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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Los Angeles-based Internet services and online publishing giant j2 Global says it has acquired four more companies, all completed in the third quarter of 2016. Financial details of those acquisitions were not announced. Financial details of those acquisitions were not announced.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

The company is selling 4,000,000 shares of its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as ANAB. The IPO follows one of the most active IPO and mergers and acquisitions years for Southern California last year, in 2016, and comes ahead of an anticipated IPO announcement for Venice-based Snap, Inc. as early as Thursday.

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MARCH 17, 2017

for the quarter ended December 31, 2016. The company says it has been seeing competition in the data storage industry which has "create pressure" on maintaining market share, saying that "market headwinds" have been challenging the company. According to Qualstar, it had a loss of $0.4 million on revenues of $2.2M

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

j2 Global said it acquired Fonebox , Everyday Health , CudaMail , Unified eMail , Abaxio , and GreenFax , all during Q4 of 2016. The terms of the remainder of the acquisition were not announced by the company. j2 Global and Everyday Health had announced in September that j2 Global would pay $10.50 READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The financing brings the previously under-the-radar company’s total raised to $65 million since its 2016 inception. So far, its growth has been “completely organic,” with no marketing team, according to the CEO. Our cost of customer acquisition is very low relative to a lot of fintechs,” he said.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

in 2016, in a deal then reported as worth less than $100M. Machinima first started developing its gaming-related content back around 2008, and helped usher in a healthy investment market for multi-channel-networks, companies which aggregated multiple YouTube creators and channels into a single media company.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

Irvine-based NextGen Healthcare Information Systems , a provider of electronic health records software which is owned by Quality Systems, said this morning that it has agreed to acquire Entrada , a Nashville-based provider of cloud-based mobile apps for the electronic health records (EHR) market. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2020

FMG Suite is a developer of cloud-based marketing automation software specifically for financial services professionals and advisors. K1 acquired FMG Suite back in 2016, and since there rolled up five other companies into FMG Suite, Advisor Launchpad, Advisors Assistant, Agency Revolution, MarketingPro and Platinum Advisor Strategies.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Indeed, part of the reason for the financing is to accelerate the pace of its acquisitions and investments into new game development studios, according to chief executive, Walter Driver. “The barrier to entry from independent studios is to find product-market fit,” says Driver.

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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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2020

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 L Squared said the sale is the fourth exit from its 2014 vintage year fund, and its third exit from the education market. since that time. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to OpenGate Capital, it acquired Power Partners in January of 2016, via its first, institutional fund. Power Partners is a manufacturer of pole and pad-mounted distribution transformers for the utility, industrial, and commercial market. Power Partners is based in Athens, Georgia, and had approximately 370 employees.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2018

Lasergen , a startup developing technology for the DNA sequencing market--and which has an office in San Diego--has been acquired by Agilent Technologies for $105M, the two said late Tuesday. Agilent already owned a 48 percent ownership stake in Lasergen, as part of an investment it made in March of 2016.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Some of the early investors in Woodland Hills-based accounting software developer BlackLine are looking for some liquidity from their investments, more than a year since BlackLine's October 2016 IPO, and plan to sell around 4,500,000 shares of their stock. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Teledyne said that e2v had asles of 236 million pounds for the year ended March 31, 2016. Teledyne said that e2v had asles of 236 million pounds for the year ended March 31, 2016. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Los Angeles-based digital marketer Connexity has acquired consumer data collection company Hitwise , from parent company Experian , the company said this morning. STG and Connexity said they will be separating the two businesses throughout 2016. The two combined deals were worth $47M plus up to $5M in earnout. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2018

According to BlackLine, the shares in the offering are being sold by Silver Lake Sumeru, investment funds affiliated with ICONIQ, Therese Tucker, the company's CEO and founder; and Mario Spanicciati, the company's Chief Marketing Officer. BlackLine had its IPO in October of 2016. Silver Lake Sumeru is looking to sell around 6.1M

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2016

NantHealth said it intends to list on the NASDAQ Global Market as NH. The filing is the first IPO filing for a Southern California technology firm so far in 2016. The IPO is being underwritten by Jeffries, Cowen and Company, First Analysis Securities Co., NantHealth reported a net loss of $71.6M in total revenues for 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Side Note : Upfront has hired Kerry Bennett as a member of our executive management team to run marketing – please follow her on Twitter here ].

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2016

billion in Q1 of 2016--the weakest first quarter of the year since 2009. The report noted concerns about a "global economic slowdown, falling oil prices and turbulent equity markets." The report, from Ernst & Young, said that companies are likely exploring other options or waiting for confidence to return for their IPOs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Investors are looking for a concise description of your product or service without technical jargon or fuzzy marketing terms with value quantified in customer terms. How big and growing is the total market and your target segment? They like billion-dollar markets with double-digit growth rates. It’s really not that difficult.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. In summary, it really has been an amazing year and we look forward to supporting additional compelling software companies in 2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly. Measurements set on internal objectives, rather than market traction. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/24/2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. Draft is a Fantasy Sports app designed for the mobile world and the busy lifestyle founded by Jeremy Levine.

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socalTECH

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. This team of specialist consultants is then easily tuned as your strategy evolves based on the market. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 10/25/2016. Focus on deliverables and skills required right now. It’s here to stay.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In 2016, that represented a couple of unique concepts. As time has gone on, the company then shifted into the ridesharing market, essentially operating as a car availability platform for Uber and Lyft drivers. One, was it allowed you to get a used car subscription with your phone.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. It sells into a horizontal market segment which is conscribed enough that many of the professionals know each other, which makes its referral program particularly effective. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

But in my experience as a startup advisor, too many entrepreneurs get stuck there, and always find excuses for not really exploring mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and alliance alternatives. For example, at any given moment in your business, you may be limited by development, marketing, or sales. Think outside the box.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

That’s a sharp contrast to 2016, when uncertainty and doubt about the economy and presidential election clouded U.S. Eighty companies raised a total of $22 billion on U.S. exchanges during the first half of 2017, according to the report EY Global IPO Trends. In the first half of last year, EY found that 44 IPOs raised a total of just $6.96

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

The right channel for marketing and distribution is one of the basic “four Ps” of business (product, promotion, price and placement). For growing revenue and market share, it’s a key element of your overall strategy, and one that can make or break you. In many product areas, especially retail, the channel is the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

Some business successes can be attributed to luck, timing, or available funding, but in this case most agree that Gary was simply a marketing genius and he created his own market through creative advertising, emotional appeal and exclusivity. Similarly, mentioning viral marketing without specifics won’t assure fundability.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

— LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. Packed house for startup marketing panel at #latechsummit pic.twitter.com/m69V5KEJhr.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

In the enterprise environment, Jack Welch led GE through 600 acquisitions in emerging markets, to a market value of $280 billion. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 08/27/2016. We all know examples on a smaller scale in every organization. What’s holding you back from being a superstar in your business?

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

For 2015, there were 133 information security M&A deals, according to 451 Research’s Tech M&A Outlook 2016. In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market. It’s why this market segment is so attractive to venture investors. What we’ve also seen is the increase in M&A. Why is this happening?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2016

A focus on business execution certainly includes selecting the right idea and developing a marketable solution, but it also requires selecting a viable target market, attracting customers, winning against competition, and delivering a value proposition which is attractive to customers as well as the business.

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