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Know When to Hold 'Em, Know When to Fold 'Em.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012 -- Know When to Hold 'Em, Know When to Fold 'Em. By 2006, Mr. Boden had established the website as the 3rd largest website in Asia (behind only Google and Yahoo) and as one of the top 100 websites in the world. Meet Patrick Boden, founder of Badongo.com.

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Interview with Jon Waterman, Founder and CEO of Ad.net

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Jon Waterman: We envision ourselves today as a marketplace outside Google and Bing. Our core competency, historically, has been in the pay-to-click space, but we've focused completely outside of Google and outside of Bing. Talk about the market, when you say you're outside Google and Bing, explain what that means?

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YouTube Introduces its Own App for iPhone and iPod touch | Google Adds Editing to the iOS Drive App

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It also allows you to share on Google+, Facebook or text message in the app, as well as to Twitter and email. To make soup taste better, Google added that its working on an optimized version of the YouTube app for iPad to be launched in a few months. In Quarter 2 of 2012, Google ad revenues were $10.96 Social Videos.

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

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Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. Their only option is an IPO. There are just not buyers out there.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012.