Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

You have enough in savings to get started, but how and where do you go to find additional funding sources? When searching for funding, one of your primary tasks should be to start where it is easier, and proceed from there. Fees may seem high at first, but, on a total cost basis, these funding sources can appear more reasonable.

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Funding Entrepreneur Startup Invest 192

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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Organization Invest Customer Custom 173

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

Thus, today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies versus an IPO, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding. There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required.

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Startup Report IBM IBM 98

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

If you are looking for funding and customers for your new business, you need to identify your “unique selling proposition” (USP) right up front, in 30 seconds or less, to differentiate yourself in today’s information overload. Ideally the solution embodies intellectual property that you own, giving you a sustainable competitive advantage.

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.Net Examples Customer Custom 73

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets.

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Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Look at the size of the market, and the growth projections for your sector. If you have no better info, use 5x as the multiple.

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Funding Startup Patents Outsource Development 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

Today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding. The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect a big change in the numbers soon, even with recent stock market rallies.

Startup 84

Startup Technical Review Report IBM 84

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. Broadly speaking this last trend has been healthy as it has brought an increase focus on launching products that you can test with the market and on capital efficiency.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

He told the homeowner that he represented someone who wanted to purchase the ranch at a substantial premium over its current fair market value. We boiled our alternatives down to the following: IPO – To bolster our negotiating position, I engaged an investment bank to explore the public capital markets. VC Funding Alternative.

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Company Companies Santa Barbara Pricing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Target market. Sales/Marketing.

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Sales Customer Custom Outsource 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding. The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect a big change in the numbers soon, even with recent stock market rallies.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 87

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2011

Ever since the huge success of Monrovia-based Green Dot in its IPO last year, netting a huge return for local angels, investors here have taken a second look at financial startups. Jonathan Cooper: I had been in the financial area, and I had also been involved in advising middle market companies on strategy. What's your background?

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Class Monrovia .Net Customer 168

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Both have worked.Google reached $1 billion in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50 percent and a net margin in the 20 percent range.

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Entrepreneur Organization Invest Customer 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Target market. Sales/Marketing.

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Sales Customer Custom Outsource 98

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Yet they see warning lights flashing, based on a still fragile global economy, and volatile markets ahead. Today 70 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding. Violent market swings usually hit public companies first.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400B. It’s only been in the last ten years that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars, while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. Both have worked.

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Startup Organization Invest Customer 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Growth-hacking” marketing.

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Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2011

In the past, venture debt was often viewed as a funding vehicle of last resort. The nature of the company’s business model requires it to fund certain costs before it is paid by its customers. Thus, even though the company is cash flow positive, its growth is constrained by the amount of payables it can fund. welcome back.

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Equity Startup Invest Funding 235

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Violent market swings usually hit public companies first. Public companies of any size must comply immediately with the full reporting requirements of the SEC.

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Startup Report Entrepreneur Statistics 97

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

For our interview today, we caught up with Al Eisaian , CEO of Pasadena-based IconApps (www.iconapps.com), which is developing mobile applications for the iPhone market. The way we have build this app, is we can change the skins to go after different markets, like the college crowd, or high school crowd, or what have you.

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Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Look at the size of the market, and the growth projections for your sector. If you have no better info, use 5x as the multiple.

Startup 108

Startup Invest Patents Outsource Development 108

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. billion). . <Note:

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. Nobody in our competitive space can do all of those things, because they simply don't control their own destiny, because they don't own their own technology.

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IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). 30% is the market opportunity.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Look at the size of the market, and the growth projections for your sector. If you have no better info, use 5x as the multiple.

Startup 93

Startup Patents Outsource Development Web 93

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

He told the homeowner that he represented someone who wanted to purchase the ranch at a substantial premium over its current fair market value. Fortunately, we had several alternatives available to us, including: Access the public capital markets via an initial public offering (IPO). Do nothing – continue to run our business “as is”.

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Company Companies Pricing Santa Barbara 160

Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

Critics say Mylan has been emboldened by the recall of EpiPen’s only competition last fall. Two days later, it paid AstraZeneca $550 million upfront for the rights to a group of antibiotics either already on the market or in late-stage testing. —Pfizer wasn’t done after scooping up Medivation. Morgan party.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Adam states that Bitcoin is now a large portion of his personal net wealth and has to date, backed 11 companies through Boost. Brock has personally invested close to $1M into the currency itself, and a bit shy of $1M into the companies/ecosystem with 12 funded Bitcoin companies in 2014 alone. ”(Actual words: Bull S**t).

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Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The other founding investors are Ron Conway, who you know, and Polar Capital Group, Tim Armstrong fund. That's a market of 150 million people. It's comparable to what they might net from personal training, even paying them $60 an hour, because of the time spend going to the gym, drive time, when they're not making anything.

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Media Pricing Sites Training 168

InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2011

In addition to the Luxury Tax board space, there are also Chance cards that require you to pay a percentage of your net worth in taxes. These funds often sustain a player and allow them to remain in the game when they would otherwise go bankrupt. Monopoly is no different. America’s Not-So Secret Weapon.

Entrepreneur 216

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Paramount 216

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

In addition to the Luxury Tax board space, there are also Chance cards that require you to pay a percentage of your net worth in taxes. Often, these funds are all that sustain a player and allow them to remain in the game. Monopoly is no different. In business, you want to get $200 for passing “Go” as well.

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Outsource Development Entrepreneur Training Startup 154

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. My fund was an early investor in Overture. startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. a great place for startups?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2013

Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition. Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you. That should be true even if your customer is really a distributor.

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Startup Pricing Statistics .Net 95