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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. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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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 ). Enter Burstly. I like that. it has built in iPad support from Day 1.

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

During the recent launch of Blackberry 7 OS in Singapore, Research In Motion (RIM) executives had shared that Southeast Asia was a potential hotbed of application developers with whom they were keen to work with. RIM has actively established and supported BlackBerry Developer Groups across Asia.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? Advertising is great. was the 2-way web.

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Marketing Your App This Holiday

YoungUpstarts

Would your budget be better spent in January when advertising costs have started to drop? Reach out to bloggers, forums and websites that specialize in promos and deals for advertising or co-marketing opportunities; the more early exposure you can get, the better. Maybe your best bet is to back off of holiday altogether.

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How To Use Your Small Business Marketing Budget To Deliver Big ROI

YoungUpstarts

Being able to pitch to the right audience at the right time can thus prove to be a very effective method of advertising. How to run advertising on a tight budget. There are ample of Google Partner Agencies and Adwords certified individuals available locally who can setup and manage your Ad campaigns on an on-going basis.

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

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It ended the year with a collaboration that allows businesses to take Alipay payments and a TikTok plugin that allows them to make shoppable advertisements, I believe. because of how they're disrupting application development across all sectors. Thanks to Herman Hibbert, Leaf Gutter Guards ! #4- Photo Credit: Andre Kazimierski.