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Gravity Gets $10.6M More For Real Time Personalization

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The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures and August Capital. Gravity develops real-time, personalized web pages based on what consumers are most interested in, serving up personalized content on everything from iPad apps to web pages. READ MORE>>.

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How ChowNow Delivers Mobile Orders For Restaurants, With Christopher Webb

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It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. The platform can be divided into three products. What is ChowNow all about?

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

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Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

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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 Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. And then I saw many people developing Twitter spam filters.

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