socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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OpenX CTO Hire GRP Partners CIO 223

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo!

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

End users don’t care about the technical details anyway, so there has been some interesting work on standards for social activity streams and activity stream aggregation. which has already been adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Opera and many others with Google and Yahoo! The standard to watch is activity strea.ms

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29