Imagine if you walked into a used car dealership and knew exactly how much the dealer was skimming off your purchase. I don’t want to draw a parallel between used car sales and the mobile ad marketplace, but it’s an industry, like many, that could use more transparency. Burstly, an ad manager service, wants to [...]
Tags: Ad Space, Advertising Revenue, Beta Users, Boy Genius Report, Business Model, Car Dealership, Car Sales, Ecpm, Grp Partners, Interstitials, Ipad, Iphone, Makeover, Open Platform, Reincarnation, Revenue Streams, Rifkin, Rincon, Risk Guarantee, Suster
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Tue, March 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Silicon Valley has long been heralded as the Mecca for startups, but it isn’t the only city in California to give rise to promising tech companies.
Los Angeles has a growing startup community, and is home to startups like DocStoc and a few much larger businesses, like MySpace and CitySearch. One program looking to [...]
Tags: Angel Investors, Citysearch, Co President, Fox Media, Grp Partners, Incubator Programs, Institutional Venture Capital, Interested Companies, Launchpad, Media Interactive, Mentorship Program, Myspace, Nazar, Participating Companies, Salesforce, Silicon Valley, Suster, Sword Group, Vp Product Management, Y Combinator
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Thu, March 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Some VCs are getting an early Valentine’s Day gift fromTheFunded, the site where CEOs rate venture capitalists and their firms. Below you will find the top-ranked individual VCs, as determined by their ratings in 2009. What makes this ranking particularly useful to entrepreneurs is that it is ratings by other CEOs, often CEOs [...]
Tags: Angel Investors, Ceos, Charles River Ventures, Fred Wilson, Greylock, Grp Partners, Howard Morgan, Investment Performance, Investment Pros, Investment Returns, John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield, Michael Moritz, Mike Maples, Personal Experiences, Popularity Contest, Roelof Botha, Suster, Terry Mcguire, Venture Capitalists
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Tue, February 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in 2005 and selling to a publicly traded French services company. He founded his second company in Palo Alto [...]
Tags: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Europe, French Services, General Partner, Grp Partners, London, Palo Alto, Sentiment, Silicon Valley, Stage Technology Companies, Startups, Vc, Vp Product Management, Yo Yo
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Sun, January 31 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments