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Happy Customers Make Gender Bias (Nearly) Irrelevant

InfoChachkie

A 2012 Dow Jones'' report entitled Women At The Wheel encompassed 15-years of data on venture-backed startups. In a similar vein, a 2012 study by the Kauffman Foundation noted that women account for only 10% of all the founders of high-tech startups. During the period studied, only "1.3% What Gives? Bias Beyond Women.

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

socalTECH

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? In 2012, half of all the M&A transactions were cross border, for the first time. For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny. They''re much more aggressive buying companies for the first time.