Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2019

To hear some people talk, you’d think the age of bipartisan action in Congress was a lost phenomenon of the distant past. And no one knows it better than the big Silicon Valley tech companies that are the recent targets of proposed bipartisan bills. But it’s not so, at least when it comes to certain issues.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Some types of businesses generate more and more recurring revenues over time, often growing to a size where recurring revenues pay all of the overhead of the company – an enviable position. There is a phenomenon I have observed time after time with mature companies receiving over 75% of their revenues from recurring sources.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company. If there was ever a time to start a company, this is it.”. Determining the perfect moment to enter the startup market, whether by creating a company or joining an ongoing venture, is akin to timing the financial markets. “The

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The service is being tested first in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, the company said. The company said that Bird Pay was created directly in response to requests from businesses themselves — who will be using the app to promote deals near to where Bird users pick up or drop off scooters.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

companies’ largest VC raised in 2018 , and no surprise here: the 10 largest rounds all topped out well north of $100 million. A major driver of global venture dollar growth is the relatively recent phenomenon of companies raising $100 million or more in a single venture round. companies have raised $38.4 Although U.S.-based

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

And I found from experience – after investing in many other entrepreneurial businesses over the years – that this stage typically occurs first at about twenty employees or $3 million in net revenues (or gross profit) for most any kind of company. In future weeks, we will dissect this $3 million-dollar phenomenon separately.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Proving that you can apply the "daily deal" phenomenon to just about any transaction, Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com said today that it has launched its own, deal service it says was inspired by Groupon and LivingSocial. Edmunds is tapping Group Commerce Inc. for the social buying technology behind the service. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 28, 2019

The Fortnite phenomenon — the wildly popular battle royale game from Epic Games — has manifested itself in concerned articles , cultural shoutouts and now has sealed its place in the cultural firmament by wrapping up its first “World Cup” which saw the company give away $30 million in prizes.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At least one million people will be receiving the next FabFitFun box as the Los Angeles company surpasses $200 million in revenue and continues its run as one of the startups to watch in the Los Angeles tech community. . ” With all of that, replenishment is not a focus for the company at the moment.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 30, 2011

Although we did not work at the same company (I was at CallWave and my friend was at SIPphone), during the mid 2000s, we both had the misfortune of attempting to entice cellular carriers to adopt the unique features enabled by VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) technology. Witnessing The Idiot’s Dilemma. I doubt it.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Ransomware is a prime example of this phenomenon. Achieving accredited certification to ISO 27001 demonstrates that your company is following information security best practice. Such attacks comprise both a technological component – the malware – but it is most often spread through social engineering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools. Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age , and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2015

Beckett, who is a physician, was previously founder and CEO of digital media and content production company EQAL. Beckett was the creator of the Internet YouTube phenomenon "lonelygirl15". Silversheet is looking to streamline the long and laborious process of getting physicians credentialed for local hospital privileges.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2015

In fact, one of Uber’s investors recently said the company could be worth more than $40 billion with an estimated annual growth of an astounding 800 percent. As time goes on, Uber may very well be known as a big data company as much as a transportation service, and some are worried that might be taking things too far.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

This Ain''t Your Daddy''s Music Company. Question: I began our discussion by asking Brandon about his role in last summer''s phenomenon, telling him, "I don''t know whether we should be thankful or be hateful of you for helping get the Harlem Shake phenomenon going. It''s a fascinating phenomenon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2021

Elon Musk with Tesla and SpaceX may be the most current example of this phenomenon, but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), Joe Costello (Cadence Design), and Howard Schultz (Starbucks). Joe Costello was known to dress up as Frankenstein and the Riddler for company functions, and wasn’t afraid to laugh at himself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2010

A spin-off is merely a startup spawned by a mature parent (company), and conventional logic would dictate that it has a survival advantage over the lowly startup. I was part of one myself a few years ago, and felt the pain, so the phenomenon has intrigued me ever since. Grow faster , which a spin-off can do outside the parent company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. I often answer the same way … * “First, yes, nearly every corner of our market is over-valued. By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2012

