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Gravity Debuts Content Personalization API

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The firm's tools allow web publishers to recommend content to users, while also inserting "sponsored stories" in those recommendations from advertisers. Gravity is backed by GRP Partners, Redpoint Ventures and August Capital, having most recently raise d$10.6M in a Series B funding round in October. READ MORE>>.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable.

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RingRevenue Takes $3.5M

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Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , which is developing technology for pay-per-call, telephone affiliate advertising, has raised $3.5M in a funding from GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and Great Pacific Capital. Tags: ringrevenue venture capital call telephone affiliate advertising. READ MORE>>.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web.

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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Andelman, Rincon Ventures

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1) Mobile web. The current incarnation of the mobile web changes what the Internet IS to users, and the manner in which it is incorporated into their lives. (2) 2) Advertising in the Facebook ecosystem. I'll list three, not necessarily in order. (1) 3) Cloud computing offerings as an enabler to lean startups. READ MORE>>.

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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? was the “static&# web.

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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. Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. READ MORE>>.

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