socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The company--which recently went public via a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC)--said its new Multi Purpose Delivery Vehicle is based on the same platform as its subscription-only van. The company claims it will be able to deliver the new vehicle in 2022, with a starting price of $33,000. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2021

Rowe Price, according to the company. Financial details of that acquisition were not announced. The company said the new funding will be used to continue expanding Seismic's platform, R&D, and global footprint. Seismic has now raised $440M in total funding. Seismic has now raised $440M in total funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Or if they do they should do so without raising venture capital so that they can still be acquired for reasonable prices. I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. But in any platform community this happens.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2020

Los Angeles-based ServiceTitan , which develops a cloud-based software platform used by residential and commercial service contractors to manage their businesses, has acquired Pointman , a New York-based company that develops software for contractors. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2017

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY , the developer of cloud-based business management software for spas and the wellness services industry, has acquired Lymber Wellness , a startup that provides yield management and pricing software for class and appointment-based businesses. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

One question I often hear from solo entrepreneurs, and she addresses directly, is “How do I set the right price for my services?” The simple answer is to balance supply and demand, but here are some specific considerations that she and I both proclaim as key factors: Use project pricing rather than hourly rates. Marty Zwilling.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Tapping into a growing consumer interest in higher quality, and more traceable food, it saw an opportunity to build a platform to link up producers to the consumers, restaurants and grocery stores that were buying their products. software platform. GrubMarket has snapped up no less than 40 companies in the last three years.

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Tech.Co

MAY 6, 2022

Now, it's dramatically expanding capacity in another area, fulfillment, with the acquisition of Deliverr. It's the biggest acquisition in Shopify's history. We've already rated Shopify's software offering fairly highly, and this huge acquisition makes Shopify look even better moving forwards. Shopify is paying $2.1

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Foothill Ranch-based LoanDepot, a developer of a technology platform to automate and originate mortgage loans, has raised $54M in an IPO on the NYSE. per share, below its estimated IPO pricing of 15.1M The company sold 3.9 million shares of its stock at $14.00 shares of stock at between $19.00

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Sonos said on Wednesday afternoon that it has acquired Snips , a developer of an artificial intelligence platform for enabling voice interaction with connected devices. for Snips, subject to purchase price adjustments and holdbacks. According to Sonos, it paid approximately $37.5M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based HyreCar , a publicly listed, carsharing marketplace operator (Nasdaq: HYRE), says it has priced an offering of 3.5M The stock offering will provide the company gross proceeds of $10.5M, which it says it will use to expand sales and marketing, customer support, and technology investments to continue to grow its platform.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform. billion of purchases made through the Klarna platform. They can also do things like initiate refunds, track deliveries and get price-drop notifications. billion valuation.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2013

DoubleBeam said that the deal will help it deliver a turnkey mobile commerce platform that includes an integrated POS system. GoPago''s Android-based systems had been aimed at the small to medium sized business market, and compares very well price-wise with legacy POS systems, according to Tekippe. READ MORE>>.

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SoCalTech Commerce Pasadena Mobile 159

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Irvine-based Local Corporation , the publisher of online business guides and directories, as well as operator of the Spreebird.com daily deals site, said today that it has launched a new rich media ad platform. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 16, 2019

The New York-based company was founded last year by Gina Bartasi, a fertility industry vet who previously launched Progyny, a fertility benefit solution for employers, and FertilityAuthority.com, an information platform and social network for people struggling with fertility. But are these really high retail prices sustainable long term?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

What we are pursuing actively, is creating a curated, merchandising and transaction platform, which takes inventory from dealers so that consumers see a wide swath of inventory, all prioritized around value. We're really focused on the consumer getting the right car at the right price.

Startup 124

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. Implement a plan of regular strategic acquisitions.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2020

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A financial buyer will analyze your numbers, past and forecast, to the n’th degree, and calculate the price based upon the result, after carefully comparing your numbers with those of others in the same and similar industries. The price negotiated is not at all the critical factor in the emotional sale.

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Steve Reich

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And by learning from other bankers through the Bankers Helping Bankers platform. Treat working with a FinTech as free customer acquisition–their venture capital money can bring you new customers and detailed data about their activity. Time will tell, but the price is right. That last point got my attention. Across the US.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We give way 500Mb of free data to all of our users, and users can also early additional, free minutes for connecting to their friends on the platform and participating on partner offers and promotions. We've got less infrastructure, and we're not having to pay hundreds of dollars for consumer acquisition. GB of data each month.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

One question I often hear from solo entrepreneurs, and she addresses directly, is “How do I set the right price for my services?” The simple answer is to balance supply and demand, but here are some specific considerations that she and I both proclaim as key factors: Use project pricing rather than hourly rates.

Pricing 68

Pricing Entrepreneur Mentor News 68

TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

The company raised more than $550 million after pricing at $17 per share a little over a week ago. Shopify quietly acquires Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing . As Amex scoops up Resy, a look at its acquisition history . Luckin Coffee, if you aren’t familiar, is Starbucks’ Chinese rival.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. Equally, the streaming business has got to accelerate content acquisition, focus on customer retention, improve streaming technologies to make it better for users / worse for competitors, and they’ve got to continually improve the UI. this service will continue.

Netflix 329

Netflix Evite Pricing Hulu 329

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. We can do better.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses. Nice sweep! When he left I called him immediately.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

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]. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Of course, nothing is totally free, and I have heard the horror stories of relatively small companies finding thirty or more employees spending most of their time scanning and using social media for promotions, or engaging high-priced consultants who never seem to be able to show any real return for all of their efforts.

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Social Media Media Tool Startup 99

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked, Cloud-based enterprise platform for deal management and investor reporting, Wednesday announced a new suite of enterprise features in a move to take transactions mobile. Jackson added, “Their pricing and technology are hold-overs from the 1990s—it goes to show how they have been shielded from competition for too long.

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Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think everybody heard about this acquisition. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform. M&A Discussion.

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Both Sides of the Table

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. This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). from Charter’s subscribers.

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Product Course Custom Customer 296

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

According to recent statistics , there are already over 500 website crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter , available; and over $5 billion was raised this way last year. These funders often offer convertible notes, rather than the traditional priced equity. Here they are: A crowdfunding campaign. A seed-stage “super angel.”

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding 104

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. The Importance of Twitter. That is what I Tweeted when I saw DataSift present as a finalist at TC Disrupt last year.

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