socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. I've been in the ad network business, helping Adconian, and know the web site publishing world. Our space is pretty young.

Startup 164

Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

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APRIL 10, 2010

In a world in which you have strong client applications for consuming “multiproduct streams&# then they gain relative power to any individual stream (e.g. This also would give the client the upper hand in discussions with advertisers, image providers, URL shorteners, etc. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

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MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. This never existed a decade ago.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

And being gateways to the customer they naturally extracted their pound of flesh from mobile application developers. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. We now have a couple of hundred thousand applications developed. Should you now hire Android developers?

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326