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APRIL 12, 2017

Creativebug , the online educational video site for the arts and crafts market which was last owned by Otter Media , the joint venture between AT&T and The Chernin Group, has been acquired by Jo-Ann Stores , the arts and crafts retailer. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Santa Monica-based The Mobile Majority , the mobile advertising technology developer led by Rob Emrich, says it has acquired Gimbal , the Qualcomm spinout focused on mobile engagement and location intelligence in the retail market. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2020

L Squared said the sale is the fourth exit from its 2014 vintage year fund, and its third exit from the education market. L Squared Capital Partners had recapitalized Learners Edge in September of 2016; the private equity investors says it increased the company's revenues by more than 2.5x since that time. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2018

Joybird (Stitch Industries) was founded in 2014 by Alex Del Toro, Andres Hinostroza, Joshua Stellin and Christopher Stormer, and manufactures mid-century modern upholstered furniture, which it sells online through its own brand. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2015

AltheaDx--which originally filed confidentially for an IPO in July of 2014, and revealed its plans in December, said in its filing that the terms on the public marketplace are "not sufficiently attractive" to the company. AltheaDx had originally planned to IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market as IDGX. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2013

AeroVironment said it will "continue to focus on our fiscal 2014 plan to maintain our market leadership in Unmanned Aircraft Systems and electric transportation solutions." aerovironment engaged capital stock avav unmanned aircraft defense cleantech electric merger acquisition' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

Los Angeles-based financial automation software develper BlackLine continues to see its revenues grow, saying Thursday that its 2014, year-over-year revenues were up more than 50 percent. BlackLine said shortly after that equity injection that it hoped to hit the public markets within 18-20 months. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2018

Diversis has been the owner of BLUE since December of 2014 when it acquired BLUE from publicly held Matthews International. Diversis says its focus is on companies in the lower and middle markets. Esko is owned by Danaher, and develops software and hardware for package design. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity investor The Gores Group announced very late Thursday evening that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell Fotona Holdings , a manufacturer of high performance lasers for the medical, dental, and aesthetic market, to AGIC Capital. Financial details of the sale were not announced.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services. The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million. Now TakeLessons has completed another acquisition, buying Chromatik, a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of digital sheet music.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth.

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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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In 2014, we raised quite a bit of money from St. The company has grown about 200 percent since 2014, in terms of revenue. 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. Cloud, and really went full force.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2012

Rumors have been swirling around Agoura Hills-based THQ since this weekend, when a gaming industry analyst, Peter Skerritt, reported that the videogame maker was either looking for a buyer or shutting down its videogame development efforts, cancelling its 2014 lineup. as part of an "ongoing review" of its business.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

Central Desktop was acquired by PGI (NYSE: PGI) in 2014. We're going after the fat middle of the market. However, there's this huge middle area, where people are looking for account executives, customer success reps, account managers, enterprise reps, that is a big market. What is Sales Insider? It's very, very specific.

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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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JULY 16, 2015

The company--which is developing immunotherapy products for treating cancer, infectious diseases and inflammatory disease--said it has applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Market as NK. The IPO is being underwritten by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Jefferies LLC and Piper Jaffray & Co. plus MLV & Co.

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JULY 27, 2015

The IPO is being underwritten by BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities, Citigroup, BMO Capital Markets, Piper Jaffray, Wells Fargo Securities, and Roth Capital Partners. billion in net sales for 2014. The company says it has filed to trade as VZIO, but has yet to select an exchange. Vizio reported net income of $44.9M

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Oculus has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into funding VR content, and while the headset market is still small, developers have built plenty of games and experiences. If anything, the OculusVR acquisition in 2014 signaled that Facebook saw VR as a social final frontier. See full agenda here. Kickstarting an Industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2014

In the first quarter of 2014, the U.S. IPO market showed more activity than any other first quarter since 2000, with 64 companies raising $10.6 With 103 new filings during the quarter, the rest of 2014 is on track to keep up this record pace. Market volatility usually hits public companies first.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

It is no secret that the number of private companies with valuations in excess of one billion dollars has skyrocketed since the start of 2014. As show in CBInsight’s chart, the number of such “unicorns” created during the first half of 2014 was roughly equivalent to the number created during the prior three years.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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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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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

BioMarin Pharmaceutical took a $680 million gamble when it bought Prosensa in 2014 for its experimental Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment. a share, or a total of $680 million up front, in November 2014. BioMarin continued Prosensa’s plan after its acquisition. and Europe that Prosensa shareholders will now never see.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

But why did Ring succeed when the entire market kept saying that Nest was going to be the winner? Why did Ring become an enormous success when it produced a hardware product and the market keeps saying, “hardware is too difficult to scale?” Here are my views … 1. we were sold on the concept immediately. We weren’t sure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Expand the market for both. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone. Where your competitor isn''t really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/06/2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

That’s down from 69 in the first five months of 2015, and 115 over the same five-month period in 2014, according to Barrons. Concerns over valuations being reset to a new normal, and a soft exit market, are seen as key drivers. Market volatility usually hits public companies first. Analysts want escalating profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

For financial reasons alone, an IPO is a statistically rare phenomenon, happening just 275 times in 2014 , out of almost 500,000 startups. Private companies typically have an internal board of friendly owners, unlikely to be pressured by the media to consider an unfriendly tender offer from another major player in the market.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

“And at the other end is where you’ll typically see our larger investments and acquisitions,” Kashyap writes. Microsoft’s business development efforts are headed by executive vice president Peggy Johnson , who joined the company in 2014 after 24 years at Qualcomm. Nagraj Kashyap (photo courtesy of Qualcomm).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Head to the beach on the first weekend of summer to celebrate LA’s digital innovators in tech, startups, entertainment, fashion, marketing, and more! Several large acquisitions have included Oculus being acquired by Facebook for $2B, Maker Studios acquisition by Disney for more than $500M, and more.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market. RCAP had purportedly valued Docupace at over $75 million when they acquired a majority interest in the company in September 2014. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Both have worked.Google reached $1 billion in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention and high revenue per employee. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

In light of a less than savory PR landscape, I saw this event to be an important call to attention to the developements towards the Bitcoin industry for 2014, as well as geographically important gathering of minds and enthusiasts in the space. Setting Up 2014. Some rapid fire discussion points. Bitcoin specific job boards.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2014

From huge acquisitions to fast moving VC deals and product development (hardware + software), it appears as if we’re at the starting line of a connected home future. For iPhone users, the native app will be available in Summer 2014 – for now, you can set up your system through Airplay. Music, Anywhere in Your Home.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

billion dollar acquisition by LinkedIn to Bessemer’s substantial investment in ProCore , AppFolio ’s recent IPO filing and Sonos ’ $130 million secondary, the Santa Barbara tech scene is unquestionably on fire. Not satisfied with the quality of surf wax currently on the market, he decided to make his own. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

Evoke Pharma is taking a hit in the markets after announcing a Phase 3 trial on a gastroinetestinal drug for diabetes patients failed to meet its goals. Actavis is now known as Allergan (NYSE: AGN ), adopting the name following its acquisition of that company last year. per share as of 11:30 a.m. in New York.

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