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After pulling in around $80 million last year in revenue, LA’s StackCommerce is acquired by TPG’s Integrated Media Company

TechCrunch LA

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. We feel fortunate to partner with a team that has such deep expertise in commerce and technology.

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Walmart Brings Virtual Reality to Retail With Purchase of Spatialand

Xconomy

Walmart’s tech incubator in Silicon Valley, Store No 8, has acquired Spatialand , a virtual reality software firm, as its third portfolio company. Venice, CA-based Spatialand worked with Walmart on a project last year, an experience that led to the acquisition, according to the blog post. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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7 Entrepreneur Stages Help You Assess Your Progress

Startup Professionals Musings

He saw the potential of e-commerce, and drove Amazon to success. This place is often called an incubator or accelerator, or just a group of peers. One of the most successful incubators is Y Combinator in Silicon Valley. The shift – break away from dreaming to action. This stage is where I see the most people stuck.

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Mike Jones of Science Inc, On Exits And Finding The Right Entrepreneurs

socalTECH

(www.science-inc.com), the startup �studio� led by former MySpace CEO and technology veteran Mike Jones , just saw its third acquisition out of its portfolio this year�the acquisition of FameBit by Google/Youtube. What made these three companies successful acquisitions out of all your companies?

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

socalTECH

How about mergers and acquisitions? I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. E-commerce is a great example. There are a ton of e-commerce companies, and they''ve been the highest recipient of seed and A-round investments. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Jonathan Shokrian and Barak Diskin, MeUndies

socalTECH

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MeUndies , debuted its subscription, e-commerce service for underwear and other basics. I understood acquisitions, business, fashion, and how to unite business with passion. The firm is one of the companies which has recently emerged from Science, Inc., Why underwear?

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

Tech Zulu Event

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.