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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

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Acquisition of note: Nexsan Acquired For $120M, by Imation. Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). AwarePoint ($4M, San Diego, real time patient location systems). Surf Air ($2.6M, Los Angeles, subscription aircraft service). TapIt Media acquired for $23M by Phunware. How to find a startup mentor.

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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What was Southern California's technology community most interested in 2012? an article was accessed on our publication. numbers should be released in the next week for 2012. site in Texas, garnering some of the highest traffic this year on an article. As 2012 turned. As part of our. venture capital exits in.

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Insights and Opinions: A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011

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For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we share the thoughts and insights of local technology thought leaders, we have an article from Tony Greenberg , CEO of Ramprate on A Cynic's Prediction of IT and Media in 2011. Everyone who furiously cheered on the acquisition in 2011 will say it was obvious in hindsight.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

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I was an early and tireless advocate for the growth of the Internet video ecosystem and as virtually every article I wrote made clear I believe the 800-pound-gorilla is YouTube and will remain so for the foreseeable future. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

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I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. They are forwarding you set another mother f **g link to an article about your competitors. And it’s why you probably will quit on day 366 after the acquisition. I didn’t sleep much back then. And so it goes again. Sundays in the back of a plane. Center seat.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This article originally ran on PEHub. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. Fast forward to 2012 and none of these conditions hold. Just why does over-funding dampen returns?