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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Carlsbad-based Obalon Therapeutics , which is developing a balloon-based medical device for assisting in weight loss, has set the estimated initial IPO pricing range for its public offering, saying it now expects an initial public offering at between $14.00 if it prices at the high end of its estimated range. and $16.00 READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Pasadena-based Green Dot , the provider of prepaid credit cards which recently debuted on the markets, reported its quarterly earnings Thursday, saying that the tight financing environment continues to drive new customers to the company. The firm said it had net income of $4.6M in net income on operating revenues of $62.9M

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

However, in the long run, entrepreneurs always benefit from delivering Maximum Utility for a fair price. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. WebEx’s predatory pricing made it vulnerable to a new entrant. Arbitrage Is Fleeting.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The company filed earlier to list on the NASDAQ Global Market as AGMX. The offering would net the company around $56.0M on the public markets. Vista, California-based AutoGenomics , which manufactures molecular diagnostics systems, has set its estimated initial public offering range, saying it expects to sell 3.75 and $13.00

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets. I’m OK with this – it feels fairly benign.

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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. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. It literally drove FOMO.

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Berkonomics

JULY 18, 2013

Substitute the word “money” for “water” and we have an explanation for most all of the reasons why successful products move from concept through early adopters through mass market. Fighting this fact will just extend the misery of accepting a product or marketing failure in the marketplace. Email readers, continue here.]

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. I’ve definitely been wrong on market value.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

You might net $1 million and that would change your life. Now I just have a 3x higher exit price if I want to sell one day. In hindsight we know the market was sure there (whether or not we would have captured it is a different story). If you don’t you may have to lay off staff in eight weeks. How can you process that?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2010

Dot Hill said it expects the buy to help it expand beyond the storage array market, into the higher margin storage software market. In the firm's 8-K filing describing the transaction, Dot Hill said the purchase price was reduced from earlier amounts due to negative net book value of Cloverleaf's balance sheet.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

the parent company of Snapchat , has set its estimated initial IPO pricing, saying this morning in a filing that it estimates its initial public offering price at betwen $14.00 Snap said it is planning to sell as many as 230,000,000 shares of its stock, which would net it around $3.68 billion on the public markets.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2022

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. In my experience, the top candidates will include the following: What if you have to cut your targeted price? Pricing is always a tricky issue.

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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. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2020

Substitute the word “money” for “water” and we have an explanation for most all the reasons why successful products move from concept through early adopters through mass market. Fighting this fact will just extend the misery of accepting a result with as product or marketing failure in the marketplace.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

We had the final terms of our agreement fairly well boxed in within a range of about 5-7% on price and within 30 days on move-in date. I obviously preferred the lowest price and I wanted the latest move-in date. She told me, “start with the price you want but the move in date he wants.&#. I told my agent. She way annoyed.

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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 hired a marketing team to promote their products more broadly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2020

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. In my experience, the top candidates will include the following: What if you have to cut your targeted price? Pricing is always a tricky issue.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. In a booming tech market like 2011 it’s easy to think your business will always expand. In a down market IP can become a huge differentiator. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. This is a huge mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Who are your ideal customers and market?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Exactly what is that customer experience that every modern marketer is talking about, and how do you measure it? This will create a connection with them, which demonstrates more value than price or quality. One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Detractors.

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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. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. What is CareerArc?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2021

The market for domain investors has taken a big step down in the last few years, since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) has rolled out top-level domains for every country, like.us First you have to find the current owner, using WHOIS , or other lookup functions available on the net.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. In my experience, the top candidates will include the following: What if you have to cut your targeted price? Pricing is always a tricky issue.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

AngelList is a great way to market your deal. Where I think Robert’s comments are slightly wrong is that AngelList is a net positive for VCs. Still, we’re nearly 2 years into a bull market for angel investing (read: bubble) and 1 year into a VC bubble. My view for entrepreneurs. Lots of people will see it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

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. So I wondered out loud with the president if the government wanted to encourage more entrepreneurship — was there a way to help promote more of a culture accepting of failure?

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Nick Desai: FitOrbit delivers a proven solution for fitness and weight loss over the Internet, for the first time, at a price people can afford. That's a market of 150 million people. Nick Desai: With FitOrbit, there's an extremely high value, at a low cost price. We've also built a variety of pricing options.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Sure, that's a decent way to approach it, but the result is, studios then want a huge minimum guarantee, which really prices startups out of the market. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand. We've really tried to change the model.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2012

My first real job was as a Vice President at big, 500 person marketing firm. 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. To make it easy, we set the prices. It's been a net win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, or an inadequate revenue model. Target market. Sales/Marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2013

Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition. Unless your volumes are in the millions or higher, the difference between manufacturing cost and customer price better be 50% or greater.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Audi has delivered 18,500 of its all-electric e-tron SUVs globally since March 2019 when the vehicle first came to market. The base price of the Sportback is 71,350 ($79,000). Audi was able to improve the range by increasing the net battery capacity. The Sportback will come to Europe first in spring 2020. Lighting and mirrors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Target market. Sales/Marketing.

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