Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Even though initial stock has no value or market, it is extremely valuable in dividing entity ownership between multiple co-founders, commensurate with their investment, contribution and role. Startup owners need to assume a three to five year wait for a liquidity event, such as acquisition or going public, before they can cash out.

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L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 14, 2016

Net-neutrality upheld in federal court, e-commerce startup Loot Crate secures major investment; Electronic Arts sets its sights on e-sports market, and more.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

As crazy as this scenario sounds, it is very similar to the “scoring process” companies engage in when they track Net Promoter Scores. Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Turning Net Promoters Into Net Profits. Shots On Goal.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Rightside , the domain name service company which is in the process of being spun out of Santa Monica-based Demand Media , said today that it has inked a deal to bring to new domains to the market: DANCE and.DEMOCRAT. Rightside said it has begun early registration of.DANCE and.DEMOCRAT to trademark holders. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

As crazy as this scenario sounds, it is very similar to the “scoring process” companies engage in when they track Net Promoter Scores. Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Turning Net Promoters Into Net Profits. Shots On Goal.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2011

in net proceeds from the firm's IPO last week. The firm, which debuted on the NYSE as DMD, said it will use the new funding for investments in content, international expansion, working capital, product development, sales and marketing activities, general and administrative matters and capital expenditures.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2017

The company trades as APHB on the NYSE Small Cap Market. San Diego-based AmpliPhy Biosciences , a developer of therapies for treating drug-resistant bacterial infections using bacteriophage technology, said it raised $9.1M for the company in its IPO. The company's IPO offering was run by Rodman & Renshaw.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 28, 2021

You, the lonely fisherman, must weave a net to catch your fish. Should your net be large and bulky, requiring more effort and expense to weave? Or should it be small and delicate, to catch those fish that would otherwise fall through the net? So, is your (SOM) serviceable obtainable market large enough?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 23, 2015

As crazy as this scenario sounds, it is very similar to the “scoring process” companies engage in when they track Net Promoter Scores. A company''s Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a beloved metric slavishly tracked and reported by product marketing and customer support executives of both established and nascent enterprises.

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Berkonomics

JULY 30, 2015

500 entrepreneur, after years as a senior marketing manager of a large computer company. In three weeks of fast restructuring of our credit, tamping down our growth, reworking our marketing plan, repairing our inventories, calming down our vendors, working with our bigger customers (i.e. Editor’s note: Berni Jubb was an Inc.500

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Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2020

Every dollar of gross profit falls to the bottom line, increasing net profit faster with each transaction. A ten percent increase in revenues for a company with 50% gross margin and 5% net profit before the increase would double net profit for the period with that ten percent increase in revenue. An example to make this clear.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I am on the board of a services company that specializes in the middle of the market, knowing that very large competitors throw lots of resources at the largest accounts – resources that our company just does not have.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2022

Santa Monica-based online employment market operator ZipRecruiter said on Friday that it is raising $550M in debt, via 5.000% Senior Notes due in 2030, up from an earlier announced $500M.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2023

Read the rest of Three Predictions for 2023: Decentralization Now, Post-Speculation, and Surviving Irrational Markets. And in these centralized models, the blockchain is little more than a very slow and expensive database.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

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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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2014

The sale netted the company $20M, which it will use to fund its U.S. Moviepilot , the online film review and publishing site led by Tobias Bauckhage, has sold off its German website, moviepilot.de , to French publisher Webedia. The move puts the company''s focused squarely on its Los Angeles operations.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2021

which is now trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as EVGO, with warrants trading as EVGOW. EVgo had previously said it would receive $575M in net proceeds, which it will use to fund and accelerate its growth strategy and network build out. EVgo operates a network of public fast charging stations for electric vehicles.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

TrueCar said it had a net loss of $6.8 million compared to net income of $11.6M Los Angeles-based automotive marketplace operator TrueCar released a highlight of its results last night, saying that the firm's revenues were down 28.8% year-over-year, and 16.4% in the third quarter of 2020.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2021

