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Meet Our Startup of the Year Competition Semifinalists: Mobile Therapy

Tech.Co

From apps to hardware, to KickStarter successes and international startups, we’re inching closer to finding out who will take home the title of Startup of the Year competition at our annual Celebrate Conference in October. Among the dozens of participants that applied for the online competitions, only a few progressed into the semifinals.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.

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Interview with Hamilton Chan, PaperLinks

socalTECH

I ended up going to Harvard for college, and worked at JP Morgan in investment banking, and went to Harvard Law School. I know that because we were in the print industry, it was important to diversify and to be competitive in the digital age. Was it difficult going from print to mobile application development?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Jelli - I went on record saying that I wanted to invest and that I think this company will create a big success. Founded in 2007. Employees: 27. Total raised: $16.5mm. Read more: VentureBeat.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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As we learned from our investment in Overture and the subsequent success of Google, “intent-based&# advertising is enormously powerful. A healthy eco-system of application developers is required for any software or Internet company to be massively successful. If we continue our success we will have strong competition.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 16

TechEmpower

Most importantly, the community has been contributing some amazing test implementations and demonstrating the fun and utility of some good-natured performance competition. Recent months have been a very exciting time for this project. More on that later. Dockerification… Dockerifying… Docking?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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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. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs.