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

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We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. The large acquirers, the Microsoft and Yahoo''s of the world, were buying 20-40 companies a year.

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LA Startup Report 2013 | A Rising Forecast

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Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. With Yahoo!, Compared to Silicon Valley, LA only has only about one-tenth of VC investments.

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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. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . Richard Rosenblatt. Leila Chirayath Janah. . gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm. Rick Heitzmann.

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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 investment, latin america, startups. .

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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! They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. I commented that many young entrepreneurs I talk to these days have a desire to “go plural&# and create an incubator.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. or the countless other successful startup firms. I plowed it back into 9 deals.