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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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

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How about mergers and acquisitions? In 2012, half of all the M&A transactions were cross border, for the first time. For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny. acquisition merger exits interview capital venture banking investment siemer david' Globalization is a big trend.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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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. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.