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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. 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. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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DataPop Launches New Semantic Advertising Product

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Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider DataPop , the startup led by Jason Lehmbeck, announced this morning that it has launched a new semantic advertising product specifically aimed at Google Product Listing Ads (PLA). Pricing on the new platform were not announced by the company.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

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innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated My first ever investment as a VC was Invoca.

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Nativo Gets $3.5M For Native Advertising Technology

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Los Angeles-based Nativo , the online advertising technology firm led by Justin Choi, has raised $3.5M Sponsored content/native advertising is the technique of interspersing information from sponsors or advertisers within a news stream or forum--in a way that it looks and feels like editorial. READ MORE>>.

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SHIFT Aims At Social Advertising Analytics

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Santa Monica-based advertising analytics startup SHIFT launched a new product Wednesday, aimed at helping marketers analyze social advertising campaigns. shift social advertising analytics software tools grapheffect' Pricing on the new service was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. 11:40-14:15).

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MediaAlpha Gets Funding For Insurance Advertising Technology

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Los Angeles-based MediaAlpha , a developer of performance-based, real-time bidding advertising technology specifically aimed at insurance ads, has raised a round of funding and launch of its product. which will go towards its advertising technology platform. Size of the investment and other terms of the funding were not announced.