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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Users were outraged. “The Internet is free, you can’t make money off it! that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Then came blogs.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

In fact, in the 70’s and 80’s, the distinction was almost entirely semantic, as the military and aerospace industry invested ungodly amounts of capital to create technology breakthroughs that eventually saw wide commercial adoption in the personal computing industry. These are businesses aiming for scale and impact, not merely monetization.

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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

Domain names are less important than they were in the first Internet wave, because so many people will access your service on mobile and/or via apps, and because type-in traffic is declining. Other non-semantic variables are important as well. Names with homophones will cause needless confusion.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Attenti’s two principal investors, Francisco Partners and the Israeli branch of the U.S. Attenti was initially founded as a software venture in 1990 by three ex-air force pilots, but after three years the partners decided that a change of business model was in order, and moved to hardware. Diversified U.S. in August 2010.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. So is the internet. With cross platform SDKs and ad partners in 200 countries, developers receive a complete solution and their revenue grows accordingly. CellBuddy - Company Website.

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The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)

www.readwriteweb.com

Internet of Things. semantic web. RWW PARTNERS. ReadWriteWeb. Key Trends. App Stores. Real-Time Web. Structured Data. Top Topics. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile. Online Communities. The Social Layer. POPULAR TAGS. social media. advertising.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

Never say never – GRP Partners is actually looking very closely at a company in its A round that is raising a large sum of money. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. Gil Elbaz from Applied Semantics has now created Factual.