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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. Perrigo, a maker of over-the-counter drugs and infant formulas, agreed to buy the assets of Minneapolis-based Paddock Laboratories for $540 million in cash.