socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

San Diego-based RF Industries , which designs and manufactures interconnect and cable assemblies for the wireless, medical, and industrial market, said today that it has acquired Comnet Telecom Supply. Financial terms of the cash and stock deal were not disclosed.

San Diego 138

San Diego Acquisition Design Product 138

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Why you should never have a data room?—?the Let me start out with my premise: “Data rooms are where fund-raising processes go to die.” Often they ask for access to your “data room” so they can do analysis on whether this would be a good investment for them or not. The data room is where your process goes to die.

Funding 336

Funding Venture Capital Startup Email 336

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand said Tuesday afternoon that it has agreed to acquire Evolv , a machine learning and data science company based in San Francisco. in debt and issue Evolv''s employees up to 200,000 shares of its common stock. Cornerstone will pay approximately $42.5M in cash, plus assume up to 2.0M READ MORE>>.

Cornerstone OnDemand 147

Cornerstone OnDemand Artificial Inteligence Santa Monica Resource 147

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. I’ve definitely been wrong on market value.

Funding 294

Funding Startup Writing Invest 294

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Westlake Village-based online advertising company Conversant --which until recently was known as ValueClick--is now officially part of Alliance Data , after the completion of Alliance Data''s acquisition deal with the company. Alliance Data said it paid $1.3 billion in stock and approximately $1 billion in cash for Conversant.

Westlake Village 138

Westlake Village Southern California Advertising Acquisition 138

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

Venture Capital 471

Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US. Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar. These numbers are based off of reported data in Crunchbase, exclude private equity rounds and do not account for deals that may have already been closed but haven’t been publicly announced yet.

Venture Capital 231

Venture Capital SaaS News Los Angeles 231

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

.” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. Of course sentiment can swing wildly with new information but I set out to take the pulse of the market as we enter 2016. State of the Market.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Course Marketing 150

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and called many of our peers for confirmation. If you look even more closely you’ll see just how skewed the data really is. $21 More on that later.

Venture Capital 292

Venture Capital Capital Startup Funding 292

Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

CEO’s worry that investors will not keep the information confidential and that financial data will find its way into competitors’ hands. Shareholders may vote on other issues during the year by written consent, including acquisitions, stock issuances, changes to the articles of incorporation and bylaws, and more.

Class 202

Class Report Competition .Net 202

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

It's the age of smartphones and mobile data, where there are now apps gathering an immense amount of information about where we are, what stores we visit, and what we are doing. How do you make sense of all that data and actually help it to drive business decisions? What kind of decisions and data are those businesses using?

Advertising 100

Advertising Mobile Social Media Startup 100

Berkonomics

AUGUST 20, 2020

Paying commissions to undisclosed third parties in order to obtain deals, hiding or entering misleading financial data, associating with anyone with a past SEC suspension, and many more “gotcha” events, qualify as strong deterrents to a good closing. What about events you can’t control?

Press 177

Press Pricing Email Activity 177

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In a year filled with challenging news, we were fortunate (across Archer Venture Capital and Liquid Stock) to have some high quality exits in our portfolio, but moreover to see how our amazing entrepreneurs successfully managed the disruption caused by COVID-19. I'm very excited to see 2021 come and very happy to see 2020 go.

Venture Capital 124

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Brentwood 124

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the stock and cash acquisition will see all nine members of the current Boundless team join Thrive Global. We’re thrilled to see the continued growth and market expansion at Thrive Global” said Somesh Dash, General Partner at IVP and member of Thrive Global’s Board of Directors.

Artificial Inteligence 226

Artificial Inteligence Seed Funding Startup Screening 226

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7. I thought, however, that people would really love to share stock ideas on this, in a one-to-many relationship, basically a bunch of Jim Cramers sharing and talking about stocks in 140 characters.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This should be a validation of prior assessments, based on any recent changes in trends, economic conditions and customer feedback data. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Traction in the marketplace. Marty Zwilling

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 118

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship raised $40 million Series A led by Morpheus Ventures back in 2019, and last January according to Pitchbook data also raised a further $17 million with strategic backers TDK Ventures (the investment arm of the Japanese electronics giant) and Goodyear Ventures among the investors. It has now made more than 2.5

Invest 233

Invest Technology Startup Los Angeles 233

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

Sales 282

Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

In today''s electronic world, there is an immense number of data sources creating millions of data points that companies are hoping to make sense of. That data--if you could just find the right piece--could be useful in a number of areas, particularly in the financial markets. Why did you start in that market?

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Inverted Software

JANUARY 2, 2019

GPUs are designed for graphics and image processing and are extremely good at math calculations, in fact, their highly parallel structure makes them more efficient than general-purpose CPUs for algorithms that process large blocks of data in parallel. Miners that stocked their rigs with Nvidia GPUs, prompting the stock to rise.

