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Burstly Opens Up Mobile Ad Service

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Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Rifkin is the former founder of Tagworld, which he sold to MTVN in 2008. READ MORE>>.

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Burstly Snags $1.8M For Mobile Ad Tools

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Mark Suster at GRP lead the firm's investment, with Jim Andelman heading up Rincon's involvement. Burstly is developing mobile advertising tools for the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms, which allows application developers to manage and optimize their advertising inventory. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. We caught up with founder Evan Rifkin --who previously founded and sold TagWorld/Flux to MTVN in November of 2008--to learn more about the startup. What is Burstly? Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.

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Dreamhammer's Dream Of Interoperable Drones

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We ended up positioning ourselves around 2008 to start developing and marketing the product. Manufacturers of drones can now have multiple applications that can run on those drones, not just the applications they have built. That will be an open aperture for the third party application developers.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 4.0 – Wireless is the next big thing – hurry!

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. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Finally, we convinced a firm to invest. ► October (1) New Video!

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