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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

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For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. We caught up with CEO Patrick Kennedy. What is Sidebar all about?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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TWTFelipe and everybody like him who want to start high-tech, green tech or other scientific companies in the US should be encouraged to do so. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. Roughly 25 percent of successful high-tech start-ups over the last decade were founded or co-founded by immigrants,” said Litan.

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

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One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. It continues to be somewhat surprising to me to see the number of angels who have been entering this space.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit. Historic averages were in the mid-60′s.