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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. I like that.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. 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. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? Advertising is great. Then came blogs.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. Theyre like companies in the US like and ATT or Verizon, or an Orange in France, or others in Poland and Russia and other countries. Whats the relationship of this company to Gary Winnick?

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Crowdfunder Hosts 1st Crowdsourced Startup Contest | Crowdstart LA

Tech Zulu Event

A total of 10 startups made up of 5 companies that received the most votes from the crowd and 5 companies chosen by the Angels and VC judges pitched in front of a live audience for a chance of winning $25,000 in funding. The panel of experts not only judged the competition but also gave the companies feedback after their pitch.

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Interview with Hamilton Chan, PaperLinks

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This presents an opportunity for people, businesses, and brands who have products in the real world and in retail storefronts, packaging, and advertisements, allowing people to get additional information from what they are already seeing out there. Adoption and awareness of QR codes is good for consumers, and good for advertisers.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. But having different funds available for different stages of one’s company is actually a really good thing. DEAL OF THE WEEK: Gilt Groupe – We both admired this company.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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I said in the following video that I thought Twitter would by Seesmic , the company that makes one of the most popular Twitter clients. (If you’re interested you can watch my comments by fast forwarding to minute 31.25 This also would give the client the upper hand in discussions with advertisers, image providers, URL shorteners, etc.