socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Barclays Capital, William Blair & Company, Piper Jaffray, Pacific Crest Securities, and JMP Securities. According to the S-1, the firm had a net loss of $8.3M for 2009, and has seen revenues grow to $20.28M in the first six months of 2010. The IPO is being underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & Co., on revenues of $29.3M

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

the Sunnyvale-based semiconductor maker which has major operations in Westlake Village, has released its latest financials in an updated S-1 from the company, saying that it had had net income of $19.6M The firm had net income attributable to common stockholders of $2.2M. for the same six months in 2009. Inphi Corp. ,

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2010

Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Raine Securities, and JMP Securities. According to Demand's IPO filing, the firm had a net loss of $6.00M on revenues of $114.0M in the first six months of 2010.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2010

in cash for Telogy, adjusted based on changes in Telogy's net accounts receivable, equipment purchases and equipment sales since September 30, 2009. Telogy provides test equipment to aerospace and defense, wireless communications and computer and semiconductor manufacturing companies, and was based in Union City, California.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2010

Pasadena-based Cogent , the developer of fingerprint and other biometric readers, is being acquired by 3M , the two companies announced today. per share, worth approximately $943M, or $430M net of cash acquired. The companies said that publicly held Cogent had approximately $130M in revenue in 2009, and employs approximately 500.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2010

According to Image Metrics, it has entered into an exchange offer with International Cellular Industries, an OTC BB firm traded as ICLA, to become a pubicly traded company. Source of the new financing for the company was not disclosed. The firm said it had a net loss of $6.8M for fiscal 2009. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2010

The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank Securities, Jeffries & Company, Thomas Weisel Partners, and Needham & Company. In its S-1, the firm said it had net income of $7.3M for the year ended December 31, 2009. on total revenues of $58.8M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. You've done this before in other industries--what led to new company?

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Agoura Hills-based THQ has swung back into the black, saying Tuesday evening that it had net income of $6.4M for its fiscal first quarter, on the strength of the firm's new UFC 2009 Undisputed title. on sales of $243.5M The positive results compared with a loss of $27.2M and sales of $137.6M last year for the same quarter.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Angel Investing - Demystified. Angel networks, where high-net-worth individuals come together to screen and vet deals, are the source of much of this funding. In the current economic and venture capital climate, angel investment is an increasingly important component of the start-up capital structure.

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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.

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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>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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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. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 6, 2009

Thursday, March 12, 2009 -- 5 Keys to a Customer Centric Organization. Most every company claims or believes they are customer centric, but are they really? In a recent study of 665 companies worldwide, Gartner found that less than 5 percent of businesses have successfully implemented "customer centric" approaches.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

What changed — and why the definition changed — was it became 90+% cheaper to start companies and thus seed funds appeared en masse as did angels so the size of seed rounds actually INCREASED and the size of A-rounds in many instances decreased. Why the latter? If you''re newer to VC math here''s a great primer].

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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!

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009. Al Eisaian: We spent all of 2009 doing research with moms, having moms come into our Pasadena office and researching what things they wanted in the app. Al Eisaian: There's a common theme with the last three companies I've been involved in as far as startups.

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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

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

At the conference, we will explore how companies are using these technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, publishing, customer service, and personal productivity. . Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Despite the third-quarter funding drop, though, funding for the full year still looks to be higher than it was in 2009. billion invested during the same three-month period in 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Move your company to China, India, or Israel.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. The money that went into them was usually very inefficiently deployed because it was deployed against infrastructure, it was deployed against a longer arc of build-up and you were into a company a while before you knew whether something was going to work or not.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. You’re a small fish. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

And 450 million licenses of Windows 7 were sold since its launch in 2009, making it the fastest-growing operating system ever, and showing us that Windows is going to keep controlling the OS market share. Microsoft as a company also donates its products and services to help those less fortunate. 3. It’s not just about Windows.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? years in LA (early 90’s) many of my friends left to start companies in Silicon Valley. Can’t hurt.&#.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. “Most have a strong desire to mentor and help build companies.”

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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. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Earlier in his career, O’Neil honed his sales and marketing expertise with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, where he became vice president of sales, and the New Jersey Nets, where he began his career as a marketing assistant. He brings to ScoreBig.com the much needed expertise for marketing and growth.

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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.

Venture Capital 100

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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. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Weve also found that potential clients find us through LinkedIn.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. My solution: cast a wider net.

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Outsource Development Startup .Net Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I think that safety net goes away after the 5th grade.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► October (1) New Video! .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

Yet along with “authenticity” they are two of the key attributes I look for when I meet with companies I may consider funding one day. This is how Upfront Ventures came to fund Tristan Walker – one of the most talented and passionate entrepreneurs with whom we work whose new company is called Bevel. It wears you down.

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