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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 ). Burstly aslo has iPad video ad support. This means that changes are afoot.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. ” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology. Deviant Art, led by Angelo Sotira, which is one of the largest online communities on the Internet [Hollywood]. Not derivative.

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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

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I also did a very short video on the topic. [if We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. We set up Formation Media to bring that experience to the Internet. I’m a partner at the largest VC fund in Southern California.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other detriments to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions. Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.”.When

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Can You Create a Great App Without a Tech Background? One Entrepreneurial Mom Shows You How It’s Done

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Jillian Darlington, right, the founder of the MomCo app, with her co-founder Beth Bryan. But, rather than letting those potential roadblocks stand in her way, she started the way many entrepreneurs start—by taking her research to the internet. You can make this happen.”. But, she dove in and did her research. “I

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.