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Ad.ly, Diversifying From Twitter, Looks To Facebook

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , the Twitter advertising startup, is further looking to diversify its service from Twitter, saying this week that it has added support for Facebook. Twitter has rolled out its own mobile applications in competition with third party Twitter clients; its own link shortener; and its own advertising service.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. The company was called Red Beacon.

CTO Coach 359
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ChowNow Raises $3M to Level the Online Food Ordering Field for Small Biz

Tech Zulu Event

Funds were contributed by returning investor GRP Partners along with Double M Capitol, Karlin Ventures, LaunchPad LA and Daher Capitol, all local investors. Tools available to food service companies include a branded mobile app, website integration with online ordering, and full menu ordering capability through Facebook.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

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.

Angel 254
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A Conversation with Ben Satterfield, Burstly

socalTECH

Burstly is headed by Evan Rifkin, and backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective. It''s currently in closed beta, and will be a free service, and provides a unique insight into what your app is doing right now, collecting information in real time. What is Burstly?

Startup 262
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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

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. does make it seem like it's a lot of work.

Platform 150