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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, according to Wessel, has grown by almost 65%.

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

socalTECH

What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. For the more questionable ones, ones with less sustainable differentiation, this time it''s a little tougher than a couple of years ago, and certainly much more so than 2006 and 2007.