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Burstly Opens Up Mobile Ad Service

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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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Burstly Snags $1.8M For Mobile Ad Tools

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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. Mark Suster at GRP lead the firm's investment, with Jim Andelman heading up Rincon's involvement. READ MORE>>.

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Dreamhammer's Dream Of Interoperable Drones

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We ended up positioning ourselves around 2008 to start developing and marketing the product. Manufacturers of drones can now have multiple applications that can run on those drones, not just the applications they have built. That will be an open aperture for the third party application developers.

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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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. Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment.

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TechZulu Trend Lounge Creates the Stage at SXSW Interactive 2013

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Needless to say, your chances of bumping into Robert Scoble on 6th Street to show him your beta are much slimmer than in 2008 when there were only 9,000 registered attendees. Mike Schwartz, Application Developers Alliance. This is precisely why we worked with SXSW to launch the TechZulu Trend Lounge. Relive the moments here.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. I have been lucky to have been around both parts of corporate IT and application development teams, and on the infrastructure side.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.