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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

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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. Through its platform publishers can make between 15% to 20% of gross compared with 5% on an affiliate marketing site.

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

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(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. They had been huge fans of the platform, and I think they had a super, genuine connection with Youtube, thus with Google.

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BloomNation's Goal To Empower Your Local Florist, And Improve Flower Delivery

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Farbod Shoraka: My background is actually in mergers and acquisition advisory. It''s everything they need to thrive in the e-commerce world, and we hand it to them with a simple, 30-second signup on BloomNation. It''s more about connecting then with customer, than BloomNation sending orders through the platform.

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Interview with Jonathan Shokrian and Barak Diskin, MeUndies

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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

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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.

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500 Startups Presents Bitcoinference

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The Bitcoinference served as day 1 of 2 for 500 Startups’ “Commercism” series, with an official agenda that covered industry happenings, social dynamics, and a look into the investment environment. Dan, now named as Product Manager for the Blockchain acquired Zeroblock apps, tells the audience about life after acquisition.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

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Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Everybody is Selling Something: The Arrival of "Me-Commerce". The "old school" models of e-commerce, as dominated by bulky hosted storefron. Entrepreneurism / Monetization e-commerce, monetization, Selling. . Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce.

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