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

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There''s tons of activity, and lots of companies getting funded. There have been a lot of new angel investors coming out of the woodwork, and lots of companies getting pretty good funding and valuation. We invest globally, with 20 percent of our funds outside the U.S., I think the incubators have a lot to do with it.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. What do you invest in?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Klout Puts Metrics Into Social Media Management - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , May 21, 2010 I really like klout.com for three good reasons: 1.) I Be specific.

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