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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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Mobile Experience 2.0

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Applications (software, Operating Systems), Device Technologies (micro-processors, touch screens, system on chip radios, motion sensors) and Networks (GPRS, CDMA, LTE, WiMAX, WiFI). This forum brings together media companies, application developers, device manufacturers, networking and O.S.

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Creator…Know Thine Users! | Making Apps the Markets Want

Tech Zulu Event

.: one type of user may only be interested in check-ins, while another may be interested in creating new spots within your application. One for each of the main Hero Screens you have in your application. A Hero Screen is defined as a major application screen, from which additional screens will branch out.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications. It is expensive for software companies to build for heterogeneous environments. Enter Apple.

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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). I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe. So you're making multiple applications? What happened there?

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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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Interview with Hamilton Chan, PaperLinks

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We seem to talk to lots of companies recently generating QR codes -- how is this different, and how do you get above that noise? Was it difficult going from print to mobile application development? We are incorporated as a separate company, but we're all in the same area. Hamilton Chan: It was exciting and thrilling.

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