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Cheers Gains $2.5M To Spread Happiness, Joy

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Mohit is one of the pioneers of the Southern California high tech industry, having founded Bizrate back in 1995, based on his thesis at Wharton. Scripps for $525M in 2005. Bizrate eventually became Shopzilla, and was acquired by E.W. Cheers launched last February. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Todd Jerry, Marmol Radziner

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The prefab building area has seen some recent venture capital interest, most recently with Blu Homes in Boston, which just scored some new venture capital. Within that have own custom cabinet shop, our own metal shop, make our own furniture, and as an offshoot of that, started exploring developing modular, prefab homes in 2005.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Our mentors as we've built up this effort in LA are TechStars, Tech Wildcatters in Dallas, and Accelerator Labs in Chicago.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal. acquisition merger exits interview capital venture banking investment siemer david' READ MORE>>.

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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

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Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. According to Wardog, “We registered the domain www.standuppaddlesurfing.com on October 21, 2005, before the sport was even referred to as ‘standup paddle surfing.’”

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." While this is not slated to change anytime soon, one possible way to bridge this gap is through federal venture capital.

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

Offer meaningful incentives to bring back high-tech manufacturing. In fact, between 1995 and 2005, these same immigrants founded over 50 percent of the venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley, and are some of the key venture capitalists there as well.

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