Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

But I’m not one to take on the big investment banks – I’ll save that for somebody else. Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. It’s hard not to when you think about the amount of money that flowed into their coffers and the size of expected bonuses this year – of all years. Background.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. They don’t have the appetite to invest more money but they want to protect all (or much of) of the investment they’ve made too date. Find out whether they plan to pass on the investment internally.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). Exactly the opposite of what a rational investment strategy would advise. And well they should be.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. million, according to a recent regulatory filing.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Where there are lots of players focused on different types of equity, different types of investments, different types of debt, they're doing it in a very unfocused manner. That specific type of asset is first position, real estate debt, in an area of real estate that is called hard money loans. We're also 100 percent focused on debt.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. You mentioned you had been on the investment side of things -- what pushed you to become an entrepreneur? The firm is backed by a notable list of angel investors, and based in Los Angeles.

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MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2014

What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. We bought SheKnows for a couple of million, and six years later Evolve sold that to a private equity company for over $100M. By the next morning, they asked us if we wanted them to invest.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

He’s been at it since 2005. We could do more in 2010 with more VC investment; the doubling assumes only ratable increase in marketing spend to achieve profitability. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. >50% of our revenue in now viral.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Kevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick , which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2 billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Today, we've now done it for over 400 different areas.

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MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Seventeen lawyer regional firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP has represented digital media, internet, technology, consumer electronics, and entertainment companies and investment funds out of its Sherman Oaks office since its formation in 2002. The idea is simply to foster the community and support up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. is a good monthly investment? Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com.

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