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

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For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny. If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal. What do you think will take Southern California''s technology community to the next level? It''s more a matter of time.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

socalTECH

Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video. In about 2005, I started looking at the local market, and realized that there are not lots of enterprise IT companies here, which is Palomar's focus. They've got some nice metrics behind them.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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