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

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I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. We were involved in the Gradient X deal, and that was a nice one.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. But you should.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market.