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Sell at the top? Avoid the race to zero!

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Think of major companies, public and private, that have lost their shiny appeal over time, including Zinga, LivingSocial and Fisker in this generation – and Alta Vista in the last. Not so long ago, Basil Peters wrote his book, “Early Exits,” after analyzing 150 young companies and their exits.

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JETRO 4th Tuesday Technology Exchange Seminar

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 -- JETRO 4th Tuesday Technology Exchange Seminar. How International Tax and Transfer Pricing Impacts Your Global Business. Email stephen_tanaka@jetro.go.jp.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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Avoid the race to zero…

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] For young companies, often the question is whether to suffer a new round of dilution to stimulate growth, or to sell earlier and not share the (presumably) increased proceeds with additional investors.

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Goldstar Launches Nationwide Expansion

socalTECH

The firm, which is headed by Jim McCarthy, said that it will be in all of the top 25 US markets in 2011, starting with the addition of Atlanta, Sacramento, and Portland Oregon starting in Q4 of this year. The firm's deals are only available to members--who sign up for free--and are used by ticket marketers to fill out venues.

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News Corp. In Repeat With Sale To Local Tech Firm

socalTECH

spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a media property, runs it for about seven years, and then decides to unload that same property for a fraction of the price it paid to a Southern California technology--not media--company. Does this sound familiar? Well, could be. How about IGN ? in a $580M deal. READ MORE>>.

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Make It Work – the real story

Eric Greenspan

Make It Work sold its services in pre-paid hours, at a discount from our pay-as-you-go pricing. Since 2008, the company has been forced to lower it’s prices, from $120/hour to $80/hour. From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely.

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