Class 58

Class Sales Demand Marketing 58

socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2010

Emulex said it would pay $78M in cash and eight million shares of its common stock for ServerEngines, or a total of approximately $159M based on Emulex's closing price Friday. Emulex said that the buy will expands its total addressable market by around $350M. READ MORE>>.

Networking 145

Networking Acquisition Pricing Marketing 145

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

I don''t know if you recall, but they make stock market brokerage systems, and have some 80 percent share of the market. We were sending lots of software updates to our customers, which came on a large number of floppies, and I came up with the idea--in the pre-Internet days--to use our data feeds.

Startup 214

Startup Symantec Commerce Software 214

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2010

in a combination of cash and stock, and was originally announced on January 5th. Dot Hill said it expects the buy to help it expand beyond the storage array market, into the higher margin storage software market. Tags: hill data storage merger acquisition cloverleaf virtualization communications. READ MORE>>.

Acquisition 133

Acquisition Software Review .Net Pricing 133

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2010

BakBone did not say how many employees were affected, but said the move would help it focus on its core storage and data protection markets. in cash and stock for ColdSpark. BakBone said it will be closing its entire division, and record an impairment charge of $12.6M Bakbone had said in May of 2009 that it would pay $15.9M

Email 133

Email San Diego Software Help 133

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2009

San Diego-based Bakbone Software , a developer of data protection and backup software, announced this morning that it has acquired "certain assets" of Asempra Technologies. Tags: bakbone asempra data storage merger acquisition backup. The deal is worth approximately $1.9M. The deal is worth approximately $1.9M. Venture Partners.

San Diego 100

San Diego Acquisition Software Funding 100

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 19, 2018

She also serves on the board of Shoes of Prey, a custom shoe company currently aimed at the women’s market. Now she’s taking an ops position at one of the biggest players in the sneaker market. Along with StockX , GOAT has brought a huge amount of access and pricing transparency to resale sneakers, a billion-plus market.

Marketing 203

Marketing Sales Platform Los Angeles 203

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2010

shares of its common stock. Dot Hill said the buy would broaden its reach into storage virtualization, data management services software, and the unified storage market. The deal is worth $2.5M in cash plus approximately $9.5M Cloverleaf has headquarters in New York, with research and development in Israel.

Acquisition 133

Acquisition Research Software Services 133

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2022

Even then, the business and leadership efforts to solicit and manage donations cost real money, and may be more difficult than the marketing and sales jobs of most startups. Also, they can’t sell shares on the stock exchange to raise money, even though both the NYSE and Nasdaq are non-profits. unless it relies wholly on donations.

Organization 100

Organization Satisfaction Class Startup 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which operates a secondary marketplace for privately held company shares, is expanding the amount of third party research on its market. According to the firm, it has added Blueshift Research and Liquid Scenarios as providers of private company research and data to its subscribers. READ MORE>>.

Research 133

Research eHarmony Santa Monica Incubator 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

Using big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, REX takes care of everything both buyers and sellers need, while removing traditional agent commissions of 5-6%. Jack Ryan: I was at Goldman Sachs for 20 years, and people used to think floor brokers on the New York Stock Exchange move shares. They don't.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Woodland Hills Orange County Startup 113

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Paul Graham provides what is roughly the core formula for equity at any point in The Equity Equation : You can use the same formula when giving stock to employees, but it works in the other direction. Stock vests for 4 years. The key in his approach is that equity compensation should be viewed the same way that you view investment.

Equity 391

Equity CTO Hire Startup Examples 391

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

This should be a validation of prior assessments, based on any recent changes in trends, economic conditions and customer feedback data. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Traction in the marketplace. Marty Zwilling.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. I suspect those days will end soon, and 61% of LPs polled said they felt VCs were coming back to market too quickly.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Capital Marketing Seed Funding 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2012

Business plans with no “industry expert” data on your target opportunity size and growth are routinely rejected. Your business plan must have an “Opportunity” section, where industry market size and growth projections are included. On or off the Internet, there are dozens of reputable market research reports available for purchase.

Marketing 97

Marketing Entrepreneur Research Statistics 97

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2019

What we're able to do, is build that dream for smaller hotels who may not have the resources, they come to us, we bring all the disparate systems and data together, and we create a really great guest experience. Alonso Vargas: We knew there was a big market out there for digital content, especially as the iPhone came out.

Mobile 113

Mobile Startup Platform Web 113

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. His latest startup, Factual, is aimed at the data mashup and open data market.

Southern California 228

Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228