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JULY 6, 2010

billion in Q2 of 2009. billion on the markets, compared with only 14 deals and $2.3 billion in 2009. Of those deals, the most amount raised in the markets was for Energy, where there were four IPOs which raised $1.3 Tags: merger acquisition market. billion dollars. billion dollars.

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MARCH 28, 2014

2U , an online education company which has significant operations in Los Angeles, has had a successful IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market, debuting Friday morning as TWOU. 2U was previously known as 2tor, and first raised funding back in 2009 , when Redpoint was a very active Los Angeles area investment firm. Redpoint Ventures owned 23.2

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. AMREL Power is a provider of direct current (DC) power supplies and loads for the automated test equipment market. AMTEK said that its Electronic Instruments Group has 2009 sales of $1.1 AMTEK said that its Electronic Instruments Group has 2009 sales of $1.1

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MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Both firms were run by the same staff, and provide content and search marketing for the consumer automotive market. Autobytel said that Cyber Ventures and Autotropolis had a combined, $10M in annual revenues in 2009. Autobytel said the acquisition would extend its core growth and margin-enhancement strategy. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

The report, which gauges the optimism of venture investors in Silicon Valley, saying that there was a slight rise in confidence in Q4, due to rising public capital markets, a "burgeoning" market for acquisition, plus an increasing number of IPO exits for venture-backed firms.

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MARCH 19, 2010

in an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market. The firm reported revenues of $998K in 2009, and a loss of $19.9M Tags: genmark diagnostics gnmk merger acquisition lifescience biomarker detection scientific equipment. The firm said it is looking to trade as GNMK. The firm's IPO is being underwritten by Piper Jaffray and Leerink Swann.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , a developer of RF integrated circuits for the wireless and other markets, filed for an IPO late Friday, saying it is looking to raise up to $100M on either the Nasdaq Global Market or New York Stock Exchange. in 2009, and a net loss of $2.5M on revenues of $70.5M on revenues of $67.6M

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MARCH 19, 2010

Valeant said the Brazilian firm has annual sales of approximately $19M in 2009, mainly in the dermatology business. Valeant said the buy will advance its dermatolog presence in the Brazilian market. Tags: valeant pharmaceuticals merger acquisition lifescience dermatology brazil.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2009

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 -- OUTLOOK 2009: Getting MandA and Financing Deals Done in a Tight Credit Market. Discussion on the outlook for mergers and acquisition and other financing deals in 2009. Gold Coast Business Forum. See [link] (more).

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MAY 12, 2010

Wells was CMO at Mint.com until its acquisition by Intuit in 2009; she has also served at Expedia as Senior Vice President of U.S. marketing, Charles Schwab, Intuit, and American Express. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Medallia (NYSE: MDLA ) IPO earlier this year was one of a number of successful public market debuts by companies offering cloud-based software, often dubbed software-as-a-service. Carlsbad, CA-based Zingle, founded in 2009 by CEO Ford Blakely, allows businesses such as hotels to view and manage many.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

Santa Ana-based Secure Technology Company , a developer of ruggedized computers for the military and other markets, has been sold to Benchmark Electronics in a deal worth $230M in cash. Secure Technology's computers and other electronics are sold into the highly regulated industrial, aerospace and defense markets. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 6, 2010

No question, the economic downturn took its toll on software industry mergers and acquisitions in 2009. The market got eerily quiet.until the fourth quarter when there was a flurry of software MandA activity. Buyers are highly motivated, have record amounts of cash, and the debt markets have recovered.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Jon discusses the returns from Southern California IT IPOs between 1995 and 2009. There were no IPO's in our category at all in 2001 and 2002 as the public markets languished in the doldrums following the declines of the previous year. Markets displayed a healthy rationality, pricing these IPO's at an average of $366 million.

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JUNE 17, 2010

In the latest Southern California firm to target the public markets, Inphi Corp. , for the year ended December 31, 2009. Tags: inphi analog semiconductor merger acquisition iphi. Inphi is venture backed by Walden International, Tallwood, Mayfield Fund, and Samsung Electronics. on total revenues of $58.8M READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Raine Securities, and JMP Securities. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the firm had a net loss of $21.9M The firm's IPO is being underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & Co.,

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

ReachLocal said it would pay approximately $10M for DealOn Media LLC, which offers up local deals businesses in 18 markets across the U.S., DealOn was founded in 2009. a white labeled and co-branded deals platform, and an online exchange for trading deals with other deal sites.

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MARCH 21, 2016

billion in Q1 of 2016--the weakest first quarter of the year since 2009. The report noted concerns about a "global economic slowdown, falling oil prices and turbulent equity markets." The report, from Ernst & Young, said that companies are likely exploring other options or waiting for confidence to return for their IPOs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

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JUNE 22, 2010

Google appeared as a competitor to YouMail back in March of 2009, when it launched Google Voice from its acquisition of GrandCentral Commmunications, but had been limiting access to the service to a small number of invite-only users.

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

Santa Ana-based CoreLogic , a provider of consumer, financial and property information, analytics and services to the real estate, mortgage, and other markets, said this morning that it has soled its Employer Services and Litigation Support business to private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG). The deal was worth $265M in cash.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The firm's IPO is being underwritten by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi, Allen & Company LLC, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, ThinkEquity LLC, and WR Hambrecht+Co. in 2009, and a net loss of $18.18M on revenues of $188.5M The firm is venture backed by ESPN, Canaan partners, ABS Ventures, as well as others. w READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

According to Boingo, it intends to apply to list on the NASDAQ Global Market as WIFI. on revenues of $65.715M for 2009, and net income of $5.67M on revenues of $59.0M The firm's IPO is being underwritten by Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, Pacific Crest Securities, and William Blair & Company.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Year to year revenues were up from the $60.89M the firm reported for its year ended June 30, 2009. on the NASDAQ Global Market as NXSN. The firm is a developer of storage arrays used by the enterprise market. Nexsan is looking to raise up to $69.0M Nexsan had delayed its public offering in April of last year. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 27, 2011

NewEgg had filed for an IPO in September of 2009. READ MORE>>.

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NewEgg Southern California City of Industry City of Industry 194

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops (www.SoCconference.com) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. VentureNet 2009 (www.venturenet.org) - October 7, Costa Mesa. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What that's done, is it's create a large hit in this space, at the top right end of the market.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone On Demand , which recently filed for an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market as CSOD, has updated its IPO filings documents with the SEC. The revenues are up from the first nine months of 2009, when the firm had $21.2M due to the change in the fair value of its preferred stock warrant liabilities. in revenues.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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MARCH 19, 2019

We really started scaling the business in 2009 and 2010, to where we are now with 300 employees, hiring quite rapidly both here in LA as well as in our international offices. We were really focused on customer acquisition. For us, that benefited Telesign as well, because the market was catching up to what we were offering.

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

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MARCH 1, 2012

After IAC, I started my own company, MerchEngines, which was a search marketing platform for local businesses. in 2009, and through that process I learned a lot about local businesses, and about customer acquisition pain points. After I met the team here at Idealab, we hit it off. That's an interesting jump off point.

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Southern California Idealab Startup Custom 245

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

The firm is announcing today that it has just reached its 17 millionth registered user, having added more than 300,000 new users since its August acquisition. In 2009/2010, I joined the team which had been building out the Titan platform, with the idea that the competitive gaming model was very attractive.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). www.SoCconference.com ) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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