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JUNE 14, 2010

Agoura Hills-based videogame maker THQ has drastically lowered its sales guidance, saying early this morning that it has updated fiscal guidance for its fiscal first quarter ending June 30th and fiscal year ending March 31, 2011, due to "lower than anticipated sales" of its title UFC Undisputed 2010, plus a strengthening US dollar.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MAY 15, 2011

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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * 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. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.

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MAY 6, 2014

Epicor Software , the supply chain management software company whose roots are in Orange County, has been put up for sale by private equity firm Apax Partners, according to reports Tuesday. billion, and has hired investment banking firm Jeffries to handle the sale. Apax paid $976M for Epicor back in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 -- Get Your Sales Department To Work With You, Not Against You. See [link] (more)

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

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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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. Not so long ago, Basil Peters wrote his book, “Early Exits,” after analyzing 150 young companies and their exits.

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Pricing Invest Equity Entrepreneur 156

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In June of 2011, MySpace was sold for a mere $35M to another, Southern California technology firm-- Specific Media , which has since been looking to remake MySpace with the help of Justin Timberlake. in a $580M deal.

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News Southern California Sales Los Angeles 159

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APRIL 23, 2013

MarketShare develops technology used to help with understanding the payoff of investments across a company''s marketing and sales effort, including TV, print, display, search, video, social media, website, PR, and other efforts. Elevation Partners invested in MarketShare in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2011

Oversee.net said its total private sales from the aftermarket division was more than $11M. The $1.5M+ price looks to be the highest published domain name sale in 2011 so far, based on domain name sales tracking from DNJournal. No details on the buyer or financial terms were announced.

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JULY 29, 2013

Financial terms of the sale were not announced. Local Corporation said that nCrowd has acquired both the Spreebird business and all related assets, as the company has decided to exit from the direct SMB sales market. Local Corporation launched its Spreebird daily deals service in 2011, at the height of the daily deals craze.

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Sales Acquisition Marketing Services 147

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Martell has been COO of the company since 2014, and joined the company in 2011 as CFO. He previously also had served at Western Institutional Review Board, Advantage Sales and Marketing and Information Services Group, Inc, along with ACNielsen Corporation. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast Networks , the content delivery network (CDN) provider headed by Alex Kazerani, said today that it doubled its annual revenues and headcount in 2011, over its 2010 numbers. EdgeCast said it added more than a thousand customers in 2011, including such sites as DailyMotion, Imgur, and posterous.

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Santa Monica Content Networking Sales 159

socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Guidance said that Ackerman had been head of worldwide sales and customer success for ServiceSource, heading up those efforts as that company grew from $25M to $285M in revenues, and through that company''s IPO in 2011. Ackerman joins the company from ServiceSource, and also had served at WNS North America and Exult. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2013

A report Wednesday afternoon says that Los Angeles-based streaming media site Hulu has hired investment banking firm Guggenheim Partners, to advise the firm on a sale. Guggenheim is the same firm that attempted to sell Hulu in 2011.

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Hulu Report Company Companies 189

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Online real estate startup Zillow , which operates a major sales center in Irvine, is the target of an employment lawsuit which alleges the company created a "adult frat house culture" at the location. According to the lawsuit, a sales consultant at the company--who was fired in August--faced "repeated sexual overtures" from male supervisors.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2016

domain name sold to startup incubator eCompanies, transformed into a $345M sale to R.H. Donnelly in 2007 by Jake Winebaum, turned over to Dex.com after the sale, and eventually shut down, but restarted after a purchase by JMI Equity and Resource Nation in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Incubator Guide Equity 100

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JANUARY 6, 2012

San Luise Obispo-based Shopatron , the developer of e-commerce software for brand manufacturers, reports today that it added a total of 85 new clients in the sporting goods industry during 2011. The firm said those clients included K2, Rossignol, Powderhorn, Quickpoles, Academy Snowboard, and Bolle, among many others.

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Commerce Sales Competition Report 196

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Affymetrix said it is paying $330M in cash to acquire eBioscience, in a deal that is expected to close late in Q4 of 2011. Affymetrix said that it expects 2011 sales from eBioScience to exceed $70M. eBioscience was founded in 1999. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Research Sales Develop 133

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

The layoffs--first reported by PlugInCars--apprently included a "substantial part" of its sales and marketing staff. It looks like Southern California's emerging electric automobile industry has definitively hit the skids, as Santa Monica-based electric auto developer Coda Automotive laid off 50 employees Tuesday. READ MORE>>.

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Layoffs Southern California Santa Monica News 157

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MARCH 22, 2012

The firm, which announced a deal to distriute its clients' listing to Travelocity in July of 2011, said that its hotel clients are saw a 108 percent increase in number of room nights booked, and a 94 percent increase in sales since the deal was made last year.

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Pasadena Sites Platform Sales 199

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Financial terms of the sale were not announced. Vicente Capital said that the sale was a "great outocme" for the fund, representing a 5X return for the 2000-vintage fund. Vermont Composites was based in Bennington, Vermont, and is expecting sales of $32M for 2011. READ MORE>>.

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Sales Los Angeles Capital Funding 140

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Weiss retired from Disney in 2011. Ryan Steelberg, along with his brother, are best known for their sale of their last company, dMarc, to Google. Brand Affinity Technologies runs such sites as Fantapper , and also recently acquired the fan photography business of Printroom. READ MORE>>.

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Technology Google Sales Sites 153

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

the Campbell-based operator of Realtor.com and Move.com, said Thursday along with AOL that Move has been given the exclusive rights to power AOL's Real Estate homes for sale search. The new AOL Real Estate search will launch in the second half of 2011. Move, Inc. , Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Thousand Oaks Sales Content 185

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JULY 22, 2013

If you were in sales, you either ran ACT!, and Goldmine faded away, no longer the two kings of the sales CRM world. So far, Nimble has the edge, as the Santa Monica company has been offering up its products to the market since 2011, and Contatta just announced the company and has yet to launch its own software.

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Funding SaaS Santa Monica Customer 222

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 15, 2016

In another chapter in the brand-that-wouldn't-disappear, Napster , the music streaming service brand which, for awhile, was based in Los Angeles, is coming back -- this time, as a rebrand of Seattle-based streaming music service Rhapsody. Rhapsody said on Tuesday that. it will rebrand as Napster sometime this Summer.

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Los Angeles Services Sales Angel 100

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APRIL 17, 2013

X1 Discovery has recently been expanding its enterprise ambitions, having been spun out from consumer-focused X1 back in 2011. discovery idealab electronic ediscovery software channel sales distributor ingram micro' X1 Discovery says it now has over 300,000 end-users. READ MORE>>.

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Idealab Pasadena Software Sales 138

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2012

Total online holiday shopping for the November to December 2011 season totaled $37.2 The online sales far outpaced spending at traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, who saw around a 4 percent growth this holiday season. billion, according to numbers released by comScore Wednesday. billion--being spent on Cyber Monday.

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Sales 140

socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2012

Gores said that Elo Touch Solutions had sales of $413M in fiscal 2011. Los Angeles-based The Gores Group , the private equity investment firm, reported this morning that it has completed its acquisition of touch screen technology provider TE Connectivity. The deal was worth $380M in cash. Elo Touch was based in Menlo Park, California.

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Screening Company Companies Equity 140

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

Nasty Gal is led by Sophia Amoruso, who started the company selling vintage clothing on eBay in 2006; the company says its now had over $28M in revenues in 2011, with revenues increasing around 500 percent each year. The brand says 35 percent of its sales occur outside of the US, and that it now has over 150,000 customers in 50 countries.

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Sales Los Angeles Design Funding 145

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MARCH 7, 2011

had sued NBC over a failed domain name sale back in May of 2010, after it said NBC Universal agreed to sell the company Women.com and Women.net in via domain name broker Sedo. James Otero has set a trial date of December 13, 2011. Ventures said that Judge S.

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Tsavo Sales Email Los Angeles 203

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

The business is headquartered in Menlo Park, and had sales of $413M in fiscal 2011, according to Gores. Gores said it acquired TE Connectivity's Touch Solutions business, which supplies touch screens, touch monitors and all-in-one touch computers, under the Elo TouchSystems brand. READ MORE>>.

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Screening Equity Los Angeles Sales 159

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Somaxon had 12 months net sales of approximately $11.7M The company has been looking for a buyer since December of 2011, when it drastically cut its staff and said it had hired an investment banker. According to the two companies, Pernix will acquire Somaxon in a stock-for-stock transaction worth a total of $25M in total equity.

San Diego 147

San Diego .Net Equity Acquisition 147

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 which will be reported in its first quarter of 2011. READ MORE>>.

Patents 140

Patents Sales Acquisition Report 140

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

in its 2011 fiscal year. In explaining the sale, ValueClick said that Search123 has been "a small business" for the company and does not fit with its long-term strategy. ValueClick said that Search123 had revenues of $31.4M READ MORE>>.

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Westlake Village Paid Search Sales Services 150

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Thursday, September 15, 2011 -- Business Apps Reign King Thinking Beyond the Browser. Marketing and Sales Executives Society. Your sales team is also becoming app-centric. The new web is here. And it's dramatically different from the browser-based web we all know and love. See [link] (more)

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Technology Council TCOSC Web Sales 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software , which develops software for the wireless industry, said late Tuesday evening that it is suspending its 2011 annual revenue guidance, and will withdraw from a investment conference this week, after it says orders from a "key customer" will fall below expected levels. READ MORE>>.

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Custom Customer Conference Mobile 124