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Tech Coast Angels Invests $4.5M In First Half Of 2012

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The Tech Coast Angels said today that it has totalled up its investments for the first half of 2012, and found that it invested $4,571,000 in direct investments--as part of $10M in funding--for 17 companies. The group said that investments were fairly consistent compared with the same period in 2011, when it invested $4.4M

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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What was Southern California's technology community most interested in 2012? Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. venture capital exits in. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. As 2012 turned. As part of our.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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What Future for Accelerators?

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I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. We had a specific goal in mind.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

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is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000.

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

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What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. In 2012, half of all the M&A transactions were cross border, for the first time. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. But, most did not file their S-1''s. Globalization is a big trend.