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DECEMBER 10, 2009

According to OVP's site, it was approached in 2005 by the CFO of a former portfolio company, who had made money for the firm twice before, begging the firm to invest. Tags: networksinmotion networks motion merger acquisition venture capital. The lesson: "In this business, as in life - timing is everything." READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp. During 2011, the analysis identified 73 exits by companies, with an average value of approximately $106M.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). I first met Ethan in 2005. RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides.

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JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. What's the story behind the acquisition? Quinn, thanks for the time. You'd mentioned you had some investors?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. How about mergers and acquisitions? We invest globally, with 20 percent of our funds outside the U.S.,

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JUNE 13, 2019

In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding.

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JULY 21, 2011

You decide how much you want to invest in your employees and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves. 4) What lessons from launching the Lincoln Group in Baghdad in 2005 are transferable to today’s LA startup scene? For me, it comes down to the right people – I usually invest in teams.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Among the highest acquisition values were MySpace ($580M in 2005), Shopzilla ($560M in 2005), Rent.com ($430M in 2004), Lowermybills ($330M in 2005) and Sandpiper Networks ($630M in 1999). Tags: results investment exit california southern acquisition merger capital venture. IPO in 1996). "The

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I had worked before at BEA Systems, the middleware company which was acquired by Oracle in 2004 or 2005, and we used to joke that the company had been built entirely by acquisitions. After the acquisition, we have been investing dramatically in that team.

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MAY 27, 2009

We caught up with Peter earlier this week to get the background on Baroda, and to talk a little about the firm's investment goals. Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC. Also, consider asking for a carve-out for acquisitions.” If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! The Magicians Tells Their Secrets.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Although this is a somewhat unusual real estate transaction, it reflects a surprisingly common scenario in the world of mergers and acquisitions, with one important distinction. To bolster our negotiating position, we engaged an investment banking firm to explore the IPO market. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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JULY 20, 2015

The latest evidence of the city’s dynamic startup ecosystem is the recent announcement by Citrix to investment significant resources in the Santa Barbara Innovator’s Program. Many of these individuals become restless in their youthful “retirement” and begin investing and advising young companies. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Entertainment is confusing--we didn't make investments in pure content plays. Our largest investment was a partnership with Norman Lear's Act III Communications, we did a series of acquisition in the movie theater space. On the other side, we had about one third of our investments in early stage, technology driven companies.

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JULY 7, 2010

At Rincon Venture Partners , the single most important facet we consider when contemplating a new investment is the quality of the Serial Team. Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO. The factors that cause Serial Teams to be good investments for venture capitalists make them equally advantageous for young entrepreneurs. Be A Roadie.

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MARCH 29, 2010

He left to start his own firm, which only invests in data-based companies, who are all focused on accumulation and use of data. The two we're disclosing right now are Jerry Neumann, who ran mergers and acquisition for Omnicom, and Josh Styleman, CEO of Reprise Media, which was sold to IPG and became their search product.

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MARCH 25, 2016

What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. is a good monthly investment? Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com.

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