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Building A Dream Team For Mobile Advertising, with Gradient X

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Gradient X is backed by Rincon Venture Partners, GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures), CrossCut Ventures, Founder Collective, Siemer Ventures, Baroda Ventures, and Double M Partners. There are lots of players in this market, why you are different? What is Gradient X? Michael Lum: We have a great founding team.

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The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

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Startups are hard. You’ve heard that a million times. Those that we survive with become family. It’s something you can’t know unless you’ve ever been in the trenches. Working hard together at a big company just isn’t the same. Which engineers dialed it in before a big release because it was during July 4th weekend?

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The Best Entrepreneurs Are Hyper Competitive & Hate Losing

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First, I personally am not super human – I hope I’ve never implied that. I’m just a normal person with strengths, weaknesses and idiosyncrasies - just like you. Nobody can be super human all all fronts. He has a willingness and ability to both pivot & take risks in a way that is astonishing to me. I lose sleep.

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. If I were a number 3-5 players I’d be looking to exit early while there’s still a lot of enthusiasm for this hot market. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Partners leave the industry. Here’s my take: 1.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up.

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