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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 ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). students.

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Five Lessons Learned from the Ample Hills $8 Million Raise

This is going to be BIG.

Nothing seems to apply--you're not a tech company, you bootstrapped your way to millions in revenues before taking on capital, and you sell mostly through brick and mortar. Technically, that's what we called it, but it didn't seem entirely appropriate given that it had already been up and running for years and had millions in revenue.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures.

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A Socially-responsible, Triple-bottom line Taco Shop: SMB Tech Talk from Chaia

Hunter Walker

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. BS: As co-founders, Suzanne and I are equal business partners 50/50.

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A Socially-responsible, Triple-bottom line Taco Shop: SMB Tech Talk from Chaia

Hunter Walker

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. BS: As co-founders, Suzanne and I are equal business partners 50/50.

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

These platforms, leveraging vast amounts of user data, were able to offer targeted advertising solutions that were both more effective and appealing to advertisers, significantly eroding the ad revenue streams that publishers had relied on. It could help bring back some of that classified ad revenue that was lost. What do you think?