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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012. When you look at the likes of Cisco, HP and Oracle (note they bought Sun) it seems a return to this model. 25 years ago you had the likes of IBM and Digital who sold end-to-end solutions including hardware, OS, applications and services.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22, 2012. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Spotlight: LA Tech Fall will take place Thursday, February 2, at 7pm. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA. 7:00 – 7:45pm – check-in.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. All of TriNet’s services are supported by a team of dedicated human capital consultants and experts, and enabled by best-in-class HR technology from Oracle-PeopleSoft. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m. What: Spotlight Series Event.

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

SoCal Delicious

October 5, 2012. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. 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. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

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So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. Jason himself had enjoyed “the art of the start” as I think Guy Kawasaki once coined.

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