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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

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. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook).

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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

Many platforms, such as IndieGoGo , allow startups to solicit funding commitments from non-professional investors in exchange for a pre-defined reward or perk, such as a T-shirt or other recognition, but no ownership in the company. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Many platforms, such as IndieGoGo , allow startups to solicit funding commitments from non-professional investors in exchange for a pre-defined reward or perk, such as a T-shirt or other recognition, but no ownership in the company. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return.

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

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If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. How did the idea for the company come about?

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. What happened there?

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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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