TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

A former venture capitalist and the co-founder of the firm that would become Los Angeles’ largest, Upfront Ventures, Dietz decided to start his company as a response to what he sees as the largest problem that California faces. . “Garage conversions were a new concept for us,” Martin McCauley told Curbed Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Startup Culver City .Net 191

Berkonomics

JULY 16, 2020

The term of art is “compensating balances,” and certainly using existing cash to leverage new loans makes the company more liquid, but at a price, as the compensating balances cannot be touched and are essentially frozen for the duration of the bank loan. It may not be equity. How about asset-based lenders? Read the loan covenants carefully.

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Company Companies .Net Equity 156

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. And professional investors often penalize the company with lower-priced down rounds or expensive loans as a result.

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Venture Capital Product Marketing Resource 296

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2015

Mindbody is selling 7,150,000 share of its stock in its IPO, which would net $123.3M for the company if its prices at the high range. Companies in the IPO process will set an IPO trading range around the same time as they are on their institutional road show, to test interest from investors, before the actual pricing of the IPO.

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Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels .Net Pasadena 100

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Facebook parent-company saw its stock price get bludgeoned after a bad earnings report showcased that Apple’s ad-blocking changes are shaving billions off its books and the company’s crown jewel — the Facebook platform — has stopped growing and actually shrank this quarter. Image Credits: Facebook. the big thing.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors. Strategic investors validate a business, by their presence creating the very value they pay for with increased price per share purchased. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

Venture Capital 266

Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

When you first start your career as an investor (or when you first start writing angel checks) your main obsession is “getting into great deals.” You need shots on goal as not every one will go in the back of the net. Many angels I know have signed over more than their comfort level in just 12 months and then feel stuck.

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Funding Startup Writing Invest 294

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2013

Los Angeles-based digital advertising technology developer OpenX has launched a new service today, which it says will combine content optimization and ad monetization for publishers. Pricing on the new product was not announced. OpenX said it can the use that information to help improve advertising revenues.

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OpenX Content Services Advertising 159

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).

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Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

On a earnings call discussing its second quarter results, CEO Steve Streit said that it is seeing "significant" new card activations at both Walmart and other retailers, attributing the rise to both a tight credit card environment and increasingly expensive bank pricing models. The firm said it had net income of $4.6M READ MORE>>.

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Customer Custom .Net Southern California 160

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

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Technical Review Customer Custom Entrepreneur 143

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Audi revealed Tuesday evening in Los Angeles the e-tron Sportback as the German automaker begins to chip away at its plan to launch more than 30 electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids by 2025. The base price of the Sportback is 71,350 ($79,000). Audi was able to improve the range by increasing the net battery capacity.

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Design Los Angeles .Net Course 162

Berkonomics

AUGUST 21, 2013

Venture or angel-financed companies with plenty of working capital sometimes are immune to this need for some time into their growth, but at some point it will become clear that the cheapest form of finance is not equity in a growing enterprise.

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Capital .Net Equity Pricing 153

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”). They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 Simplifying: Revenue -. Operating Costs.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. And professional investors often penalize the company with lower-priced down rounds or expensive loans as a result.

Venture Capital 243

Venture Capital Product Resource Marketing 243

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

Because public shareholders usually take the short-term view, they want to see constant rises in the stock's price so they can sell their shares for a profit. Thus most startups I know don’t even mention the IPO exit option, when applying for angel funding, and most angel investors will react negatively if you do mention it.

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Startup Report IBM IBM 98

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. You've had prior success, and you've been an angel investors in companies here.

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Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 98

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors. It’s an option, even though an expensive one Strategic investors validate a business, by their presence creating the very value they pay for with increased price per share purchased.

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Venture Capital Invest Class Entrepreneur 174

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart. That’s OK.

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Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

Because public shareholders usually take the short-term view, they want to see constant rises in the stock's price so they can sell their shares for a profit. Thus most startups I know don’t even mention the IPO exit option, when applying for angel funding, and most angel investors will react negatively if you do mention it.

Startup 84

Startup Technical Review Report IBM 84

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

This is not atypical for “middle men” who often take 15–30% of the value of the sale If you’re shaking your head and thinking, “duh” I promise you that even some of the most sophisticated people I know get off track on this issue of “gross revenue” versus “net revenue.” They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 Not necessarily.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

People of Korean descent in Los Angeles are amongst the most entrepreneurial people I know — in technology but also in garments, fashion, food and so forth. After all, if people feel more of a safety net for trying and not succeeding more people are bound to try in the first place and more innovation is almost inevitable.

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Startup Press Blogging .Net 261

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

The firm is based in Los Angeles and Seattle. David Aronchick: When we first got started, although we had a number of connection through Fouad, I worked with my network in Los Angeles, and my network in Seattle, and we landed an angel investment split between both those Los Angeles and Seattle investors.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2012

One of the startups which is looking to tap into that growing community is Los Angeles-based InstaCanvas ( instacanv.as ), which is headed by Matt Munson. How does pricing on the photos work? They didn't care that much about the exact price it sold for, for them it was all about getting their artwork out there, and exposure.

Startup 153

Startup Pricing Sites Acquisition 153

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur''s Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Customer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 64

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 64

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Because public shareholders usually take the short-term view, they want to see constant rises in the stock's price so they can sell their shares for a profit. Thus most startups I know don’t even mention the IPO exit option, when applying for angel funding, and most angel investors will react negatively if you do mention it.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 87

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. I know it was over heated when a deal where I wrote one of the first checks on (as an angel, not VC) went out on AngelList. What about “angel&# investors?

Venture Capital 267

Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a recent book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 118

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 118

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

O’Neil said, “ScoreBig.com is the only business that offers consumers deep savings on tickets in a way that protects the brand of the property and the integrity of full-price sales.” ScoreBig.com , headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., Problem Solved. He brings to ScoreBig.com the much needed expertise for marketing and growth.

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Ticketmaster Entertainment Pricing Class 65

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers.

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IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The firm is co-founded by Jake Steinfeld, of Body by Jake, and ExerciseTV, and has received investment from prolific angel investor Ron Conway and Polar Capital, the investment firm of former Google President Tim Armstrong. Nick Desai: With FitOrbit, there's an extremely high value, at a low cost price. Thanks for talking with us.

Media 168

Media Pricing Sites Training 168

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. It is not a strong bargaining position for the CEO to ask for money to complete a product promised for completion with the previous round of funding.

Venture Capital 212

Venture Capital Product Resource Marketing 212

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

One Los Angeles company-- OneStop Internet (www.onestop.com) has created a growing business handling exactly that. The way we get compensated, is we receive a percent of net sales that flow through the website. There''s a lot of issues there around pricing and controlling MAP for their resellers.

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Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203