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From ocregister.com
In the first quarter, 111 companies backed by venture capital were sold, a 73% increase from the same period a year ago and the most on record, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.

Companies looking to fix strategic flaws or simply to grow are turning again to M&A, says Bloomberg BusinessWeek columnist Frank Aquila
Corporate dealmakers lived in “interesting times” in 2008 and 2009. In the wake of the financial crisis and the resulting Great Recession, financial institutions disappeared or changed form at an unprecedented rate, [...]

By KYLE STOCK
From FINS.com
When the University of Alabama booked its trip to the college football national championship in December, Weezabi LLC went into a hurry-up offense.
The three-employee company—one of the few licensed to make “Crimson Tide” merchandise—needed 60,000 T-shirts. Without the time to huddle investors, Weezabi pledged as collateral part of its future [...]

January 15th, 2010, 4:00 pm · posted by Jan Norman, small-business columnist
Private equity firms raised $135 billion in 2009, down 57% from 2008 and the least since 2004, according to PitchBook Data Inc., a private equity research firm. (Click on image for a larger view.) Source: Pitchbook Data Inc. Source: Pitchbook Data Inc. [...]

By Venture Capital Dispatch
A continued lack of liquidity and increasingly bad 10-year track records took a toll for venture capital firms in 2009, leading to far less commitments by limited partners.

Although a few established firms with strong names and a few new firms with star investors had no trouble raising capital, overall VC fund-raising fell [...]

By CONOR DOUGHERTY
The economy is primed for a stronger finish to 2009 than most forecasters and business executives expected just a few months ago, prompting tempered optimism that employers may resume hiring early in the next year.
“Growth through October far outpaced our expectations,” said Ben Herzon, an economist at Macroeconomic Advisers, a St. Louis forecasting [...]