socalTECH

JULY 9, 2010

The firm is set to list on the NYSE as GDOT in the offering, which would net the firm around $154M at $35.00 Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Piper Jaffray, and UBS Investment Bank. Green Dot filed for an IPO in February, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, TTP Fund, and the Tech Coast Angeles. The IPO is being underwritten by J.P. READ MORE>>.

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Pricing Tech Coast Angels Monrovia .Net 213

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. ” The Details.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Berkonomics

APRIL 17, 2014

Usually the investors are non-accredited, and only invest a small amount. No single investor invests more than a specified amount in the offering: The greater of $2,000 or 5% of the annual income or net worth of the investor, as applicable, if the investor has annual income or net worth of less than $100,000; or.

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.Net Pricing Ideas Invest 209

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2021

That’s how much Los Angeles-based ServiceTitan , a startup founded just eight years ago is worth now, thanks to some massive tailwinds around homebuilding and energy efficiency that are serving to boost the company’s bottom line and netting it an unprecedented valuation for a vertical software company, according to bankers.

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SaaS Glendale Statistics Los Angeles 292

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2020

San Diego-based AlphaTrAI , a fintech startup which is backed by venture capital investor Analytics Ventures, says it is launching its own, extrenal fund, and is expanding its leadership team. the founder of Hightree Advisors, to its advisory board.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Invest San Diego .Net 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2010

Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Raine Securities, and JMP Securities. According to Demand's IPO filing, the firm had a net loss of $6.00M on revenues of $114.0M in the first six months of 2010.

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Demand Media .Net Santa Monica 184

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The problem that I’ve seen historically in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego or Seattle is that their historic high-net-worth individuals didn’t come from the tech startup world. We have invested $17.3 We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. We also talked about Elevation Partners who invested in Palm and how this deal really salvaged their investment, which was a VERY big bet on Palm.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

Local angel groups have hit the jackpot again with an investment, this time with the October acquisition of Pasadena-based Bluebeam in a $100M deal by German software company Nemetschek AG. pasadena angels exits venture capital angel investment bluebeam tech coast investors greendot gdot' READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels .Net Angel 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

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”). Thus investing in startups should always be approached as a low odds game.

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Invest Angel Funding Startup 111

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2013

The tool, which lets users analyzing the web traffic from their promotions, lets users click into a map of where users are interacting with their promotions, and get detailed demographics data--household income, education, net worth, neighborhood data, and more--at the street level.

Tool 215

Tool Startup Template .Net 215

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2012

But that is a number in a vacuum without at least two other measures: return on investment (ROI) and percentage of net profit to revenue. Microsoft generates billions of revenues and profits and even has a high ROI and high net profit percentage.

.Net 153

.Net Competition Tool Invest 153

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

 —  @jasonlk How the Long Game Has Benefitted Upfront I was thinking about it this morning in particular and thinking about my own personal investment history. sold to Disney for $670 million and since our first investment was at < $10 million valuation we did quite well. Maker Studios?—?sold

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

That is, how much should your company be willing to lose in cash every month as you make investments in staff and equipment that funds technology, sales, marketing and management. The Basics The starting point — the 101 — is knowing the difference between gross burn and net burn. million for 12 months and nearly $11 million for 18.

Startup 212

Startup Venture Capital .Net Capital 212

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

THQ said it has hired an investment banker to help it consider "strategic alternatives", in hopes of raising additional capital to bring a number of titles to market. The announcement came as the firm announced net sales of $107.4M The announcement came as the firm announced net sales of $107.4M in revenues. in revenues.

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THQ Agoura Hills Sales Agoura 147

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Piper Jaffray, and UBS Investment Bank. The firm reported net income of $37.16M on revenues of $234.8M Monrovia-based Green Dot , a provider of pre-paid VISA and Mastercard cards, has filed for an IPO, saying this morning that it is looking to raise up to $150M in an IPO on the NYSE.

Tech Coast Angels 160

Tech Coast Angels Monrovia .Net Acquisition 160

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The new funding came from New World Strategic Investment Limited, Indus Capital, Och-Ziff, AERIS Capital, Angeleno Group, Harbinger Capital Partners, Riverstone Holdings, as well as other un-named, high net worth individuals. The firm said the new funding brings its total raised to more than $300M.

Funding 159

Funding .Net Los Angeles Capital 159

socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2012

Sibling Capital , a brand new venture capital based in Rancho Santa Fe, said this week that it has formed to invest in the areas of. The new fund said it made its first investment, part of an $80M investment in biopharmaceuticals firm Relypsa. chemistry, medicine and material sciences. Size of the new fund was not announced.

