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Putting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses

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We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. The team methodically worked on how to build a database of national vendors by business type, location, product type, hours, etc.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. Competitors: InformationBuilders , DataWatch.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. It fuels our bonus payments, our quarterly earnings, our growth rate, our value at acquisition time.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. I wrote extensively about this at the time of their first acquisitions , including this passage: “I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management (CMS) company.

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