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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

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The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. The acquisition of Appetize extends SpotOn’s reach to the enterprise space in a major way.

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Bridgepoint Education Buys Fullstack Academy For $50.75M

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Fullstack Academy operates a web development coding bootcamp, which focuses on cybersecurity training. Bridgepoint said the acquisition will help it with entry into higher education services, as well as expanding its "skills-to-employment" offerings. in cash and up to 4.75 million shares of its common stock. READ MORE>>.

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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

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Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. Of course, there's still hard work to be done to as the bad news is that its hard finding good Web Development in Los Angeles and certainly its tough Finding Developers Here in Los Angeles.

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Fairway Technologies Buys IT Strategists

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Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. IT Strategists was founded by Frank Bell, and had focused on data warehousing, big data development, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and web development. READ MORE>>.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Map of VC Investments

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Posted byTony Karrer at 9:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

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Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.