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APRIL 19, 2011

Or read the quick, informative summary below the image! He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#. That was a quick meeting!!

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Carlsbad-based Medsphere Systems , a provider of healthcare information technology and software, has raised $40M in new funding from private equity investor TPG Sixth Street Partners, the company said this morning. The new funds will go towards organic growth as well as "opportunistic strategic acquisitions", according to the company.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , has reportedly been in talks with New York-based Dubsmash on an acquisition, according to The Information, which says that Facebook also has been talking with the TikTok competitor. The Information cited "a person familiar with the matter".

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MAY 14, 2020

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. NextVR's backers had included CITIC Guoan Information Industry Co Ltd, NetEase, CMC Holdings, SoftBank Corp., Newport Beach-based NextVR , a developer of virtual reality technology, has been acquired by Apple , Apple disclosed on THursday afternoon.

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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. The funding was led by serial entreprenur Yuri Pikover, as well as $1M from crowdfunding. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Parchment , a company which provided records management, transcripts, grades, and other information for the K-12 and other markets--and which has its roots in the LA area--has been acquired by Brentwood Associates. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Santa Ana-based CoreLogic , a provider of real estate and mortgage databases and information, said Monday afternoon that it has hired investment banking firm Greenhill & Co., Typically, companies hire an investment bank to shop itself to buyers. to explore "alternatives to enhance shareholder value." READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Modern information management tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. They may have the finances you need to invest in a business area they know, where you have the core competency.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

One of the big shareholders of Irvine-based CoreLogic Kennedy Enterprises LP --says it is against the recent unsolicited bid on the provider of real estate information. per share in cash bid from Senator Investment Group LP and Cannae Holdings Inc. CoreLogic is a major provider of property and real estate information.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. How about charging by the bite (not byte)? The post Have you heard? Eyeballs aren’t everything. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Bitvore has created an intelligence gathering and analysis system--originally developed for secretive intelligence agencies--but is now being used by finance and Wall Street customers to mine data for tracking investments. The company's President, Jeff Curie, was also an executive at Access360, IBM, and SupplyFrame.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated.

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JUNE 21, 2012

The acquisition of Los Angeles-based Savings.com is apparently worth over $100M, plus an unspecified additional amount based on future performance of the firm, according to new numbers provided to the press by acquiring firm Cox Target Media. Savings.com is a provider of online coupons and deal information. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But the software — and the information it’s collecting from manufacturing — can be used to inform better design decisions and the upstream product development process, Talati said. .” On the process side, that means reducing waste, and making the manufacturing of goods more efficient.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

The firm, which develops healthcare information technology products, did not disclose financial details of the acquisition. Orion Healthcare Ventures is an investment firm focused on healthcare IT ventures. The firms claimed that Asprya had "positive cash flow" in 2010, but did not otherwise provide any financial information.

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JUNE 8, 2020

in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, and also which also included Experian Ventures, Cherry Tree Investments, Dig Ventures, Mucker Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, TechStars and Wavemaker Partners. We wanted to make the topics, information, and content relevant to people as they came into the ecosystem. What is Stackin'?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In addition, current investors want to see every startup go public or be acquired, as an exit event, so they can get their due return for that investment which has been tied up for the last few years. For these reasons, I always look for an overt exit strategy in every startup I might consider for an angel investment.

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JULY 27, 2016

The The Stage Fund , a investment and acquisition firm focused on acquiring turnaround companies, has tapped a longtime Southern California entrepreneur, Dan Tamkin , as a new Managing Partner in Los Angeles. According to the fund, Tamkin will be setting up a West Coast office for the fund, which is based in Denver, Colorado.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

It seems like a lot of what you are doing is about providing valuable information that accompanies the work that you do. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. A negative customer acquisition cost!

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

According to the company, Senator Investment Group LP and Cannae Holdings Inc. CoreLogic--which provides property information and data for the real estate industry--says its board of directors "will carefully review the revised proposal with the assistance of financial and legal advisors". per share in cash.

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MAY 28, 2021

billion by the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg cited "people with knowledge of the matter" for the information. Newport Beach-based wireless infrastructure provider Mobilitie appears to be up for bid, and is nearing a deal to be acquired for more than $1.3

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JUNE 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , an online startup developing software to help link entrepreneurs with their investors, has raised $350,000 in an equity investment round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Tags: caplinked paypal mafia venture capital investment startup entrepreneur. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 12, 2018

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Pomeroy provided information technology services, including managed services, to the middle market and enterprise customers. Clearlake has owned Pomeroy Group Holdings for the last five years. Pomeroy was based in Hebron, Kentucky.

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MAY 14, 2019

The Chinese owner of Los Angeles-based gay dating app Grindr must sell Grindr by June of 2020, after reaching an agreement with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. The issue comes over the concern by CFIUS that sensitive information about U.S. Beijing Kunlun Tech Co. , Beijing Kunlun Tech Co. , Beijing Kunlun Tech Co.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. They may have the finances you need to invest in a business area they know, where you have the core competency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2021

In addition, current investors want to see every startup go public or be acquired, as an exit event, so they can get their due return for that investment which has been tied up for the last few years. For these reasons, I always look for an overt exit strategy in every startup I might consider for an angel investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Modern information management tools.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

We have invested in 13 companies out of our Fund 1 so far and are more bullish than ever on the amazing entrepreneurs we are meeting and the companies we are helping them build. The exit through acquisition by ReliaQuest is the first of what we expect will be many exits for our Fund 1 portfolio. Since 2010, $6.3B

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Westlake Village-based ValueClick announced this morning that it has acquired Investopedia.com , an online site focused on financial information and education. Investopedia provides information to consumers on financial terms, education, investing, and more. The deal was worth $42M in cash. million unique U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

If we build it, they will come” doesn’t work in today’s worldwide information overload. I recommend a trial run with an experiment or MVP (minimum viable product), at full price and cost, before the big bang launch, risking your investment money and a major time commitment. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated.

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MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. I made some reference calls.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners said Thursday that it has acquired Luminator Technology Group , a provider of advanced information systems and LED displays and lighting products for the transportation industry. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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APRIL 8, 2013

OpenX said it can the use that information to help improve advertising revenues. The new product comes thanks to the acquisition last fall of JumpTime. OpenX is venture backed by Accel Partners, Index Ventures, SAP Ventures and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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