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FastSpring Acquired By Accel-KKR

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Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , which develops e-commerce software for subscription-based software businesses, has been acquired by private equity investor Accel-KKR. According to FastSpring, Accel-KKR has made a majority equity investment in the firm, to provide capital and resources for its technology and go-to-market initiatives.

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Reflections on 2016: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank

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Silicon Valley Bank is big supporter and has been a sponsor of socaltech for many, many years. Traditional venture capitalists will focus on leading larger rounds of equity in fewer companies. Since joining SVB in 2005, Rob has led debt transactions for more than 100 public and private companies. Rob Freelen: Focus.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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Where there are lots of players focused on different types of equity, different types of investments, different types of debt, they're doing it in a very unfocused manner. That specific type of asset is first position, real estate debt, in an area of real estate that is called hard money loans. We're also 100 percent focused on debt.

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Interview with Scott Saunders, Payoff.com

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Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. You mentioned you had been on the investment side of things -- what pushed you to become an entrepreneur? The firm is backed by a notable list of angel investors, and based in Los Angeles.

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

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Seventeen lawyer regional firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP has represented digital media, internet, technology, consumer electronics, and entertainment companies and investment funds out of its Sherman Oaks office since its formation in 2002. socalcto socaltech Follow @pandodaily. Like PandoDaily on Facebook.

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How Kixer Is Connecting Mobile Web Users To Apps

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What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. We bought SheKnows for a couple of million, and six years later Evolve sold that to a private equity company for over $100M. By the next morning, they asked us if we wanted them to invest.

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Interview with Kevin O'Connor, FindTheBest.com

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Kevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick , which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2 billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Today, we've now done it for over 400 different areas.

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