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JUNE 28, 2021

Santa Barbara-based supply chain software developer QAD has entered into a $2 billion acquisition deal with private equity investor Thoma Bravo, the company said on Monday. The take-private deal will result in QAD no longer trading on public markets. According to QAD, its shareholders will receive $87.50

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MARCH 31, 2021

San Diego-based Ascent Funding, a provider of student loans, says it is targeting the coding bootcamp market, with a new set of loans for those programs. Coding bootcamps--which offer short term training on technical skills, such as software development--have become popular in recent years to gain practical experience in technical fields.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote. (If Why do you think that performance marketing is the right fit for DTC?

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MARCH 18, 2014

Irvine-based Bitvore , a startup developing big data and intelligence-gathering software which pulls information from both public and private data sources for businesses, said this morning that it has closed a $4.5M, Series A funding round. Bitvore, led by Jeff Curie, said that it has developed a. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Many have seen the acquisition as an attempt to fight back against Shopify's rampant growth during the coronavirus pandemic. The Amazon/Selz Acquisition. To put it simply, Amazon is getting instant access to a market it used to operate in. Amazon's acquisition of Selz doesn't represent a dramatic change to its business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And we wanted a head of global marketing. RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based fintech startup Dave says it expects an acquisition by special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings III to occur in January, after approval of a special proxy by VPCC. The app developer says it helps customers budget, avoid overdraft fees, find work and build credit.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Goleta-based gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductor developer Transphorm announced this morning that it has launched into the public markets, via the Over-The-Counter (OTC) market. The move is somewhat unusual for a technology startup here, where the OTC market is mostly eyed with suspicion.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Los Angeles-based electric automobile developer Faradyay Future is hoping to make a move to the public markets, via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), according to reports. The company's CEO, Carsten Brietfield, disclosed the possibility of the SPAC move on Monday. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Irvine-based NextGen Healthcare , a provider of software for the medical, behavioral and dental provider market, has acquired Medfusion , a developer of "patient experience" software, in a deal worth $43M in cash, the company announced this morning. NextGen Healthcare said it expects the acquisition to close in early December 2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. Of if your VP Sales isn’t complaining about marketing she’s trying to get the function reporting to her. Marketing of course often feels the opposite. More developers?

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MARCH 11, 2014

We know the perceptions you have of our market from our past. We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market. AOL committed to keeping the team in LA after the acquisition and in building a deeper technology team in town.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

The other side of the business is a new monthly subscription service for stylists that helps them market their handcrafted wigs, beauty and other digital products and services. Winters explained that the driver for the new funding was technology and product development on the marketplace, marketing and stylist acquisition.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2021

Los Angeles-based banking app developer Dave said this morning that it is going public, via a merger with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings III, Inc., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsred by Victory Park Capital.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Aliso Viejo-based indie Semiconductor, a developer of semiconductors for the automotive industry, says it has signed a definitive agreement to acquired TeraXion, a designer and manufacturer of photonic components. According to indie, the acquisition will help it in the rapidly growing LiDAR market.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Among the announcements at the demo day were the funding of smartphone toy company SnowShoe , and an acquisition of Smart Toy , a developer of an interactive toy. The Disney Accelerator said that Smart Toy was acquired by Los Angeles-based children''s product firm Cartwheel Kids, and that SnowShoe raised $2.2M

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. Customer Acquisition. For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. That’s not acceptable. But what is industry standard? Is it 4/1,000?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Los Angeles-based venture investor Wavemaker Partners has seen one of its portfolio companies hit the public markets, albeit via an unusual, reverse merger arrangement. Stellar is a so-called "blank check acquisition company" specifically designed to for reverse mergers.

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APRIL 13, 2021

and Yorktown Partners LLC, and develops, constructs, and operates renewable power and storage projects for the commercial and industrial market. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Catalyze is backed by EnCap Investments, L.P.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

The concept of “ force multipliers ” originally was developed in military science, but certainly applies equally well to business. In my role of business advisor to startups, I often recommend these to increase initial brand identity and market penetration. Of course, such actions are equally applicable to businesses at any stage.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

We also built two very high-quality mobile apps that we were experimenting with in terms of building better customer acquisition toools. I couldn’t be more enthusiastic about the outcome of the combined company and its products in the market. Startup Lessons Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures'

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

SketchAR — this Lithuanian company is developing an AI-based mobile app for teaching drawing using augmented reality. Stipop — a Seoul-based sticker API developer with a library of over 100,000 stickers created by 5,000 artists. The latest cohort from Snap’s Yellow accelerator.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Business Development - Biz Dev is hard. Customer Acquisition - I left customer acquisition for last intentionally. In the write up of our success I was quoted as saying, “If I had $1 dollar left to spend on marketing I would put it to PR.” ” You get the call. Ironic, of course. I promise.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

“What we are seeing is that there’s a significant appetite from public market investors to interactive entertainment as a category,” said Scopely co-chief executive Walter Driver. While that doesn’t mean developing for augmented reality or virtual reality hardware yet, Driver doesn’t rule it out.

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MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

Now the five-year-old firm, with newly found significant capital in the bank , is attempting to replicate its success in international markets. On Tuesday, Haptik announced it has acqui-hired Convrg, a Los Angeles-based startup that develops chatbots, to serve customers in North America. 60% of all software is bought in the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” As I like to say, “If you’re really on to an enormous idea then other people in the market are going to spot that and want to compete with you.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

“Our team couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to join Fastly to continue to drive forward security protections that empower developers. Fastly was founded to meet developers’ need for greater visibility and control.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

There''s been a subtle--but very significant shift--in the solar power market in recent years, particularly in California, where it''s actually cheaper in many cases to lease solar panels on your roof, than to pay the power company. I''ve been in the power utility sector for many years, developing power plants and utility assets.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We''ve spent the past year and a half working with two of seven board-certified, Neuropsychologists, to develop a strength assessment test, to develop a strength profile for each kid. Jon Kraft: One of the things we''re doing, is a lot of testing, early--not just the product, but testing the market.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

And they’re easy to remember because they all begin with an M: management, market, money and above all else momentum. If I see your alpha product then I can judge how it develops over time. If you have 2 developers and the next time I see you it’s a team of 6 with a new head of products I can see momentum.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

From lockdown in her Northern Italy home, Cevolini shared perspective on the future of motorcycling, acquisition offers and plans to recharge her company when the COVID-19 crisis subsides. She flags the manufacturer’s racing connection as something that will continue to give Energica an edge in product development.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Much like how Microsoft Windows defined the operating system for personal computers decades ago, Clio has developed a software platform for law firms and their clients that is cloud-based and client-centric by design,” Newton said. In 2018, Clio made its first acquisition with its buy of Lexicata, a Los Angeles-based legal tech startup.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2019

San Diego-based digital marketing software provider Mapp announced this morning that it is acquiring German software developer Webtrekk , a developer of marketing analytics and customer intelligence software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Webtreek is based in Berlin.

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