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Wrapify Q&A: Adhesive Giant Puts $3 M in Car Advertising Schtick

Xconomy

Heller founded Wrapify in early 2015 with the idea of creating a business that would pay motorists to wrap their cars in digitally printed advertising.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

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? was the “static&# web.

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Why Did I Invest in the Company Pose?

Both Sides of the Table

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. Pose is no different. He wanted to be an entrepreneur.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. I Be specific.

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Interview with Ross Levinsohn, Velocity Interactive Group

socalTECH

This morning, Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com) announced a venture round from Velocity Interactive Group for its software for managing online advertising. billion under management, in a number of funds, and we have been investing for the last year or two out of our existing $300 million fund. Our firm has about 1.5

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

socalTECH

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 We spoke with Sunil Rajaraman, CEO and co-founder of the firm, about the company. Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. You mentioned funding--you're raising a round?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

. ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. Internet advertising is good. No, it’ Startup 2.0: No, it’ Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming!