Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

They sold 2 years later for $16 million In the financial crisis of 2008 we had a company that had jointly hired lawyers to consider a bankruptcy and also pursued (and achieved!) the sale of the company for $1 billion. That’s return, not exit price of the company. It was ~30 days from bankruptcy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. You can be pissed off, but I don’t set prices. That’s stupid.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But that doesn’t mean that people are paying rational prices as investors based on intrinsic value. Rational people can disagree and some may argue that today’s prices are rational and under-pinned by economic drivers. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. That’s fine.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

We failed because the economy has drastically fallen since 2008, particularly in the consumer sector. Make It Work sold its services in pre-paid hours, at a discount from our pay-as-you-go pricing. Since 2008, the company has been forced to lower it’s prices, from $120/hour to $80/hour. We failed because we tried.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

Department of Justice, which triggered the sale of Semicoa to Vance Street Capital. Microsemi had purchased Semicoa in July of 2008, but shortly thereafter was targeted by the DOJ, saying that the acquisition was driving up prices for "critical" devices used by the U.S. military and space programs.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

Facebook, for example, decided in 2008 that its mission was to “help you connect and share with the people in your life.” “Marshmallow first began by providing car insurance cover for UK-based expats, a group who had historically been quoted insurance prices that were 51% higher than the market average.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. Also, it’s harder to pay a $30 million pre-money value on an unproved company when you see public companies with $100 million in sales trading for less than $20 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. a fbFund winner.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. Just like a sales person at the end of a quarter. I still have to get sales, operations, finance, HR & corp dev right to win. .&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.] You don’t have to hire as many sales people because much can be sold online. But one problem it is causing is that early-stage deal prices are creeping up again higher than historic norms.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

Jim Carol: I first started working on the concept in 2007, and we filed for our IRS determination letter in 2008. You can help by donating, but you can also go to our site, and buy what we think is going to be the best prices in the world for both new and used stuff. How long has the organization been around?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Every price comparison out there, whether that's Google Products, Bizrate, or other sites, can find books, but you can only do it one at a time. In 2008, the Federal government passed an act which said that school have to show the course and required books for those courses. What's SwoopThat?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

They can also help raise larger rounds of capital and often at higher prices. 1 party = low price. Michael’s view (full details in the video) is that right now there often aren’t multiple buyers for consumer Internet companies and prices often aren’t what people hope for going into the process. TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. Sure, that's a decent way to approach it, but the result is, studios then want a huge minimum guarantee, which really prices startups out of the market. We've really tried to change the model.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Statistics from 2008 show that digital couponing has rapidly grown but has yet to outpace paper coupons.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

When convertible debt first started being introduced as a “faster, cheaper way to get startups funded” they didn’t have pricing built into them. A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now. They’ll get priced soon enough by a VC.”

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Clothes are very personal and its really a pain to find stuff thats going to look good on you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2010

We have been able to raise thousands of dollars very quickly with this program, by paying wholesale prices and giving a large % of the profit back to the sponsoring organization. Whether you are trying to close a sale, open a business, or overcome an obstacle in your life, PCMA will get you through anything!

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The Quigley Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Riverbed, Aruba Networks, Acme Packet, F5 and Isilon and were all trading at multiples of 5 to 15 times sales. With fears of recession and certain high IT spending verticals, like financial services and retail being hard hit, growth in enterprise IT spending in 2008 is now in doubt. VCs took note.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zara is a Spanish senstation retailer that does “fast follow&# knock off popular clothing at affordable prices. Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! So I prefer to watch what works first and pay a higher price to get in when it’s proven.” Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. hours / day.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying). Why does vintage matter to you?

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The Quigley Report

MARCH 4, 2008

These firms most definitely do look at public stock market valuations as a measure of how to price a private company. For instance, in the enterprise networking space, companies like Riverbed, Aruba and Isilon were trading at better than 10 times sales. And guess what? So what are they doing?

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011. Derek Wooden.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008. Pricing and revenue? September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am. Virtual Goods Summit 2008 + last week’s Twitter links » Add New Comment. It is leads you need to make sales in B2B. Archives Select Month September 2008 (14).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

For those patient enough to source great companies at reasonable prices and prepared to weather the next inevitable downturn, I believe firmly there will be economic rewards for discipline and patience. They compete on features, price and execution. Bottom of the sales funnel. Some will pay off, others will not. Morning in VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities. He began developing the business model for scoreAscore.com in October of 2008. to the masses… This is how The Grilled Cheese Truck was born! Matt McKinney – Founder of TiesForCharity.com. anything.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. no complex contracts or pricing schemes) or adopt (i.e. ► October (1) New Video!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit. We took $2.3

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Pricing information. Stackoverflow was created in 2008. His Tenure at Microsoft. Marketing materials.

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