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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. 2012 has been a remarkably interesting year in terms of developments in technology. 12 major acquisitions this year putting it over 100 since 05. Finally, Google.

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j2 Global Launches $415M Hostile Bid for Carbonite

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j2 Global had attempted to acquire Carbonite before, in 2012. j2 Global--despite a low profile in the overall high tech sector--has been a ravenous acquirer, and has accumulated a huge line of cloud-based services (fax, email, backup, cloud apps, and much more) from across the world, and is also the owner of Ziff Davis.

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Realizing Value from Innovation

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Thursday, January 26, 2012 -- Realizing Value from Innovation. However, while most high tech, biotech, cleantech and sports companies have wonderful technologies, relatively few have good business models. To translate innovation into real value, you need both great technology and a great business model. See [link] (more)

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

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They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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

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One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? How about mergers and acquisitions? In 2012, half of all the M&A transactions were cross border, for the first time. acquisition merger exits interview capital venture banking investment siemer david' Globalization is a big trend.