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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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He thinks demand for IPOs (from buyers) remains high while supply is low because Sarbanes Oxley amongst other things has made less CEOs want to go public. More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012. Pure Digital to Cisco) but that even the 2nd largest will get much lover valuations.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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REACH NeXT Alumni Gets Into 500 Startups! | Batch 15 Announced

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Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. Fun fact: iWaboo Group was founded in 2012 as a pure retail company that owned gadget concept stores in Italy. On-Demand Lawn Care and Snow Plowing. AngelList: [link].

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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October 5, 2012. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. I predict this will come before the end of 2012. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc.