socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Agoura Hills-based videogame maker THQ is looking for a buyer, after reporting less-than-stellar results on Monday afternoon. 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. in revenues.

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THQ Agoura Hills Sales Agoura 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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Metrics Demand Marketing Paramount 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect any real change in the numbers soon, especially with recent stock market downturns. Thus, there is tremendous pressure to increase current earnings, and little appetite for strategic investments.

Startup 98

Startup Report IBM IBM 98

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, or an inadequate revenue model. The value proposition must clearly define the target customer, the customer’s problem and pain, your unique solution, and the net benefit of this solution from the customer's perspective. Target market.

Sales 102

Sales Customer Custom Outsource 102

Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

On the other side, entrepreneurs and CEO’s usually have a natural fear of giving too much information to us investors after the initial investment is received. Requirements created by investment documents. This could include the need for audited financials, monthly financial and narrative reporting and more.

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Class Course Report Competition 120

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012.

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

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.

Demand 184

Demand Media .Net Santa Monica 184

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. Thus, there is tremendous pressure to increase current earnings, and little appetite for strategic investments.

Startup 84

Startup Technical Review Report IBM 84

Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

There is a natural fear of giving too much information to investors after the initial investment is received. Others worry that investors will latch onto individual line items within financial data and engage in inquisitions regarding telephone bills, marketing costs and other tactical line items in detailed financial statements.

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Class Report Competition .Net 202

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. The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect a big change in the numbers soon, even with recent stock market rallies.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 87

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

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , 2014 was a strong year with IPOs actually outperforming other indices by 10 percent. Yet they see warning lights flashing, based on a still fragile global economy, and volatile markets ahead. Violent market swings usually hit public companies first.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 98

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. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets.

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Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

After presenting a “state of the company” report at a national meeting of resellers for a company where I sat on the board, I was approached by one of the audience members, complimenting my presentation and stating, “I have a problem. Within three months, we easily obtained $3 million of investment at a pre-money valuation of $30 million.

Sales 120

Sales Web Design Web Design 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. Why I Invested in Maker Studios in the First Place. Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis'

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Media CTO Coach CTO Hire Los Angeles 320

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

According to an Ernst & Young report , the number of startups that have gone public in the US over the past decade is down about 75% from the previous decade, to about 10% of startup exits. Thus, there is tremendous pressure to increase current earnings, and little appetite for strategic investments.

Startup 97

Startup Report Entrepreneur Statistics 97

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. ” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.”

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Truecar 376

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

A November 2014 report by Kiplinger asserts that economic momentum is back on track. Add New Revenue Streams and More Aggressive Marketing: At the same time, most small businesses plan to spend more on digital marketing in the year ahead, and pursuing new revenue streams is seen as a top priority for transforming bottom line profits.

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Study Entrepreneur .Net Guide 102

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell. 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.

San Diego 40

San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. The value proposition must clearly define the target customer, the customer’s problem and pain, your unique solution, and the net benefit of this solution from the customer's perspective. Target market.

Sales 97

Sales Custom Customer Outsource 97

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

After presenting a “state of the company” report at a national meeting of resellers for a company where I sat on the board, I was approached by one of the audience members, complimenting my presentation and stating, “I have a problem. Within three months, we easily obtained $3 million of investment at a pre-money valuation of $30 million.

Sales 149

Sales Web Design Web Entrepreneur 149

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. The value proposition must clearly define the target customer, the customer’s problem and pain, your unique solution, and the net benefit of this solution from the customer's perspective. Target market.

Sales 98

Sales Customer Custom Outsource 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

In many areas, not enough entrepreneurs meet the criteria, so it’s still a buyer’s market. The result is that the Main Street Venture Fund consistently has more money available than good opportunities for investment. We see many entrepreneurs who grossly over value their company when attempting to obtain outside investment.

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Funding Startup Entrepreneur Invest 106

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

First, which is the most important and gets least reported on, is lots of people can now publicly say they're raising money, and on what terms. Wil Schroter: One would be a company that has a mass market product, and just needs some cash to get out the door. The JOBS Act did two important things.

Startup 223

Startup Equity Venture Capital Ideas 223

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. The group invested $8.7 It’s hard to know just yet. TCVN News'

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Tips Capital Tech Coast Angels Screening 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The Valley has obsessed with a quick up-and-to-right momentum story because we were thought to live in “winner take most” markets. Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . It literally drove FOMO.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding .Net 363

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2013

It’s easy to forget that your new office rent asks for first, last, and security; new utilities require an escrow account; and new vendors want immediate payment for the first couple of months, before they offer the normal net 30 terms. Sales volumes are still ramping up while marketing expenses are at max.

Startup 114

Startup Sales Layoffs Slides 114

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2012

My first real job was as a Vice President at big, 500 person marketing firm. I then invested in a company called Better, which did testing for pay-per-click ads and AdWords ads. If we do have a report that a post is not their own, we have a two strike policy. It's been a net win. We have those same requirements.

Startup 153

Startup Pricing Sites Acquisition 153

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2016

It’s easy to forget that your new office rent asks for first, last, and security; new utilities require an escrow account; and new vendors want immediate payment for the first couple of months, before they offer the normal net 30 terms. Sales volumes are still ramping up while marketing expenses are at max.

Startup 64

Startup Sales Layoffs Slides 64

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

At Citrix, GoToAssist customers would occasionally ask if they could just pay for our screen-sharing functionality because they didn''t intend to use the product''s other features, such as reporting and session recording. However, using a value-based approach, we charged $10,000, much to the chagrin of our engineers.

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Pricing Product Startup Customer 100

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

There are four basic ways to increase the cash position of a company: inject cash through borrowing or investment, decrease spending or payments on debt, increase efficiency of operations, and increase revenues or advance payments from customers. One quarter, the company just did not receive its copies of the quarterly reports.

Services 159

Services Statistics Startup .Net 159

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Live, right there in front of us, he opened his private admin dashboard with the stats from AppSumo and revealed what marketing campaigns failed, how much those cost as well as which ones succeeded and how much revenue those brought in. Their first few weeks in business we’d have brainstorming sessions on how to market.

Metrics 87

Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

Two days later, it paid AstraZeneca $550 million upfront for the rights to a group of antibiotics either already on the market or in late-stage testing. It will retain the PixarBio name and aims to start trading on the over-the-counter market during the second week of September. Alex Lash contributed to this report.

Pricing 40

Pricing Thousand Oaks Startup Research 40

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. That's a market of 150 million people. Thanks for talking with us. Nick Desai: That's a great question.

Media 168

Media Pricing Sites Training 168

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

TrueCar, an LA-based company, sells more cars now than any physical dealer in the country and recently went public and has a $1 billion market cap. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself. We have invested $17.3 CincyTech today has $28.5

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup .Net Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40