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Upfront Ventures Promotes Hudson To Principal

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Upfront said that Hudson will work on deal sourcing, deal screening, deal support, portfolio analysis, and other similar activities. Upfront Ventures was previously known as GRP Partners. Hudson has previously served at such firms as Fox Filmed Entertainment and GCA Savvian. Hudson had previously been an Associate at the firm.

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DataPop Gets $1.7M

socalTECH

According to Lehmbeck, in an interview with socalTECH, the company's software takes key specifications from products such as televisions and other consumer electronics, and applies them to ads automatically, so that instead of just advertising a big screen television an ad might contain key terms and information about those products.

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Why You Should Give Before You Get

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It’s why long before you ever want press coverage you need to spend time actually helping journalists, respecting their profession, taking their calls (not having your PR department screen them) and knowing what interests them. When I joined GRP Partners in 2007 I was offered a role as a General Partner.

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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.

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I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. He found creative ways to politely stay on my radar screen. I thought that was the end of it. Nice kid, but I see lots of nice kids.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Those companies are already going to be crushed by Skype’s new screen sharing capabilities. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. I don’t like the idea of taking on WebEx or GotoMeeting. File sharing? Enterprise collaboration?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). Steve was was walking through (live) the process of creating a Facebook ad. MongoDB at Etsy - Code as Craft , May 19, 2010 Hi! SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ).

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