socalTECH

JULY 26, 2010

Newport Beach-based chip provider Mindspeed Technologies said this morning that it has sold off a number of its patents in a $10M intellectual property sale. According to Mindspeed, the "legacy" patent sale includes $7.5M recorded in its fiscal fourth quarter 2010 revenues, and $2.5M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

PC Mall said that eCost had approximately $76M in sales for the 12 months ending September 30, 2010, and that it also acquired approximately $1M in inventory with the acquisition. READ MORE>>.

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Torrance Entertainment Acquisition Sales 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial details of the sale were not annouced. OpenGate Capital had acquired Getronics LATAM in 2010. The company claimed the exit provides 11 times invested capital for the firm. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Financial details of the sale were not announced. Vision Solutions had acquired Double-Take in 2010, only a few short months before it was acquried by Clearlake Capital. Vision Solutions is owned by Santa Monica's Clearlake Capital. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Los Angeles-based HauteLook , the flash sales site run by Adam Bernhard, has been acquired by Nordstrom for up to $270M. Nordstrom said the buy will enable it to participate in the fast-growing private sale marketplace. HauteLook was venture backed by Insight Venture Partners, which just invested $31M in the company in June of 2010.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In further details on the FAN deal, Addante also said that it has not acquired the advertising sales team at FAN, saying that it "is not, and will not be, an ad network." Intead, the firm is using FAN's acquisition to add around 100 employees from FAN as part of its engineering and product team. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

The long, turbulent history of the video-on-demand technology developed by former Marina Del Rey-based CinemaNow continues today, after current owner Rovi Corporation said Thursday afternoon that it plans to pursue a sale of its Rovi Entertainment Stores business--the remains of CinemaNow.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Teledyne said DALSA had sales of CAD $201 million for the twelve months ended September 30, 2010. DALSA has approximately 1,000 employees worldwide, and develops high-resolution, high-performance CCD and CMOS imaging sensors, electronic digital cameras and image processing software. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

The long, turbulent history of the video-on-demand technology developed by former Marina Del Rey-based CinemaNow continues today, after current owner Rovi Corporation said Thursday afternoon that it plans to pursue a sale of its Rovi Entertainment Stores business--the remains of CinemaNow.

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Marina Del Rey Technology Hulu Entertainment 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

During my tenure at Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting), one of my responsibilities was leading our online marketing, a role I retained until our eventual acquisition by Citrix. When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo!

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

CapLinked says the round of funding and new appointment are an advancement in their move to displace the legacy left by Virtual Data Room (VDR) with their intuitive new product for coordinating on complex business deals such as asset sales, financings, and mergers and acquisitions. Founded in 2010 by Eric M.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

We were acquired in June of 2010, and it's been 21 months now, almost two years. We pride ourselves as being very efficient, and have been a relatively small enteprise for the size of our sales. At the time of the acquisition, we had 150 employees. How has life under Rakuten been? Neel Grover: It's been great.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

CapLinked’s online platform helps companies manage and close complex business transactions such as asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions. Founded in 2010 by Eric M. Manage & Close Complex Business Transactions.

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Yammer Journal Networking Software 72

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Clothes are very personal and its really a pain to find stuff thats going to look good on you.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

After a year in which Biogen’s share price has fallen by more than a third and one of its top drug prospects failed, Scangos, who has led the company since 2010, has announced plans to step down. Scangos, the former head of Exelixis (NASDAQ: EXEL ), was named Biogen’s CEO in 2010 during a rocky time.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

The company also said it is looking to divest it infrastructure business units in the new term, and hired an investment banker to manage the sale. NextWave said that the debt will go towards funding its operations into 2010. The company said the restructuring included a reduction in workforce by over 20 percent. READ MORE>>

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc., Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

For instance, engineers will typically evaluate ideas differently than people engaged in sales, who in turn will consider ideas from a different vantage point from those responsible for product development and marketing. A Mac-compatible version of GoToMyPC was not released until 2010. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Especially with DVD sales declining, we offer an interesting way to help studios. We've seen the proliferation of streaming through Netflix, Amazon, and others, and as people get into the streaming features business, that income can help make up the income being lost in DVD sales. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. The world’s best brains are on sale. Friedman again in this weekend’s (Apr 3, 2010) NYTimes: “Between 1980 and 2005, virtually all net new jobs created in the U.S. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. You can imagine the complexities. Let’s buy more!&#.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We've also hired another VP of Sales, brought on a new CTO, who started ZigBee, Matt Perkins, and we are going to get some headcount growth--though we're planning to keep that under 50. I think that there might be cash toward the end of 2010 or 2011, where IPOs might be reasonable.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Fun Fact: The idea behind DataCulture started in 2010 when Gurudatt and Karthik connected on Twitter and spent a few hours talking about how data could change the world. B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects.

Startup 40

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

-Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Total raised: $16.0mm.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. ► October (1) New Video!

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Frank Addante

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. ► October (1) New Video!

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. The time zones, the travel, 2 kids, pressure, managing the sales process, speaking at conferences Somehow I had yo-yo’d back to where I was previously.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. ► October (1) New Video!

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development CTO Hire Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. ► October (1) New Video!

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup .Net Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. ► October (1) New Video!

Startup 40

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. ► October (1) New Video!

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378