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LA TECH SUMMIT Celebrates Los Angeles’s Phenomenal Growth

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Cornerstone on Demand brought together the area’s best & brightest for its fourth annual LA Tech Summit , once again hosted at the Fairmont. LACIncubator is now the largest clean tech incubator in the world, we're working to make it cheap & easy to launch a biz #latechsummit pic.twitter.com/5GbAI1D3bR.

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

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How about mergers and acquisitions? I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. 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. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. If you’re an entrepreneur make sure you watch the video for that segment alone. It’s awesome.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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