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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Growth markets have a way of fooling us all. And importantly we’ve had revenue. It has been a good run.

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5 Preconditions for Success in Spawning a New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

After many years in business, working in large companies as well as startups, I’m no longer surprised at why mature and successful companies struggle with introducing innovative new ventures as the market and environment changes. Commit a source of internal or external seed funding. Get prepared for the accelerate and scaling phase.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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LA TECH SUMMIT Celebrates Los Angeles’s Phenomenal Growth

LATechDigest

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

socalTECH

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. That''s why the IPO markets coming back is so critical. David Siemer: More generally, the M&A market is solid. which is still a premier market for the world.

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

Both Sides of the Table

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content.

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