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TrueCar Jumps In IPO As Socal Tech Exits Continue

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online new car pricing and buying site, jumped in its IPO Friday morning, trading up 16 percent in early trading this morning. per share, up around 16 percent over its pricing at $9.00 truecar southern california technology exit merger acquisition true' per share late last night. READ MORE>>.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

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Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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SoCal Investor Benefits From Fabrinet IPO

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A little known Southern California venture capital investor is benefiting from the IPO of Silicon Valley-based Fabrinet today, after Fabrinet said it has priced its IPO and will list on the New York Stock Exchange. Fabrinet said Friday that it has priced its IPO at $10.00, down from an estimated pricing range of $12.00

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Pandora IPO Benefits Socal Investors

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Wednesday during morning trading, after pricing at $16.00 estimated pricing range from last week. Champagne glasses must be clinking for a few, lucky Southern California investors and executives this morning, as the IPO of Oakland-based Pandora Media had a rousing welcome on Wall Street. Pandora was trading as high as $26.00

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Zynga IPO Rewards SoCal Investors

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Among the biggest winners of the IPO of Zynga is San Diego-based Avalon Ventures , which owned 32,169,401 shares of Zynga before the IPO, a stake which was worth $321M based on Zynga's opening price this morning. Zynga priced at $10.00 Zynga looks to be among the most visible exits from that firm's portfolio yet.

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SoCal Racks Up Another Successful IPO

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Southern California appears to be on a IPO roll this month, with the pricing of Monrovia-based Green Dot 's IPO last night and expected trading today, following the successful IPO of Beverly Hills-based RealD last Friday. Tags: southern california merger acquisition gdot reald.