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What Mattered in 2010: Bruce Hallett, Miramar Venture Partners

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All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Right here in Los Angeles, Gil Elbaz and his team at Factual are building a platform and pipe for structured datasets that can be accessed (and purchased) as an on-demand service by anyone who needs them.

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What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. These companies have all experienced growth and we're expecting substantial value creation in 2011. Pay attention to what Los Angeles entrepreneurs are doing, it's going to be an interesting 2011.

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Vator Makes A Splash In LA!

Tech Zulu Event

The inaugural Splash LA event will be held on the evening of May 26, 2011, at The Highlands Hollywood. The evening gathering brings together high-profile, successful tech entrepreneurs sharing their lessons and advice alongside promising startups showcasing their innovative ideas. The third round is an audience vote.

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First Ever Startup Weekend Orange County Live!

Tech Zulu Event

Maneesh has more than nine years of product development and operational experience in the high tech industry. He also has product strategy and business development experience in the areas of video-on-demand services and RF CMOS components. in venture capital and publicly launched in May 2011.

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

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One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? Certainly, the IPO momentum seems to be back, and even more surprisingly, ad-tech has been lots of those IPOs. What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit. The government had a tax incentive for first-time buyers that expired April 30 th , which many people believe “pulled forward” demand rather than improved the market.