socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

San Diego-based Active Network has filed for an IPO, saying in its S-1 that it is looking to raise up to $150M. Active Network operates a network of online sports registration, community activity and group sites, and other related Internet services. The firm said it had a net loss of 37.8M on revenues of $242.8M

Activity 168

Activity Networking .Net San Diego 168

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. So can you successfully build a YouTube network? ” YouTube takes 45%.

Networking 366

Networking Media Content Customer 366

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2011

San Diego-based Active Network , the operator of sports registration and online community sites, said in a filing today that it had a net loss of $10.9M Revenues were up 15% from the quarter ending March 30, 2010, when the firm reported a net loss of $12.4M on revenues of $72.71M for the three months ended March 31, 2011.

Activity 145

Activity Networking .Net San Diego 145

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

Mike Mothner: The business today, is we are a digital agency focused on customer acquisition and growth for businesses of all types. Mike Mothner: With the acquisition of Standing Dog, which technically closed today, that added about 75 people to bring us to 260 employees. What has helped you grow to the size where you are now?

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Paid Search El Segundo SEO 100

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Wi-Fi network and distributed antenna systems provider Boingo Wireless is now officially owned by private equity investor Digital Colony, the two said on Wednesday. The deal also included assumption of $199M in Boingo's net debt obligations, which is included in the valuation. Digital Colony paid $14.00

.Net 113

.Net Equity Los Angeles Networking 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Magnite says the combined companies would have a full year, 2020 non-GAAP net revenue of $350 million. Magnite is acquiring SpotX from RTL Group.

Electronic Arts 100

Electronic Arts Hulu Advertising .Net 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( 200 on Wikipedia ), or another dating site/app ( over 1500 in the USA ). Net result and reward. As a startup advisor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. Ownership. Value creation.

Coach 137

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 137

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( 200 on Wikipedia ), or another dating site/app ( over 1500 in the USA ). Net result and reward. As a startup advisor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. Ownership. Value creation.

Coach 144

Coach Metrics Social Network Competition 144

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. These can become part of balancing your lifestyle, rather than part of the stress of business-driven networking.

Entrepreneur 148

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 148

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , the operator of a network of Wi-Fi access points, has reported its first quarterly results as a public company. The firm reported a net loss of $329,000, versus a net loss of $127,000 for Q1 last year. Boingo said it had revenues of $21.0M, up from $18.5M for the first quarter of 2010.

Report 124

Report .Net Los Angeles Networking 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , the operator of a global Wi-Fi hot spot network, has filed for an IPO, saying Friday afternoon that it is looking to raised up to $75M in an IPO. The firm reported it had net income of $1.4M on revenues of $65.715M for 2009, and net income of $5.67M on revenues of $59.0M

.Net 164

.Net Los Angeles Report Networking 164

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The firm reported net income of $1 billion on revenues of $3.7 billion in 2011 in its S-1, which is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs & Co., BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, and Allen & Company.

Southern California 113

Southern California Thousand Oaks .Net Google 113

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN). AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Net result and reward. As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. Ownership. Value creation. Reward your people.

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). Net result and reward. As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. Ownership. Value creation.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). An ad network (the middleman) might sell $500,000 in ads. Simplifying: Revenue -.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. These can become part of balancing your lifestyle, rather than part of the stress of business-driven networking.

Startup 77

Startup Equity Entrepreneur Course 77

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Someone needs to manufacture all of this hardware and network infrastructure to connect everything. At the time of acquisition, the press primarily asserted that Google bought Motorola to help protect Android’s legal intellectual property in court. ISP executives have publicly spoken about violating net neutrality.

Google 92

Google Web .Net Yahoo 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Net result and reward. As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. Ownership. Value creation. Reward your people.

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The Answer Is?

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The Answer Is?

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN). AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. These can become part of balancing your lifestyle, rather than part of the stress of business-driven networking.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 69

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Company 2 might represent an “ad mediation company” where the company gets paid by ad networks for running ads on publisher websites and the company in turn must pay the publisher 85% of the revenue it collects. Many software companies have 85–90% gross margins, which is why it has historically been a very attractive industry.

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

As noted in Net Profit Score , salespeople have used references as a means of establishing credibility with strangers for hundreds of years. Thus, cite quantified results, such as percentage growth in revenue, number of new accounts closed, Net Promoter Scores achieved, etc. Tags: Networking Partnerships The Fringe.

Startup 113

Startup .Net Organization Networking 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Last week, Altadena-based AdventureLink (www.adventurelink.com) announced that it raised a Series A funding round, for the firm's adventure travel reservation network. Kelly Tompkins: AdventureLink is a reservation network, which allows consumers and agents to book adventure travel around the world. Talk about your VoIP network?

Web 100

Web Altadena Sites Activity 100

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Along with Selling (see Be Like Sam ) and Networking (see Making Stone Soup and Personal Pitch ), negotiating is a vital startup skill. ALL of your employees must sell, network and spend the company’s money as if it were their own. Professional Negotiator. At Expertcity, I shared the cost savings with one of our Financial Analysts.

Startup 221

Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Email 221

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I realize that I am privileged to have the time and professional network to provide meaningful favors. Even favors that do not net positive results should be acknowledged and verbally appreciated. Tags: Entrepreneur Networking. I relish helping startups recruit executive talent and establish partnerships. Meredith Publishing.

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Help Networking Startup 210

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. ”).

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

But throughout the transition I had my safety net. 2) RightScale crossed the chasm pretty quickly from early adopters (Animoto and Zynga) to mainstream customers (The Associated Press and A&E Television Networks). The transition [from Citrix Online] to RightScale was similar. RightScale came about way fast and before I felt ready.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: The iPhone had been launched about 10-months earlier (tying users to an exclusive carrier with a crappy network) and most of the smartphone apps that had reached scale were games. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com> com> 4/25/08. to Jim, Kevin.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

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. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Do your homework before investing.

Startup 120

Startup Invest Equity Incubator 120

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

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. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Remember that 9 out of 10 startups fail in every realm.

Invest 89

Invest Entrepreneur Startup Equity 89

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

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. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Remember that 9 out of 10 startups fail in every realm.

Invest 73

Invest Startup Equity Incubator 73

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. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Remember that 9 out of 10 startups fail in every realm.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Invest Incubator 102