in Series A funding from IA Ventures and GRP Partners. Investor Mark Suster of GRP wrote a long blog post explaining that he is “doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift,” which boils down to a pitch for Twitter and its reasonableness toward outside developers versus other platform companies like Apple, Google and Facebook.

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What A Double-Dip Recession Would Mean For Venture Capital

in News on August 31, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

One year ago I worried that consumers were overstretched with debt, and unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of venture capital investment even further.