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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. The large acquirers, the Microsoft and Yahoo''s of the world, were buying 20-40 companies a year. For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny.

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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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Interview with Matthew Graczyk, Zubican

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It was the third week of December 2006, and I was involved with a biodiesel company. it combined the metrics of how a company is rated, if a company has taken control of their profile, how much data we have, and how recently it was updated, and how often that profile is used by users. What's the Z-Score you have on your site?

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