Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We built the website The Numbers, which tracks daily and weekly box office grosses and DVD sales, and we also provider consulting services--primarily to independent filmmakers, or anybody in the industry who needs to get financial data in order to support their business plan or to make investment decisions.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

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. Why do you think this form of advertising will be effective?

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

Mostly so that we can use the opportunity to write a blog entry and generate hype!) But most importantly, I think, we created the project with a hopeful mindset of “perhaps we can convince some people to invest in performance for the better of all web-app developers.”.

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APRIL 10, 2010

But wait, aren’t you the guy who invested in Ad.ly, the in-stream advertising company? Two things : 1) when I invested in Ad.ly It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. Aren’t they going to get squashed as Twitter starts to focus more on advertising?

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