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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way.

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OC Technology Influencer Mixer & Summit 2011

Tech Coast Venture Network

April 25, 2011, Irvine, Calif — Tech Coast Venture Network (www.tcvn.org) is hosting the OC Technology Influencer Mixer & Summit 2011, an historic two-day event with partners CompTIA, the world’s largest technology association, the Technology Leadership Political Action Committee and Ingram Micro.

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Sell at the top? Avoid the race to zero!

Berkonomics

Those of us in the business of calculating (guessing) this mythical peak in value often make the same mistake as our entrepreneurs. He concluded that the sweet spot for valuation was in the $20–30 million sales price range, and that many, many times more deals were completed in that range than above $100 million in valuation at exit.

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Business 2011 - Optimism, But Heed the Lessons

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. A majority of small business leaders intend to be more aggressive in 2011 by implementing a range of actions to advance their businesses. Respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2011.

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Convertro Tracks Users Across Devices, Solves Cross-Device Ad Issues

socalTECH

Convertro , the online advertising analytics firm headed by serial entrepreneur Jeff Zwelling, said today that it has launched a new product to help marketers with that problem. So, how do marketers figure out if you're the same person to better target their ads? Convertro did not say how much the new features will cost to users.

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Avoid the race to zero…

Berkonomics

Those of us in the business of calculating (guessing) this mythical peak in value often make the same mistake as our entrepreneurs. He concluded that the sweet spot for valuation was in the $20–30 million sales price range, and that many, many times more deals were completed in that range than above $100 million in valuation at exit.

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Make It Work – the real story

Eric Greenspan

As an entrepreneur, my greatest lesson learned here was how difficult it is to find capital for a services business. From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. We sought capital just in case.

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