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

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Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. 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. Their only option is an IPO.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. It’s awesome. The deals we quickly went through are: 1.

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