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List of Entrepreneurial Contests and Awards

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Adify founder raises $8M for new startup Dynamic Signal

Dynamic Signal, a new startup led by the co-founder and former chief executive of ad company Adify, has raised $8 million in funding, according to a regulatory filing first spotted by Xconomy.

The San Bruno, Calif. company isn?t commenting on the funding and its website is pretty bare for now, but I’ve been hearing a few details. (If a lot of this looks pretty similar to the details reported in Business Insider, hey, I guess word gets around.)

Dynamic Signal was founded by a trio of Adify alums: CEO Russ Fradin (pictured above), chief technology officer Steve Heyman, and general manager Jim Larrison. They?re still interested in online advertising, in a way, but now the focus is on social networks, specifically building a platform to manage social media marketing.

I?ve also picked up a few more tidbits from the founders? LinkedIn profiles. Larrison describes the company as focused on (hold on, it?s a mouthful) ?enabling brand oriented companies in developing and solidifying their long term social media strategies and interactive asset investments.? And Heyman?s profile suggests that the company used to be called Influentials.net and that it spun out of Cox Enterprises (or at least was previously a ?Cox Enterprises company?), the media company that acquired Adify for $300 million back in 2008.

The investors in the new round include Cox, Venrock (an Adify investor), Trinity Ventures, and various angel investors.

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Tags: Social Media

Companies: adify, Cox Enterprises, Dynamic Signal, Trinity Ventures, Venrock

People: Jim Larrison, Russ Fradin, Steve Heyman

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Will Secretary of State Clinton's "Internet Freedom Agenda" Finally Get Traction?

Yesterday, in a major policy speech in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jumped on the Internet bandwagon again, unveiling a $25 million government investment for entrepreneurs to allow dissidents to thwart "thugs, hackers and censors."

Since that's about the amount a third-string social photo-sharing site gets while walking down University Avenue in Palo Alto, Calif., from venture capitalists with bags of money to spend, let me just say the money is, well, underwhelming.

Clinton's speech, thankfully, was much better.

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