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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. So did the media.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

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Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web 2.0 What's your company doing?

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. In this particular case I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea from the limited information I had. There is no shame in being an exec at a company or whatever.&#. Long hours. Low salary.

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Why Did I Invest in the Company Pose?

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I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. He quit the MRF and quietly amassed nearly $100,000 in angel investment to build a company. The Deal – I instantly loved the idea for the application, the market and Dustin’s vision. I still do.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. they released a new 2.0 We get it! Stay Tuned.

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Interview with Jan Zands, Phonesheet.com

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So what Phonesheet.com does is takes that antiquated system and modernizes it, using a Web 2.0 Where'd the idea come from? I was the in house software designer/developer for Artist Management Group, which was Michael Ovitz's company. Do you see certain kinds of company that will find this useful, or anybody?

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