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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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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. Tags: rifkin evan advertising mobile capital venture burstly. READ MORE>>.

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Dreamhammer's Dream Of Interoperable Drones

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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. We ended up positioning ourselves around 2008 to start developing and marketing the product. That will be an open aperture for the third party application developers.

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. 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? Our space is pretty young. We were enamored of the iPhone at Apple.

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TechZulu Trend Lounge Creates the Stage at SXSW Interactive 2013

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Needless to say, your chances of bumping into Robert Scoble on 6th Street to show him your beta are much slimmer than in 2008 when there were only 9,000 registered attendees. Mike Schwartz, Application Developers Alliance. Mobile technology discussion by Flurry. Relive the moments here. A group discussion from RAPP.

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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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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. Today we’re online 3.1