socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Rifkin is the former founder of Tagworld, which he sold to MTVN in 2008. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Services CPC GRP Partners 171

socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2010

Mark Suster at GRP lead the firm's investment, with Jim Andelman heading up Rincon's involvement. Burstly is developing mobile advertising tools for the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms, which allows application developers to manage and optimize their advertising inventory. READ MORE>>.

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Tool Mobile GRP Partners Advertising 157

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. We caught up with founder Evan Rifkin --who previously founded and sold TagWorld/Flux to MTVN in November of 2008--to learn more about the startup. We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android.

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Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet advertising is good. Finally, we convinced a firm to invest.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. This never existed a decade ago.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347