SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. Example here: [link]. Vince: I only take business that I believe in.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. An example was that while we were in the seed round at Ring and followed in the A, B, C and D … we were also able to lean into the E round when Jamie really wanted to scale up his funding and the final check was still > 420% IRR! Why does that matter?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. I’ll be covering my PUCCKA sales methodology. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. Another example.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

Jimmy Hendricks: We make a percentage of every sale. For example, if a customer has a question on a purchase, we answer that. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. I was hired to run their tennis division, and I built our the sales division for their tennis team.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Founded in 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. What is total assets under management? -

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

For example: If you were to invest $41 million into a company (and one could assume that you owned between 33-50%) then the company is worth $82-123 million at funding. Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you’re clearly gunning for an IPO.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

For example, only qualified institutional or accredited, sophisticated buyers are allowed on the bulletin boards. Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

An example of that is Craig's, which now has Craigs.la. We bought and sold domains, and it's now been over two million since 2007. The biggest sale I think was over $10 million fro a domain, and we have thousands of customers. It's a shorter domain, with an LA look, style, and feel. How did you get involved with.LA?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

For example, there are the private company valuation figures that get bandied about: think the numbers people reference for Uber and AirBnB for example. A little background: 409A valuations are named for the section of Internal Revenue Code Section that created them in 2007. Recent equity sales i.e., comparables.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. They don�t need digital sales, they need to drive people into stores.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

That includes e-commerce retailers, which continue to claim a growing slice of overall retail sales. 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. Plus, holiday e-commerce sales are widely expected to continue rising in 2015.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. However, you are only paid for ads that generate sales. Such actions include sales, trials, leads, downloads, etc.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

They've grown their businesses through word of mouth more than through a large, established sales organization and they have done that by building a software product that is very well received, and unique in their particular niche market. The second reason is that we are a hybrid fund with a unique strategy.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Equity 168

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

A good example of what we do is, you can open a WAP browser on your phone and go to m.myspace.com, which is perfectly fiîe. Some carriers are launching it as part of a data plan, for example for $30 you get unlimited Internet, and you get the application for free. We're really focused on enterprise sales and carrier grade products.

Social Network 113

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JULY 10, 2010

Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is Free for groups <250 and for student groups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. You feel it, too.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a dose of adventure, and make it work to your advantage. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a dose of adventure, and make it work to your advantage. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The campaign was so successful it eventually catapulted 7-Up’s sales to rival that of both Coke and Pepsi, making it the third most popular soft drink in the US. For example, if they own 15% of the company in a Series A round, then they will only invest an amount in the Series B round such that their overall investment remains 15%.

Cloud Computing 140

Cloud Computing Entrepreneur Invest Funding 140

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

You want to be able to target these buckets--for example, an advertiser like Warner Brothers might want to promote their Batman film and show a trailer to a user that fits a certain profile. The platforms will be using it to serve ads into their ecosystem, essentially allowing their ad sales teams to sell into their impressions.

Social Media 113

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you want it to be private, for example if you're a consultant or teacher, you can share it with a pre-identified audience for that knowledge by publishing it privately and inviting others to log into Knowledge Genie to share that knowledge. The second example, is you can publish it in public.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The campaign was so successful it eventually catapulted 7-Up’s sales to rival that of both Coke and Pepsi, making it the third most popular soft drink in the US. For example, if they own 15% of the company in a Series A round, then they will only invest an amount in the Series B round such that their overall investment remains 15%.

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Entrepreneur Invest Funding Capital 157

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. The way our business model works, is, for example, if you're a. You hit submit, and your images are instantly available for sale as prints on our website. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

You want to be able to target these buckets--for example, an advertiser like Warner Brothers might want to promote their Batman film and show a trailer to a user that fits a certain profile. The platforms will be using it to serve ads into their ecosystem, essentially allowing their ad sales teams to sell into their impressions.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Take for example Accel. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 The problem is the illiquidity because investors are often locked in for 7-10 years. Yet their next fund had Facebook in it.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Educate us, and explain what's different about how you are handling ticket sales and how that's different from the many others out there? For example, at an event, say at the Staples Center, of the 20,000 seats they might have four or five price groups. That's not an efficient way to sell tickets. It ends up, our margins went way up.

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Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Startup 253

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service? Rob Reed: Starbucks seems to be a good example, though they are not a client. We'll also be ramping sales, as well.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

Examples: B2C Example (for an eBay user): 1. B2B Example (for a StrongMail user): 1. For me, this test also serves as a strategic guideline for almost everything I do: - business plans - investor pitches - sales pitches - marketing messaging - product management - press/media calls - etc. . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

It will help your company stay focused, it will build confidence in your entire organization (especially your sales/marketing team) and most importantly, your customers/users will think to go to you first. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We had known about the company, going back to when we were all at Pentadyne, and in 2007 we entered into a license from the group of people who had acquired those designs. When their parent firm pulled up support for that company in 2004, they went out of business, but the technology and the IP lived on.

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Design Training Outsource Development Southern California 138

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MARCH 1, 2011

For example, one time Mike went to David Liu, CEO of The Knot, and said ‘I know your wedding pages are very valuable. After rejuvenating from the exhausting sale of Quigo, Mike started a ‘boring site’ called Tracked.com that he thought would be a better version of Yahoo! They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

John Mudge: We launched IBN Sports in January of 2007, focused on creating an interactive, broadcast network for sports. An example, is they took four of our pieces, put them on the front page of YouTube for 24 hours, and -- despite being pushed off the page by breaking news -- we approached a million streams for that content.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

“Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues” . An example of design patent is shown at left. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup.

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IP Patents Company Companies 256

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You might, for example, hold events in the rough key/value form: user_id, event_name, value, datetime. For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. It is leads you need to make sales in B2B. December 2007 (7). November 2007 (4). July 2007 (9).

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Startup IP Email Report 29

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

My House Is Not For Sale. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. Open up a “sales process” and solicit bids from multiple companies. In this example, agreement is achievable between $145M and $185M. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. Get Out Of The Zone.

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