Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets. This often works best if you find a company similar to yours with great potential, but drowning in debt, or short on the necessary skills. License your product to a partner or alliance.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

Pernix Therapeutics is slashing its headcount by more than 20 percent as the specialty pharmaceutical company tries to move toward profitability after a streak of acquisitions. Morristown, NJ-based Pernix (NASDAQ: PTX ) will cut 60 workers , mostly from its neurology sales staff, the company said today. million net loss.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 18, 2012

In the beginning there were few variations of domain types you purchase as you had a selection of.com,net, or.org. During this years 2012 SXSW the team behind the.CO domain were our in force educating entrepreneurs and the like that a company should be on a.CO CO standing for company). Will you get your company a.CO

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 7, 2015

In 2012 I sold a modest business that I co-founded for $2 million and split the proceeds evenly with my business partner. I was very appreciative of this windfall, as the company was essentially a lifestyle business that my co-founder and I never expected to sell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). billion collected in 2012. Professional venture capitalists will tell you the same thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Professional venture capitalists will tell you the same thing. Investing in startups is a numbers game.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She put all of her savings into her company. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once by not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. and.me, as well as allowing companies to set up their own top-level domains. Only one sold for 7 figures in 2012 (investing.com sold for $2.5 Starting and name a company today is a world-wide decision.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

On July 27, 2012 the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee produced the Mobile App Hackathon in Los Angeles, California. Developers were allowed to code in any language they were most comfortable with including Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, and XNA. Here is a list of the winners.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming. Before working in California, Chris worked for Maryland based game companies MicroProse and Games Workshop. 1 st Street Partners provides strategic management services to technology, entertainment and consumer goods companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term is currently applied to recent startups who profess a current valuation which exceeds $1 billion. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Could your startup be the next one?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Earlier in his career, O’Neil honed his sales and marketing expertise with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, where he became vice president of sales, and the New Jersey Nets, where he began his career as a marketing assistant. He brings to ScoreBig.com the much needed expertise for marketing and growth.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Miselu presented their first prototype, neiro, this year at SXSW for an early debut of what is to come from the company. Miselu is his third company, the first in consumer electronics. Press, Pause, Play ‘s message of mediocrity is one that musical hardware device maker of this year’s SXSW, Miselu , plans to overcome.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The reality, however, of the coexistence between immigrants and their American peers is proving to be a one-sided pursuit, with qualified immigrants struggling to stay in the country to join the companies that they have co-founded. To speed growth, some companies and venture capitalists, most notoriously Blueseed, feel so strongly about “U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

CircleUp is an online social marketplace that supports direct equity investments from individual investors to small private consumer and retail companies. So this past October 2012, after years of investigative scientific research “ Electrified ” became a reality. It was epic to be pitching a company from such a grand venue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. To be clear we will continue to see great infrastructure companies built and these will mostly come from Silicon Valley. All great communication companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. We get a lot more emails from women entrepreneurs who say they are a high net worth in their community and we should come and help boost the number of angel investors in their companies. Men have dominated the world of investment. Entrepreneurs are everywhere and capital isn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. And he led what is currently our best performing company out of that 2012 fund – AdoreMe. ” I told everybody I wasn’t going to and I meant it. Those styles go well together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. But these requirements may go away with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act passed into law back in 2012. Startups are private companies with no common document filing requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Public companies with stock usually have industry analysts and SEC filings to give investors a quick view of the company stock value. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 9/21/2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

New and old interactive companies alike have been wrangling their online communities for panelpicker votes since mid-August when voting commenced for a coveted shot to win a chance to present their vision to a guaranteed crowd of A-List digital and tech influencers that will gather together in Austin, TX the week of March 8, 2013.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

October 5, 2012. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News.

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