Southern California 133

Southern California Capital Funding .Net 133

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The Next 10 report found that California accounted for 24 percent of total global investment in clean technology, with a total of $11.6 billion invested in cleantech venture capital in the state since 2006. Tags: next10 southern california clean cleantech energy power solar investment jobs employment.

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Southern California Report Orange County Patents 165

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google in 2003, for pre-IPO stock, reaping first round investors more than a 100x return on their investment. Tags: entrepreneur startup venture capital investment repeat. His latest startup, Factual, is aimed at the data mashup and open data market.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 30, 2019

Last year the company crossed $200 million in revenue and managed to net over 1 million subscribers for the service. As a result of the investment, Kleiner Perkins general partners Mood Rowghani and Mary Meeker will join as board members and observers, respectively.

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Newsletter Los Angeles .Net Platform 212

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

In short: Access to great deals, ability to be invited to invest in these deals, ability to see where value in a market will be created and the luck to back the right team with the right market at the right time all matter. So if you truly want to be great at investing you need all the right skills and access AND a diversified portfolio.

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Funding Startup Writing Invest 294

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2014

It looks like Hawthorne-based SpaceX is confident it will keep its headquarters in Hawthorne for quite a long time--despite setting up a commercial launch facility in Texas this week--based on details on the recent sale of the company''s leased headquarters at 1 Rocket Road in Hawthorne--to a commercial real estate investment trust.

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SpaceX Hawthorne .Net Design 170

Berkonomics

MARCH 8, 2012

And even more recently, “crowd sourcing” has been enabled by the Internet – seeking many investors at a small amount per investment. The problem in taking such money rests in the legality of taking money from non-accredited investors, people who do not meet the SEC standard for making non-public company investments.

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Invest Entrepreneur .Net Course 185

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Amazon said it is looking to be net zero carbon by 2040. Amazon made a large investment in Rivian in order to develop those delivery vans; according to Amazon, it partnered with Rivian in order to accelerate its path to an electric delivery vehicle that would fit its needs.

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Carson .Net Invest Develop 147

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Somaxon had 12 months net sales of approximately $11.7M The company has been looking for a buyer since December of 2011, when it drastically cut its staff and said it had hired an investment banker. Pernix said the buy will help expand its product portfolio. as of September 30th. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego .Net Equity Acquisition 147

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The company said the funding primarily came from high net worth individuals. Bradbury is a member of life sciences consulting and investment firm BioBrit LLC; he also served as President and CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals. As part of the funding, Daniel M. Bradbury has joined the company''s board. READ MORE>>.

Bradbury 138

Bradbury San Diego .Net Venture Capital 138

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

And I found from experience – after investing in many other entrepreneurial businesses over the years – that this stage typically occurs first at about twenty employees or $3 million in net revenues (or gross profit) for most any kind of company. In future weeks, we will dissect this $3 million-dollar phenomenon separately.

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.Net Los Angeles Content Entrepreneur 243

Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

There is a natural fear of giving too much information to investors after the initial investment is received. That burden is an ongoing cost of taking the investment, much as a public company takes on the additional burden of governmental reporting, both adding to costs over time.

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Class Report Competition .Net 202

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2013

OpenX said the new Revenue Intelligence product uses algorithms to figure out the total value a page generates, based on a net present value calculation--taking into account page views and clicks, traffic, and more. OpenX is venture backed by Accel Partners, Index Ventures, SAP Ventures and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.

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OpenX Content Services Advertising 159

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2011

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USC Southern California Study .Net 200

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.

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Startup Invest Incubator Ideas 87

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.

Invest 89

Invest Entrepreneur Startup Equity 89

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 27, 2014

Entrepreneurs typically embrace celebrity investments, while most sophisticated investors prefer to avoid famous entertainment or sports personalities on the cap table. Celebrity investors aside, I am a fan of high net worth individuals who are willing to allocate some of their risk capital to foster a startup''s success.

Entrepreneur 193

Entrepreneur Technical Review Hollywood Southern California 193

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Even though initial stock has no value or market, it is extremely valuable in dividing entity ownership between multiple co-founders, commensurate with their investment, contribution and role. This allows the entrepreneur more influence in controlling dilution of his or her shares, investment terms and acquisition decisions.

.Net 96

.Net Startup Entrepreneur Acquisition 96

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2018

billion after accounting for Microsemi's cash and investments, net of debt. According to the two, Microchip will pay $68.78 per share in cash for Microsemi, in a deal which will have a total enterprise value of about $10.15 The two did not say how the acquisition will affect Microsemi's large workforce in Orange County. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Technology .Net Acquisition 124