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JANUARY 27, 2014

in an IPO on the Nasdaq Capital Market. was spun out of Superconductor Technologies in 2012. The company says is it looking to trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "RESN". resonant semiconductor frontend filter rejection signal merger acquisition nasdaq resn suptech' Santa Barbara-based Resonant, Inc. ,

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -- Apps Alliance and MEDL Mobile Mixer. With both MMCF and Mobile Con 2012 in town we decided to throw a little "thing" to celebrate. Who will be there: Developers, Publishers, Executives and Investors that focus on the mobile market from San Diego and abroad. See [link].

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MAY 1, 2012

a provider of products for the fixed and mobile data network market, Allot announced this morning. The company said that the acquisition will be accretive on a quarterly basis by the end of 2012, contributing between $3.0 in revenues for the second half of 2012. in revenues for the second half of 2012.

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MARCH 9, 2012

The company said the acquisition will help with improved customer acquisition and retention of its current customer, allow it to target a new segment of consumers with new banking and payment products, as well as let it enter the mobile wallet, reward, and payment market. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2012

in the twelve months ended March 31, 2012. Ixia said the acquisition will help it become a "leading player" in the network visibility market. Ixia said that Anue had 2011 revenues of $40.5M, with revenues of $47.6M

Calabasas 157

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APRIL 4, 2018

Los Angeles-based Fullscreen announced this morning that it has acquired Reelio , the developer of an influencer marketing platform focused on the millennial and Gen Z market, helping brands, advertisers, and agencies identify social media influencers. Reelio was founded in 2012, and had been baed in New York.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Iirvine-based Broadcom announced this morning that it is in a deal to acquire NetLogic Microsystems , a developer of semiconductors for the networking market, in a deal worth approximately $3.7 The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2012.

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APRIL 22, 2013

Both companies develop power conversion and related products for the solar power market. Power-One has nearly 3,300 people spread across China, Italy, the US and Slovakia; the firm had sales of approximately $1 billion in 2012. powerone merger acquisition power supply solar inverter cleantech photovoltaic' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

Western Digital had acquired HGST back in March of 2012, but as a condition of approving the acquisition, China had essentially handcuffed the company's involvement in day to day operations in HGST.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 29, 2012

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 -- ACG 101's Annual MandA Update. Total merger and acquisition deal volume in 2011 increased 24% from 2010, with over 16,000 transactions aggregating to $1.1 Multiples for middle market companies remained relatively strong in 2011, at an average of 8.2x trillion in value.

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JULY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm headed by Frank Addante, has launched an offering for the mobile advertising market, the company said this morning. Rubicon said the new product comes from its May 2012 acquisition of Mobsmith.

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JANUARY 18, 2016

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Friday that it has acquired Demandforce , a developer of marketing software and services. Internet Brands acquired Demandforce from Intuit, which had acquired Demandforce back in 2012. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets. Look for competitors that have the same capabilities as you in a different market area, or for different customers. New products or services to existing customers.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 27, 2012

Thursday, May 3, 2012 -- LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: Achieving Home-Run MandA and Financing Outcomes. He will discuss current MandA and VC financing market dynamics, acquisition and financing interests of the large media and tech buyers and how to get on their radar.

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JUNE 27, 2019

In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Michael Greenberg: My co-founder, Emad Hasan, led the business marketing operations at Facebook. We spoke with Retina's CEO, Michael Greenberg , to learn more. What's next for you?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

However, around December of 2010 the firm began a series of acquisitions -- of a number of data backup provider, other EFAX providers, email marketing firms, unified communications, and more, culminating with the buy of Ziff Davis in November of 2012. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

What was Southern California's technology community most interested in 2012? numbers should be released in the next week for 2012. BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. As 2012 turned.

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APRIL 10, 2019

The Future Party was founded in 2012 by Boye Fajinmi, Francis Pollara, Layne Button, Paul Yurick, and Steven Haddadian. Financial details of the buy were not announced. According to the firms, The Future Party has more than 10,000 members across North America.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.”

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 3, 2016

The company has applied to list on the NASDAQ Global Market as PI. The IPO is being underwritten by RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Piper Jaffray,Needham & Company, and Cannacord Genuity. The IPO is a second try for Impinj; the company had tried for an IPO back in 2011-2012, but later withdrew those plans.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Vista-based AutoGenomics has filed for an IPO, saying that it is looking to raise up to $65M in a public offering on the NASDAQ Global Market. AutoGenomics said it had net income of $459,000 on net revenues of $8.69M for the first six months of 2012. The firm's IPO is being underwritten by Leerink Swann, Stephens Inc., READ MORE>>.

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.Net Marketing Acquisition 153

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JULY 20, 2016

The deal is a huge win for Southern California's e-commerce and subscription market. led by former MySpace CEo Mike Jones, which seeded Dollar Shave CLub back in 2012. Dollar Shave Club operates a subscription, razor and toiletries accessory business targeted at men. The company had raised around $147M in total funding. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Markets will stay irrational longer than companies stay solvent. It will lose separate branding by beginning of 2012, its management will depart shortly thereafter, and all operations will be dissolved by 2013. Everyone who furiously cheered on the acquisition in 2011 will say it was obvious in hindsight.

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Media Cloud Computing Press Examples 168

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

THQ said it has hired an investment banker to help it consider "strategic alternatives", in hopes of raising additional capital to bring a number of titles to market. for the three months ended September 30, 2012, down significantly from the similar quarter last year, when it had $146.0M in revenues.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

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. How profitable is my product or service?

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

And though the terms of the deal are not yet public Microsoft has big plans with the acquisition. Kurt DelBene, president, Office Division for Microsoft in a statement said ; “The acquisition of PPI allows us to draw on our complementary strengths, and we’re excited to accelerate this market evolution”.

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Screening Conference Acquisition Blogging 66

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. We bring value to those small guys who can't compete against a $60 million marketing budget. Really, we're the sales and marketing arm of those companies. So where are you now? You cannot grow your problems.

Startup 174

Startup Metrics Customer Custom 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2014

IPO market showed more activity than any other first quarter since 2000, with 64 companies raising $10.6 According to a 2012 study by PricewaterhouseCoopers , companies average $3.7 You better have lined up a major international expansion, some major acquisition candidates, or a wealth of unfilled orders.

Startup 94

Startup Entrepreneur Activity Acquisition 94

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What that's done, is it's create a large hit in this space, at the top right end of the market.

Software 100

Software Report Startup IBM 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. And of course they are also focused on the US Hispanic market. I was trying to be more analytical than critical.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. That''s why the IPO markets coming back is so critical. How about mergers and acquisitions? David Siemer: More generally, the M&A market is solid. Globalization is a big trend.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. It also is a burgeoning sector. When you get all that data and analyze it, you get interesting insights,” Sheik said.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). With the more popular Merger & Acquisition (M&A) exit strategy, the control stays with the new entity. After a record low of 39 U.S.

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Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 89