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Ad.ly Raises $5M

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The round comes from GRP Partners, Greycroft Ventures, and Matt Coffin, the founder of LowerMyBills. Sean Rad, founder of Ad.ly, told socalTECH that the company will be using the new funding round to scale its business, and field the impressive demand the firm has been seeing. s Fox Audience Network. READ MORE>>.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

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Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy. billion was invested in Southern California start-ups with 220 new companies launching in Los Angeles.

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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). Let me not bury the lede. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist.

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

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The problem with VC Seed Funding – Chris is right to raise the issue with entrepreneurs because there have been instances where large VC funds have set up seed programs where the investments have been used as “options.&# There are many problems with this. invested in the seed round they have more inside knowledge than I do.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Performance marketing also demands accountability. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ). We wanted investment partners that understood performance marketing and what it was like to be an entrepreneur from having done it before themselves. In reality, they want to buy customers, not ads. Deaf or blind?

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TechZulu Live from StartupDemo

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This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. Be sure to tune in at 5:30pm PT. Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka. The Startups.