The company has applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Market as DSGN. The IPO offering would net the company around $276M, and value it at over $1.1 Carlsbad-based Design Therapeutics, a company developing treatments for serious degenerative disorders, has set an expected IPO offering range of between $18.00 and $20.00 billion.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2021

The deal takes Boingo off the public markets, where it had been trading as WIFI on the NASDAQ. The deal also included assumption of $199M in Boingo's net debt obligations, which is included in the valuation. The deal valued Boingo at approximately $854M. Digital Colony paid $14.00 in cash per share of Boingo common stock.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2021

Laguna Hills-based biotech developer PharmaCyte Biotech said late Monday that the company is shifting to the Nasdaq Capital Market, having been approved to list on the exchange as PMCB. PharmaCyte said it will use net proceeds of the offering to complete activities requested by the U.S. Wainwright.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2021

According to Cohu, it sold its Printed Circuit Board Test Group (PTG) business to Mycronic AB, a Swedish company involved in development, manufacture and marketing of production equipment, including atg Luther & Maelzer GmbH and other affiliated entities and assets. The deal is worth $125M in cash.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2022

Financial perspective: financial statement showing key indicators such as revenue, expense, net income or other measures important to success. Customer perspective: Ratings of customer satisfaction, statistics of customer retention, market share and even brand strength. Use the four most important measures of success as the basis.

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socalTECH

JULY 3, 2017

Los Angeles-based YP.com , the provider online directories and services to help businesses get their companies online which has been remade by a number of technology executives into a provider of local business marketing and automation software, has been acquired by competing directory provider Dex Media. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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Berkonomics

JULY 11, 2013

Every dollar of gross profit falls to the bottom line, increasing net profit faster with each transaction. A ten percent increase in revenues for a company with 50% gross margin and 5% net profit before the increase would double net profit for the period with that ten percent increase in revenue.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2021

That’s how much Los Angeles-based ServiceTitan , a startup founded just eight years ago is worth now, thanks to some massive tailwinds around homebuilding and energy efficiency that are serving to boost the company’s bottom line and netting it an unprecedented valuation for a vertical software company, according to bankers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2021

Irvine-based Viant Technology, a developer of advertising software, has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing with the SEC that it is looking to raise up to $150M in an IPO on the Nasdaq Global Market as DSP. in net income on $164M in revenues for the year ended December 31, 2019. The company is led by CEO Tim Vanderhook.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The company begins trading this morning on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as GDRX. The company says it expects to net $725M after underwtigin discounts, commissions, and other expenses. The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co. Seelaus & Co., LLC and Ramirez & Co.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Invoca--which sent its workers home in March to due to the COVID-19 pandemic--apparently discovered in January that bees had taken up residence in its offices, resulting in a major bee removal operation which netted the company nearly 10 pounds of honey when the bees were removed by a local honeybee relocation firm.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

TubeMogul , a video advertising company which has offices in Los Angeles, has been acquired by Adobe in a deal worth $540M net of debt and cash. Adobe said that TubeMogul becomes part of its Digital Marketing business. According to Adobe, it will pay $14.00 per share for TubeMogul. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Santa Monica-based Super League Gaming , which operates its own e-sports competition site and community, is headed for the public markets, hoping to raise as much as $31.36M for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. 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.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2019

La Jolla-based biopharmaceuticals startup Inhibrx has just filed for an IPO, saying in an S-1 filing that it is looking to raise up to $74.75M in an IPO on the Nasdaq Global Market. The company reported a net loss of $31.02M in 2018 on revenues of $8.5M; the company's current revenue stream includes both license fees and grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Exactly what is that customer experience that every modern marketer is talking about, and how do you measure it? One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). The formula for the Net Promoter® Score is the percentage of customers who are detractors, subtracted from the percentage who are promoters (NPS=P-D).

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Berkonomics

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s the question: Sean Ellis, the marketing guru behind DropBox and other successes, advises clients that “The most important question on a survey is , ‘How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?’” He goes on to quantify the response. Most of us know of the “net promoter score” which is the ultimate survey.

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