socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

According to the firm, its core operating income and core net income for Q4 of fiscal 2008 will exceed the guidance previously provided by the company. Newport Beach-based semiconductor maker Conexant Systems said Tuesday afternoon that it has boosted its earnings guidance on better gross margins.

.Net 100

.Net Marketing Product Company 100

socalTECH

MAY 20, 2009

Victory Pharma has 182 employees, and had net sales of $57M in 2008, Sciele said. Victory was advised by Cowen & Company LLC and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP; Schiele was advised by UBS Investment Bank and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.

San Diego 100

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

The firm said the cuts bring the company's reduction in headcount to 1300, or 29 percent of its staff. The revelation came as part of the firm's Q2 2009 results, when the firm said it had net sales of $91.2M, a 39% decrease from the $149.3M in sales it had in Q2 of 2008. READ MORE>>.

Layoffs 100

Layoffs .Net Sales Product 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

We talked about how the metaphor for finding information might be changing and why large companies such as HP and Microsoft are betting so big on this industry. And I made the prediction that within the next 2 years RIM (the parent company of Blackberry) will not be independent. Yes, that’s right. The race is on!

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2009

According to Broadcom, the company is looking to manage its costs and focus on operating cash flow, and is implementing cost saving measures including delaying salary increases, a reduction in workforce, and a variety of other "belt-tightening" actions.

Layoffs 100

Layoffs .Net Report Company 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

This latest round valued the company in excess of a billion dollars, entering them into the overly-hyped Unicorn Club. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser. billion).

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

In case you didn’t know, many VCs target a 3-year investment horizon for a fund and after that the fund mostly does only follow-on investments in companies in that portfolio. Family Offices (of high-net-worth individuals or families). Insurance Companies. That’s why the best firms tend to raise every three years.

Venture Capital 396

Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I wish all of them well and feel confident that anybody employed at one of the most innovative companies of the past 10 years will land on his or her feet. The truth is that Twitter is an amazing company and still has an amazing opportunity in front of it. ” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate? ” Listen.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Slides Capital Funding 150

socalTECH

JULY 5, 2011

We spoke with founder Scott Dudelson to hear more about the company. How did the company come about? Scott Dudelson: Swagbucks came about from several different pivots by the company. They'd promote the site to their constituents and supporters, to raise money for the company, and we'd share it back with them.

Startup 266

Startup Sites Web Entertainment 266

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

Starting a tech company requires youthful vigor, endurance, freedom from obligations like mortgages, imagination, and an intimate understanding of what’s trendy and hip. The article summarized several findings that I personally found surprising: Technology company founders born in the U.S.

Blogging 93

Blogging Entrepreneur Sample Yahoo 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Great companies are comprised of great individual point people or functional leaders. There are plenty of great leaders who work really hard and work for big companies. If you put on paper what it would take to be successful in your company, you’d never take the first step, which is why most people don’t. They finally quit.

Entrepreneur 293

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital CTO Hire 293

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. So he decided to start his company in Canada.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.] It takes less to start a business these days – We all know that it takes less to start a technology company these days. He then profiled his portfolio company FourSquare who started with a very small investment.

Venture Capital 311

Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2014

No other company competes with Google Glass on the augmented reality (AR) market, but there are plenty of startups looking to take a bite at the market. 1,500 can net a lot of people great tech, but for a pair of AR glasses does not seem so appealing. Google Glass started a revolution for wearable devices.

Screening 89

Screening Google Startup Pricing 89

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

LPs have been feeling great about venture capital due to holding valuable paper positions in companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Dropbox, all of which they feel confident will drive large cash distributions in the future. In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Capital Marketing Seed Funding 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. Ron Paul’s presidential bid, the Arizona League of Conservation Voters and the 2008 California No on Prop.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 17, 2012

I look forward to working with the Company’s dedicated employees to bring innovative products, content, and personalized experiences to users and advertisers all around the world.” ’s products will continue to enhance our partnerships with advertisers, technology and media companies, while inspiring and delighting our users.

Yahoo 51

Yahoo Artificial Inteligence Google Design 51

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Working with professional athletes combined with my natural leadership ability and experience in business development makes me uniquely suited to lead a technology company in the health and fitness industry. The third co-founder is Bobby McDonald , Vice President, Director of Business Development.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming. Before working in California, Chris worked for Maryland based game companies MicroProse and Games Workshop. 1 st Street Partners provides strategic management services to technology, entertainment and consumer goods companies.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

The company was founded by the head of the North America investments for Carrefour, the second largest retailer in the world, the head of the retail banking practice at DLJ, the investment bank. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. Those companies are doing phenomenally well, and in a normal market was IPO.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. My solution: cast a wider net. ► October (1) New Video! .

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup .Net Venture Capital 40

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. I think the reason that LinkedIn is working is that there are so many other people in our micromarket (or microfield) in our networks that we end up really just being a couple hops away from someone whos perfectly qualified.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Frank Addante

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Starting five companies, I have been fortunate to have worked with many different types of people.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. This way, when someone says "I have X problem" the default company everyone thinks of is yours.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are striving to be the super-mega technology company that owns every layer of the value chain. The first half of the value chain is far more capital-intensive, so they weren’t able to move into those layers until the company grew and matured. This post will focus on the former.

Google 92

Google Web .Net Yahoo 92

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. How is the company funded and backed? Has that been the case for you?

Redpoint 201

Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

When you don’t know what failure looks like you can shoot for the moon without a safety net with the blind belief that you’ll conquer the world. When you’ve failed you at least think twice about the safety net albeit you may still take the leap. I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. Yet failure smells.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur .Net Venture Capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal.

Venture Capital 329

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 329

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44