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

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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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Dreamhammer's Dream Of Interoperable Drones

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Dreamhammer is one of a number of robotics and drone-related startups here in Southern California. Nelson Paez : For the past four years, Dreamhammer has been developing a software product called BALLISTA, which is what we refer to as a drone operating system. What''s Dreamhammer? That''s a key factor. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Andrew Humphries, UK's Tech City

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On the invitation of UK Trade and Investment, socalTECH Contributing Editor Travis Oberlander has traveled this week to London for us, to compare and contrast the efforts in the UK to establish their own technology center with our own efforts in Southern California.). What is the Tech City Investment Organization?

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies.

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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. Primarily because you can launch applications where you focus on a acquiring a user base with a compelling product while not having to worry about how to build your services into a map view or having to build in services that find local businesses, etc.