Company Funding Social Network Web 2.0 
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed firm which has developed an online, Web 2.0-style style genealogy and social networking web sites for families, has connected the company's service with the popular Facebook social networking web site. READ MORE>>.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. At GRP alone we have a few companies in eight-digit millions in … EBITDA!
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SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
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. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
TV will enter the era of “participation” which is a much more important trend than “social video” even if it seems less sexy or less fundable. It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. and again here.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 18, 2011
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.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 29, 2009
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. was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Then came blogs.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2011
There is no shame in being an exec at a company or whatever.&#. Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,
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