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MySpace, Ad.ly Link On In-Stream Advertising

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The deal comes shortly after Twitter said it would not be allowing other companies to automatically insert ads into its service, which looked to most direclty impact Ad.ly. squarely into a multi-way intersection of who's who in Southern California's blog and technology world. According to MySpace, it will use Ad.ly

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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures

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However, one, longtime local fund-- GRP Partners --appears to have found the right formula for venture success, and has just raised a brand new, $200 million fund. We''ve put lots of money into areas we know well, such as technology for the financial services industry, technology for retail services, and technology for digital media.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Want to Work in VC? Here’s How

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GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. We also have a very strong financial services practice so we welcome people with this interest area, too. I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. Yesterday.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. Thumbtack is marketplace for local services. Like TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon they solve the problem of people looking for local services – plumbers, nannies, contractors, etc. I’d be SHOCKED if they weren’t funded pretty quickly.

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What’s it Like Being a VC?

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Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. I was always in a “service&# industry. You call in from your vacation because you’ve had a service outage. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me. That’s true. Here’s why: 1.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. application services (security, integration), etc. Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it.

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