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Dave Ryan of Mission Ventures On Exits

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Last month, San Diego-based venture capital firm Mission Ventures (www.missionventures.com) sold its portfolio firm, Carlsbad-based 3E , just the latest in a string of exits for the firm, which also included an IPO in Maxlinear earlier in the year. How much involvement did Mission have in that sale? READ MORE>>.

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Image Metrics Buys Big Stage

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Image Metrics said it would merge Big Stag's avatar creation platform into its existing, real-time video animation technology. Those avatars could be used in virtual worlds, video clips, video games, and for social networking sites. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets

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Demand offers up a network of online, content driven web sites--plus a healthy domain name registration business--and has garnered lots of attention for specifically creating content for search engines. Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway. Platform G / Mindjolt.

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Interview with Eric Hovanec and Steve Reich, LeisureLink

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Eric Hovanec: We're a distribution and revenue platform for specialty lodging providers, including vacation rentals, condominium hotels--anything that isn't a hotel. We've got a software-as-a-service platform that handles all of that for them--all they have to do is hand the guest the key. Our platform allows that.

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Plug and Play San Diego Finds Home in New Downtown Works Space

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With over 15,000 square-feet of space, the facility has room for dozens of startup teams, and already houses Industry, a Web-based professional networking and job market for the hospitality industry, and the San Diego office of OurCrowd, the Israeli crowdfunding platform. The other partners are Edward Adato and Daniel Schwarzblat.). “I