Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. Maker Studios?—?sold

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

The e-commerce retailer said it saw 146 percent, year-over-year sales growth from its marketplace, which lists products from third party retailers. Buy.com said 46 percent of its orders in Q4, and more than 50 percent of its Q1 2010 site orders came from the Buy.com Marketplace, and that the sales were behind its strong Q4 2009.

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Commerce Sales Sites Product 150

Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

Unlike digital advertising, the primary goal in enterprise software is to get someone else to sell your product. Not at all, a direct sales force is the most expensive channel to take a product to market. To sell enterprise software, sales employees are trained to sell through channels. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?

Advertising 59

Advertising Sales Software Platform 59

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology , the provider of computer memory products, reported today that it has hit a record, $6.5 billion increase in its sales over 2009. billion in revenues in 2010. The firm said the amount is the highest ever in company history, and was a $2.4

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Technology Demand Pricing Sales 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

Here are some example strategies to pitch and practice: Adapt an existing product to a new use. You may offer a different application for an existing product, a new pricing model, or a new level of support. Or find an entirely different application for an existing product. Innovation doesn’t even require technology.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Examples Google 129

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2010

According to Valeant, the un-named firm is focused on branded generics and over-the-counter products, and has annual sales of approximately 49 million Brazilian reals in 2009. Name of the Brazilian firm was not announced. The acquisition is the firm's second in Brazil in the last month. last month.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Business model: Premium brands offer select goods (often excess inventory) for sale at 40%-70% discounts; consumers need to be invited by existing member or via application to participate in private sales; HauteLook collects percentage of gross sale.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Time will tell.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Camarillo-based Power-One , which manufactures power supplies and power conversion products, disclosed Thursday that the firm has reduced its headcount by another 300 employees. The revelation came as part of the firm's Q2 2009 results, when the firm said it had net sales of $91.2M, a 39% decrease from the $149.3M READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Future growth and vitality requires equal attention to different metrics, including customer satisfaction, partnership growth, time to market tracks for new products, and internal change counts. Amazon, for example , “grew up” in the last recession by continuing to expand their range of products and focused on automation.

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Metrics Training Satisfaction IBM 122

Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. When Eric departed to pursue other things, a new partner stepped in with years of experience building and running community and product teams at AOL. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co

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Media News Organization Content 175

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. 5 years ago.

Venture Capital 387

Venture Capital Downey Writing Press 387

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. but that’s our firm’s money on your balance sheet.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

They recommend up-sells and cross-sells of products. Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. Purchasing high-value or complex products is still way more effective person-to-person. They know what you bought the last time you were shopping.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. We built the first, networkable contact management product, Goldmine, to run on top of Novell. Congrats on being accepted to Microsoft's Accelerator. Explain that?

Startup 113

Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. You hit submit, and your images are instantly available for sale as prints on our website. 2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. had their first sales, which made us profitable. I knew, if you.

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Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In many ways that might be one way to interpret even Facebook where Sheryl stepped in as COO but by all accounts ran much of Facebook for a few years (other than product). I’m excited to see what Nick can product. I remain as childishly giddy at Nick’s vision as I did in our conference hangout we had in 2009.

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CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. What is Recycled Bride? month Recycled Bride Pro account.

Design 84

Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Government customers abundantly waste both of these assets by negatively impacting a startup’s cash flows while causing it to spend unnecessary time participating in laborious approval processes and elongated sales cycles. This is nearly impossible to quickly determine when the sales process is rigidly defined by arbitrary rules.”

Startup 207

Startup Outsource Development Software Review Sales 207

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus.

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Gogii Invest Blogging Activision 310

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

But he went on run North American sales for Legent where they grew from $28 million to $700 million under his leadership and helped sell the company to CA for nearly $2 billion. When we first funded the company in 2009 we knew there was a big opportunity to help businesses automate marketing through phone channels.

Demand 150

Demand SaaS Startup Press 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely.

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Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009. In 2009, we immediately approached the law firm market because we knew it so well, and because we had lots of relationships from over the years. We'll also be building up new and exciting products.

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

In the Harvard Business Review Female Economy 2009 report, women purchasing power was predicted to control about $28 trillion in annual global consumer spending, if not more. Purchasing products from a brand you trust can be more of an emotional buy, and trust is one of the key factors to attracting the female shopper. Tasteful Humor.

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Tips Custom Customer Dollar Shave Club 71

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010.

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Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The internet connects us to billions of products online. Stacey Horowitz, Founder of SFAC, started the non-profit business from a trip to Peru in 2009. Since its 2010 launch, SFAC tripled their sales and growth. Online merchandise range from being silly to creative design to daily items. based charities shoppers get to choose.

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Social Media Sites Organization Help 87

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. 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. It is no wonder why they had less time for new deals.

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Venture Capital Startup Funding Invest 263

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

Almost any name of a product or service, and many generic domain names are available in.LA. Page Howe: I've been a fan of the domain since 2008 and 2009, having grown up in LA, lived here, and seen the story here through the good and the bad. Between 2004 and 2009, things were driven by Google's search engine algorithms.

Social Network 100

Social Network Startup Mobile Google 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In the US alone there are 30 billion inbound sales calls every year. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). Calls are changing but not dying.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

InfoChachkie

MAY 11, 2015

Government prospects abundantly waste both, by negatively impacting a startup’s cash flows while causing it to spend unnecessary time participating in laborious approval processes and elongated sales cycles. It is downright criminal to lose a hard-fought sale because of crony capitalism. A Middle Ground.

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Startup Sales Competition Customer 100

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. What is Laughstub? So, how long has the company been around? We currently reach 1.3

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

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. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

Years before Hello Flo’s “The Camp Gyno” video existed, in 2009, Orabrush, a tongue cleaner company, was setting the precedent for what would be how to make a million dollars in ecommerce sales utilizing YouTube marketing. Dollar Shave Club production team: 10,891,788 views. Production Company: Hayden 5 Media. . .

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Dollar Shave Club Custom Customer Marketing 101