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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. How about mergers and acquisitions? 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.

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

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Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Competitors: Gowalla. Current round: $4. See: TechCrunch.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

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Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Entrepreneurism / Monetization acquisition, entrepreneur, internet. .

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook. NAME Google.