Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

A healthy manufacturing sector, likely to gain even more strength in 2015, is creating an impetus to invest. Recent drops in gas prices are now extending to diesel and even home heating oil. 2015 business optimism entrepreneur strategy' and is working its way back to pre-recession levels. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

In my experience, the top candidates will include the following: What if you have to cut your targeted price? Pricing is always a tricky issue. You need to quickly calculate the long-term impact on profitability of pricing and business model changes. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/20/2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

As of the end of 2015, Pernix reported a headcount of 274. million in net revenue last year, its highest sales mark since becoming a public company in 2010, according to its annual report. But filings also show the company’s net losses widening each year since 2012. million net loss. Last year, Pernix reported a $148.3

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: Fortunately, after turning down Jeff, we co-led the first priced round in RingRevenue (now known as Invoca ), along with Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

In 2015, a worker in the San Francisco Bay Area earning $100,000 a year would need to put their entire post-tax salary into renting a three-bedroom apartment. Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017. But, you’d be wrong, according to a new report out from LinkedIn.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Its owner Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) shelved it this week , citing poor Phase 3 data and pricing pressures on the two approved PCSK9 drugs. —Several other biotechs released ASH abstract data, and the net effect was a drop in most stocks. One latecomer, bococizumab, won’t even reach approval. MONEY IN, MONEY OUT.

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