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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. The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. The world is going mobile.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Thus, we click! And it turns out that we click a lot.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. The idea there is to grow our exchange in Japan, which is the second largest advertising market in the world. I think you are seeing a rapid cycle of innovation, with mid-size companies making lots of progress and bringing new products and ideas to market.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ).