TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

From lockdown in her Northern Italy home, Cevolini shared perspective on the future of motorcycling, acquisition offers and plans to recharge her company when the COVID-19 crisis subsides. general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Irvine-based Diverse Solutions , the developer of products to help real estate agents market their businesses and websites, which was acquired by Zillow last November, have gained a fun new employee perk from their acquisition: an annual "Ski Day". READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Follow-up is required for every sales lead, a pipeline built, and a sales process documented, with training for new reps. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Maintaining professional relationships.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Chatsworth-based MRV Communications , which designs and manufactures optical networking equipment, said late Monday afternoon that it has closed its sale of Tecnonet S.p.A. MRV said the sale will let it focus all of its energy on its network equipment business. to Maticmind S.p.A. MRV said it received approximately $21.5M

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JULY 20, 2018

Financial details of the sale were not announced. Esko is owned by Danaher, and develops software and hardware for package design. Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital said this morning that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, BLUE Software , to software company Esko.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 6, 2016

Camarillo-based analog and mixed signal semiconductor developer Semtech Corporation said on Monday that it has agreed to divest its Snowbush intellectual property (IP) business--which develops designs for high speed serial networking interfaces--to Rambus. in cash, along with a future royalty through 2022 based on sales.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The company said Kita had current year sales of estimated $17M. Kita designs, manufactures and sells spring probe contacts used in final test contactors, probe cards, PCB test boards and connectors. Cohua said it would pay $15M in cash for Kita, funded out of its cash reserves and through assumption of operating debt of $2.6M

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JULY 11, 2016

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies said late last week that it has completed the sale of the assets of its printed circuit technology business (Teledyne PCT), to FTG Circuits. The deal was worth $9.3M

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. So he would allocate say – 20% to sales, 15% to marketing, 20% to eng priorities, 10% to customer support, 10% to ops, 20% to ‘platinum customers’ and maybe 5% directly to me as the CEO.

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DECEMBER 26, 2008

Demo Systems is a designer and manufacturer of aircraft data loading equipment and software used by commercial airlines, the U.S. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, however, Teledyne said that Demo Systems had sales of $7.3M military and aircraft manufacturers. for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2007.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

If anything, the OculusVR acquisition in 2014 signaled that Facebook saw VR as a social final frontier. While VR startups raised plenty of cash in 2016 and 2017, slow headset sales have caused startups to focus on building for a virtual future that might take a couple more years to reach. The Social Experiment. Augmenting the Office.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

We care about consumer electronics, we care about consumer insights, we do a ton of engineering ourselves, and do most of the design of products ourselves. We have sales, marketing, PR, accounting, all in those facilities. It's been an outstanding marriage/partners/acquisition, whatever you want to call it.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. Ariel understood her customer?—?the Get Physical!

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Teledyne said that Baton Rouge-based Odom has designs and manufactures equipment for port survey, dredging, offshore energy and other applications. Odom had sales of roughly $10.9M Tags: instrumentation merger teledyne equipment hydrographic odom acquisition hardware. for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2008. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In speaking with Steve Bermudez, former senior executive at Citrix, I was surprised that he was able to make money on some of his leases, by baking into his agreements the ability for Citrix to share in the upside realized by its landlord upon a sale of the property. Greathouse: Agreed. Brilliant. .

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Demand Media, the internet publishing firm which is in the midst of an IPO effort, is the brainchild of Richard Rosenblatt, who was at the reins of Intermix, the parent firm of MySpace, and brokered the sale of MySpace to News Corporation. It's unclear if Platform G has any other acquisitions or projects up its sleeve. Let us know!

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans. Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors. Marty Zwilling First published on Predictable Designs on 06/10/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Follow-up is required for every sales lead, a pipeline built, and a sales process documented, with training for new reps. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Maintaining professional relationships.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

We are seeking a Product Marketing Manager, who plans, develops, and implements marketing programs designed to increase product penetration of commercial customers. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. To apply, go to [link].

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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” . This acquisition resolved the surgical robotic IP landscape and allowed Intuitive to dominate the market.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. It drives revenue & engages guests."

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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the CMO at HauteLook from the early days all the way through growing the business to 12 million registered users and far in excess of $200 million in annual sales. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub. .” I always felt the same. I made some reference calls. He was stubborn.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. The opportunity for an acquisition came from them.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. It''s sort of an Etsy for flowers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2008

said today that the firm's Delta Design subsidiary has agreed to acquire Rasco GmbH, a developer of semiconductor test equipment based in Munich, Germany. Cohu said that Rasco had sales of approximately $47M for the twelve months ended November 2008. Poway-based Cohu, Inc. Cohu was advised by Needham & Company in the deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Follow-up is required for every sales lead, a pipeline built, and a sales process documented, with training for new reps. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Maintaining professional relationships.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

All of the cars in the Fair app are pre-owned, but you can shop for any car for sale at any dealership. If you've played with the app, it has a very elegant user interface, and it's designed to be very easy to navigate. They don't have to pay for the sale, and we're not charging them for that customer.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. How profitable is my product or service?

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JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

It's as easy as Instagram, and takes no technical knowledge or sales knowledge. I read everything online I could about customer acquisition, marketing, design, and coding, and every part of the business I could. million visitors a month at RecycledBride , and we don't spend anything on acquisition. It was a crash course.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

We do everything from picking, packing, and shipping to customer service, fulfillment, and providing the technology that powers the e-commerce site, online marketing, creative design, and digital imaging and photography. The way we get compensated, is we receive a percent of net sales that flow through the website.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2010

After the Google acquisition of DoubleClick, I decided to build my own company. Our tool set is designed with that in mind, to make it easier for the operator to get in, find the information they need, and get out. We'll also keep building sales. The next thing is to build a great sales team. It shouldn't take a Ph.D.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

The sales process for solar in California is, although I don''t want to say it, archaic. But, more and more, technology is allowing homeowners to get on their computer, and design a solar system on their rooftop and get a quote for it. The majority of solar is people going door-to-door today. It''s not overly sophisticated.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

The new funding will enable Petnet to expand its product line and sales and marketing capabilities. billion acquisition ( disclosed last November ) by the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The startup does its R&D and design in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2013

We were limited to using products on the market, and we found that all of them were really designed for advertising networks and marketplaces using a traditional, affiliate model. Companies need a way to roll up all that data, and understand their cost of customer acquisition in a detailed way. It''s a problem for everyone.

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