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ELC Technologies Acquired By Pourzanjani, Rahmat

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Pourzanjani founded PriceGrabber and sold it to Experian in 2005 for $485M, and is among one of the active angel investors in Los Angeles. Rahmat was CEO of Tom's Hardware, which he sold to BestofMedia in 2007. As part of the acquisition, ELC founder Siegel joins venture capital firm Accel Partners in London, as a venture partner.

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First Quarter IPOs Beat All Of 2009

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According to Dow Jones, those eight IPOs matched the same number of IPOs throughout all of 2009, and made it the most active quarter for venture-backed company IPOs since Q4 of 2007. The IPO activity in Q1 was a notable improvement from last year, when exactly zero venture-backed companies went public.

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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007. Tags: internet brands growth merger acquisition private. The firm's stock had held its own, having recovered so far from last year's market downturn. READ MORE>>.

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

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We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. How about mergers and acquisitions? 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. READ MORE>>.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. Maybe this meme will help.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities are focused in the areas of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, games, gambling, ad tech and payments. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. We were in the center of the activity and thus would soon race against everyone else, many with much deeper pockets. doing sports, and many other activities. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’