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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Last month, Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services , the firm behind The Numbers --one of the most extensive database of financial information about movies--announced a new service which allows third party software applications and websites to pull information from the firm's database, via OpusData (www.opusdata.com).

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

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APRIL 1, 2010

Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. I've been in the ad network business, helping Adconian, and know the web site publishing world. As of today, anyone can now sign on as a developer, and we're announcing the release of our marketplace.

Startup 164

Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. Jed Simon: My original job out of college was as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Advertising 133

Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. SimpleGeo – Provider of simple, turnkey location based services to content publishers and online service providers looking to location-enable their applications or services. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I ended up going to Harvard for college, and worked at JP Morgan in investment banking, and went to Harvard Law School. As part of that, we launched a web site to allow people to order printing online, and we also saw the ability to use QR codes to augment that printing. It's an LA institution, which my parents started in 1969.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. What's the idea behind Sometrics?

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). People got their knickers in a twist when they saw people like Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble having advertisers and endorsing brands on their sites. But 70% of my investment decision in early-stage companies is the team.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. What's the idea behind Sometrics?

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

It required content sites to develop totally new content. 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’re doing nothing.&# And I refused to say more.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326