socalTECH

JULY 6, 2018

In the filing, Sonos said it had revenues of nearly $1 billion for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2017, with $992.52M in revenues. The company had a net loss of $14.2M The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co, Allen & Company, RBC Capital Markets, Jeffries, KKR, Raymond James, and Stifel.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2018

The company reported a net loss of $385.8M The company said its daily active users (DAU) grew from 166 million in Q1 of 2017 to 191M in Q1 of 2018, which was up 15 percent year-over year. Venice-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat, missed its estimated revenue targets in Q1, reporting revenues of $230.7M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2017

Leaf Group disclosed the sale in its first quarter 2017 results, where it reported a net loss of $10.0M Leaf Group said it paid $12.0M for Deny Designs, split between $6.7M in cash plus approximately 215,000 shares of its common stock. Deny Designs was based in Denver, Colorado. on revenues of $27.238M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The move comes even as Activions Blizzard reported record net revenues in 2018 of $7.50 billion it had in revenues for 2017. Santa Monica-based game developer Activision Blizzard says it is slashing 8 percent of its staff, or nearly 800 employees, as a part of a restructuring effort at the company. bllion, up from the $7.02

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2018

The company, led by CEO Daniel Starr, said the growth came as a result of the earlier, $20M funding round it announced in May of 2017. The investor in that funding round was CEO Daniel Starr , along with what the company says are other high net worth individuals.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

AppFolio also announced its quarterly results, saying it had a net income of $2.797M on revenues of $35.87M for the three months ended June 30, 2017. Randall has been at AppFolio for the last nine years, most recently serving as Senior Vice President, AppFolio Property Manager. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 7, 2017

Saturday, May 13, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Robots, Computer Vision and Deep AI. Robots must perceive their environment and decide how to respond, so both computer vision and the new AI’s deep learning neural nets are pervasive and integral elements of robotics.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Shap continues to lose money, hand over first, reporting it had a net loss of $443.1M Snap said its daily active users (DAUs) grew to 178 million in Q3 of 2017, a 3 percent increase quarter-over-quarter. in the three months ended September 30th, on revenues of $207.9M. billion in stock-based compensation expenses.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 -- How To Get Your Startup Funded - Tips From Entrepreneur and Renowed Angel Investor Jason Calacanis. Then the dotcom bubble burst, and he wound up with a net worth of negative $10,000. Jason Calacanis founded Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs Inc, Mahalo, and Inside.com.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 22, 2020

It’s a strategy that has now netted the company $33 million in financing led by the Silicon Valley-based investment firm Altos Ventures and New York’s Left Lane Capital. Founded by David Cabello, Black and Mobile was started in 2017 by the 22 year-old college dropout.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We’ve just passed a year full of news about the role of technology companies in U.S. elections, democracy, free speech, fairness in hiring, sexual harassment, privacy, data security, and the future job market for humans in the age of robots and artificial intelligence.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017. Plenty of workers have had enough: In the final quarter of 2017, according to real estate company Redfin , more residents left San Francisco than any other major U.S. cities in the final quarter of 2017, with 10.4

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

I widened my net this year. The startups selected for this year’s list began, as it did last year, with a master list of companies screened by the San Diego Venture Group for its annual venture summit. I am grateful to Mike Krenn, the venture group’s president, for his help on this project.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

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”). Of course, both are impressive and both already exceed VC investments annually.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). The formula for the Net Promoter® Score is the percentage of customers who are detractors, subtracted from the percentage who are promoters (NPS=P-D). Marty Zwilling Published by Xerox Small Business Solutions on 07/31/2017. Detractors.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹. Assess On-Net Fiber Optic Maps. To determine if local providers have the coverage you need, start by assessing their on-net maps. They aren’t the only ones.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2019

In 1955, the company’s net work was $500,000 ($4.6 Mattel’s 2017 sales were $1.6 This is an especially remarkable feat, considering that America’s entire population at that time was 157 million, representing a sale to 1 out of every 1.7 million, inflation adjusted). Twenty years later, she sold the business to Spenco Medical.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

And once in a while, a defender uses his or her face, inadvertently, to block a ball spiked over the net. Everyone is waiting until 2017, when huge studies of the drugs’ ability to prevent heart attacks and strokes start to provide data. Data from the other three trials should come in late 2016 or early 2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007. Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

The net effect is that influencers can rely more heavily on the less expensive “pull” marketing, rather than traditional “push” marketing. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/02/2017. When services are unique, difficult to obtain, or available for a limited time, their value increases, and your influencer level goes up.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Editas, which could be the first of the group to begin human studies, wants to start a trial for a rare eye disease in 2017. ” Some academic researchers and biotech firms are building safety nets into other cutting-edge therapies. Editas’s approach to safety, she said, is a “thoughtful design.”

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

A Phase 2 trial of the drug, AMX0035, should start in late 2016 or early 2017. Frank Vinluan has more on Novan, which relied on a variety of high net worth individuals, rather than venture firms, to get to this point. —Cambridge-based PixarBio is raising $30 million in a reverse merger with an undisclosed public entity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

So while not one single Latino actor, director, writer or producer was nominated for the major awards in 2017 and the last major acting Latina win was 10 years ago and acting Latino win was 27 years ago — audiences are craving content that resonates with their experiences. Latinos drove 69% of total net increasing in U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2017

VCs don’t expect any serious corrections to valuations in 2017 and they seem to be taking financial discipline in later-stage companies more seriously valuing unit economics over “growth at any cost.” Again, I suspect they would be more concerned today about net neutrality, cyber security, immigration and trade more broadly.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. So Where Do I Personally Net Out? Trust doesn’t come back easily, which is why the role of regulation is so important.

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