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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. We can technology enable offline advertising. Thus, we click!

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Nami Media Acquired By TV Broadcaster

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Los Angeles-based Nami Media , a provider of online advertising technology, has been acquired by Providence, Rhode Island-based LIN TV Corp. , Financial terms of the investment and acquisition were not disclosed. a publicly traded operator of 32 broadcast television systems. Nami Media is headed by Alex B. READ MORE>>.

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Burstly Opens Up Mobile Ad Service

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Burstly also said its new Storefront feature allows advertisers to use geo-targeting, supports both CPC and CPM pricing models, and supports both Apple iOS and Android phones. GRP's investment in Burstly was overseen by omnipresent technology investor Mark Suster, and Jim Andeleman was the lead on Rincon's investment in the company.

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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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How Mobile Is Changing Oversee's Business, With Debra Domeyer

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Domeyer recently told us how mobile visitors to the web are dramatically changing how Oversee looks at the market, and are pushing the firm to invest more in technology to adapt to mobile users. If someone goes to a certain domain now, instead of seeing a CPC advertisement, we could instead offer them to download different apps.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. acquired Overture for $1.63

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. Entertainment is confusing--we didn't make investments in pure content plays. On the other side, we had about one third of our investments in early stage, technology driven companies.

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