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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? The large acquirers, the Microsoft and Yahoo''s of the world, were buying 20-40 companies a year. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it.

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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. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. If you’re an entrepreneur make sure you watch the video for that segment alone. Foursquare. -A

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