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

Both Sides of the Table

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. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany. Hyper-Local, meaning the entire team should be based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I learned that software engineers?—?or customers, other employees, books, blogs, social media, news?—?and Further, I was able to show the actual monetary impact of what this impact is worth to the company (thinking along the lines of customer spend, customer acquisition and retention costs, etc.). or developers?—?are

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] Uh, so I literally had to walk the entire city of Chicago and the entire city of San Francisco and pick up every single menu. What type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make.

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How to help your startup turn a profit in 4 simple steps

The Next Web

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC is how much money you can spend to get someone to become a customer. LTV ­ CAC = ROI.

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