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Peregrine Semiconductor Files For IPO

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Peregrine Semiconductor is venture backed by Morgenthaler Partners, Ridgewood Peregrine, Palisades Ventures, TVP, Advanced Equities, and others. According to the firm's S-1, the company had a net loss of $7.4M in 2009, and a net loss of $2.5M on revenues of $70.5M on revenues of $67.6M READ MORE>>.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Family Offices (of high-net-worth individuals or families). That’s why the best firms tend to raise every three years. University Endowments. Foundations.

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Demand Media Files For IPO

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According to Demand's IPO filing, the firm had a net loss of $6.00M on revenues of $114.0M For the year ended December 31, 2009, the firm had a net loss of $21.9M The firm's major stockholders are Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., in the first six months of 2010.

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Sundae snags $36M to build out its distressed property marketplace

TechCrunch LA

With those two funding rounds all equity-based, to buy up property itself and provide $10,000 cash advances to all sellers, Sundae previously also raised a debt fund from high net worth individuals, and it has a “very large” debt facility from Goldman Sachs that it also non-dilutive, Stech said.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Raising Seed Capital Now: 10 Tips

Tech Coast Venture Network

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money. By Monica Mehta. After years of cloudy skies in Startupland, the sun is peeking out, and investors are tipping their toes back into the wading pool. Avoid approaching investors in July, August, and December.

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