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Twitter Takes Aim At Ad.ly, Bans In-Stream Ads

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is backed by GRP Partners, Greycroft Ventures, and LowerMyBills founder Matt Coffin. TweetUp instead allows users to bid on keywords to promote their own tweets through other, non-Twitter web sites and search, and is not reliant on inserting ads into any Twitter stream.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Let me not bury the lede. Nice sweep!

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. If we continue our success we will have strong competition.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

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

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition.

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