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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. Mark Suster at GRP lead the firm's investment, with Jim Andelman heading up Rincon's involvement. READ MORE>>.

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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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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. 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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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications.