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. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

Startup 84

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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. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

Startup 87

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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. The other founding investors are Ron Conway, who you know, and Polar Capital Group, Tim Armstrong fund.

Media 168

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

Entrepreneur 376

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

As described in Venture Debt , sophisticated investors generally say “No” to the Million Dollar Question, as they typically demand a higher return than can be obtained by selling a company in its early stages. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. The Answer Is?

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Two hundred and fifty thousand would have netted my firm more than one billion dollars. It is far more detrimental to one’s returns to make investments in companies which fail to return capital. 2 (bigger one IMO) is the limited number of metro areas that have the right supply and demand dynamics for this to work as a good service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

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. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 98

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

As described in Venture Debt , sophisticated investors generally say “No” to the Million Dollar Question, as they typically demand a higher return than can be obtained by selling a company in its early stages. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. The Answer Is?

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

Startup 97

Startup Report Entrepreneur Statistics 97

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. This team is talented. They wanted advice.

Services 332

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

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. Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Such ideas require little-to-no capital, usually last for a relatively short duration and are of nominal size. This enterprise netted the entrepreneurial student a nice fistful of bills before each test. For more discussion of entrepreneurial pricing, see “At What Price?”. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

Ideas 153

Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million.

Los Angeles 44

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Breakout companies become much harder and this isn’t likely to improve unless we give new companies the tools and capital they need to flourish. You think Turkey is going to be eager to allow the movement of capital it can’t track? Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. It’s certainly food for thought.

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