socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2017

San Diego- and Baltimore-based private equity investor JMI Equity announced this morning that it has promoted Suken Vakil and Randy Guttman to General Partner. Guttman ha been at JMI since 2007, and has been CFO of the firm since 2013; he had previously been at EY. READ MORE>>.

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Equity San Diego Internet Brands Invest 113

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

The startup says it added more than 200 new publishers and 100 new buyer channels for the six months ended March 31, 2013, and that its customers now include more than 500 of the world''s premium publishers, including eBay UK, Time, ABC News, the Wall Street Journal, Tribune Company, Virgin Media, People, Universal and many others.

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Customer Custom Clearstone Journal 220

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more. The tide has gone out.

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Venture Capital Startup Marketing Pricing 466

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium , founded in 2008, has raised close to $113 million since its inception, according to Crunchbase , although that number includes both debt and equity deals. Lunsford joined Tealium at the beginning of 2013, after a seven-year run as the CEO of Limelight Networks in Tempe, AZ. For us, it’s never been about tags or Javascript.

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Customer Custom San Diego JavaScript 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Last year alone, online holiday sales rose 15% over 2013 figures, including increases of 32% on Thanksgiving, 26% on Black Friday, and 17% on Cyber Monday. The Index of Consumer Sentiment found in mid-October that “personal financial expectations rose to their highest level since 2007.” the highest it’s been in eight years.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In the case of startups the “buyer” is the VC looking to part cash for “purchasing” equity in your startup. You’ll see here that in 2007 people were willing to pay 7.7x in 2013 and then reverted back to 4x – a little bit below the historical mean. Demand represents a buyer and supply a seller.

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