San Diego-based Avalon Ventures , one of the venture capital investors in social gaming phenomenon Zynga , may be set to cash in on its shares of the newly public gaming firm, after Zynga said this week that it is planning a $400M, secondary offering of its stock.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In my experience as an employee, up to an executive, in large companies as well as small, I’ve found that people who are consistently negative and complain are a big constraint on productivity, as well as the most difficult management problem that most business leaders face.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2018

A Crunchbase News analysis of residential-focused real estate startups uncovered a raft of companies with a shared and temporary housing focus that have raised funding in the past year or so. specific phenomenon. Collectively, those three companies have raised about $300 million to date. Seeking roommates and venture capital.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

AccessEN will sponsor a keynote presentation by acclaimed author and columnist Mark Gibbs on the Twitter phenomenon and the value of market intelligence that companies can glean from social network analysis.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

What do you get when you mix the desert around Mojave, two months in a Van Nuys warehouse, an MIT engineer, and a band which has risen to prominence as a YouTube phenomenon? Not a tech startup, but one of the more intriguing ads debuted during the Super Bowl on Sunday.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2019

“Games are closer to digital apps than back in the days of the console and companies should ship it like an ecommerce concept… If adoption of the game is going to be the decision factor of whether a game fails or succeeds…why isn’t the adoption fo the game tested before the title is built or while the game is being conceived?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We had great news in 2018 from the companies weve invested in and supportive over the years. Prevoty was acquired by public company Imperva for $140M, and Rentlytics was acquired by public-company RealPage for $64 million. It was entertaining to be at the (geographical) epicenter of that phenomenon.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 9, 2018

Here is a phenomenon I discovered over time when dealing with many small start-ups in their early revenue period. A very predictable series of rotating crises seemed to befall most every one of these young companies. Explaining the rotating series of crises. The third crisis: working capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. But not many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2023

Influence is more important than ever in today’s connected world as brands, companies, and individuals vie to become the next big phenomenon. Do you have any idea how much influence your company commands today, and what is your business doing to extend that influence to the bottom line? Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

Prior to then the concept of “seed funds” barely existed and as I’ve argued before the seed fund phenomenon was largely driven by: Open source + horizontal computing + Amazon AWS. In other words, it isn’t that VCs suddenly got smart, it’s that the costs of starting a company went down dramatically. Rise of Angels. I Leaderless Rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

(If you want to watch my interview from 7 years ago it’s here or you can read the summary notes I wrote up ) Derek built Startup Grind from 2011 with 20 people in one room for a conference into a global phenomenon with 600 chapters all over the world and more than 2 million members. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a That hasn’t changed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

The law of large numbers, platforms that can make your company blow up unexpectedly and the trendy nature of tech markets can be deceiving. I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

It seems out of nowhere it has become the go to website for startup companies to launch their new products or businesses. Companies like Twitter were really cultivated by the TechCrunch enthusiast crowd long before celebs, comedians and politicians were on Twitter. So I set out to understand this phenomenon a bit more deeply.

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Berkonomics

JULY 30, 2011

Here is a phenomenon I discovered over time when dealing with many small start-ups in their early revenue period. A very predictable series of rotating crises seemed to befall most every one of these young companies. Surprise. Do these sound familiar?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 23, 2009

This conference will feature many of today's most successful, multi-platform companies representing the latest emerging business models shaping the gaming industry. Will iPhone gaming finally lead to mobile gaming becoming a mass-market phenomenon? See [link].

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2009

This conference will feature many of today's most successful, multi-platform companies representing the latest emerging business models shaping the gaming industry. Will iPhone gaming finally lead to mobile gaming becoming a mass-market phenomenon? See [link].

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

This growth led Jed Christiansen to base his master thesis on the impact and efficacy of the phenomenon. I started our conversation by asking Brad if he felt the recent surge in accelerators and incubators reflected a replay of the phenomenon we witnessed a decade ago, when incubators largely failed to generate reasonable financial returns.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led. Then I started working for these companies as well.

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