Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2015

Painter has been CEO of the company since he founded TrueCar in 2005. Painter has recently been battling issues with the auto industry and dealers, who have been unhappy with company's data sharing policies--as well as the company's focus on providing consumers with realistic, upfront pricing and price transparency.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2010

Oversee said that it had also discovered that Brady had embezzled funds from Oversee, by fraudulently refunding himself a share of the purchase price for names he won. Oversee said Brady had affected about 5 percent of the auctions on the site since 2005, affecting about 1 percent of SnapNames auction revenue.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly. Competition for access to deals in the Bay Area, however, has priced many investors out of the most sought-after rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. It was a great learning time for me. tl;dr summary. We did not.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Irrational prices and over investment in your competitors hurts your ability to build healthy businesses. If a VC fund you’re talking to raised a fund in 2005 or early and hasn’t yet raised a new fund they certainly will be thinking about it and trying to figure out how and when to raise a fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. . - When you see a big round that is announced, does it mean that they really raised all this money? Short answer: no.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Obviously, students can provide skilled labor at good prices. Atif Siddiqi: We've been operating in the college space since 2005. We're focused on the skilled labor part of that, knowledge-based tasks. Some of the more popular tasks there are for designers, UX, photographers, and videographers. Where'd you get the idea for the company?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. This is cheaper for them than waiting for big competitors and buying companies at big prices. You can’t mistake that for being the one who wins the poker tournament or even comes home with more money than you brought to the game. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC. Price – I am cheapskate. The hardcopy list price of $49.95 If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Things I Liked Less.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

For those patient enough to source great companies at reasonable prices and prepared to weather the next inevitable downturn, I believe firmly there will be economic rewards for discipline and patience. They compete on features, price and execution. Some will pay off, others will not.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. This is cheaper for them than waiting for big competitors and buying companies at big prices. You can’t mistake that for being the one who wins the poker tournament or even comes home with more money than you brought to the game. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

Within that have own custom cabinet shop, our own metal shop, make our own furniture, and as an offshoot of that, started exploring developing modular, prefab homes in 2005. Marmol Radziner provided the design for the modern, green mobile homes at affordable price points. That's developed into new business in and of it self.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. This is one book-end of the cycle. The iPhone success is more profound than just iPhone apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. Some companies have to go first. Others will follow. But many of us have been there. It’s not fun. But it’s necessary.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

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. I’d bet if one is disciplined about investing here you’d see significantly better pricing than chasing deals in the overly competitive Bay Area corridors.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Historically, it was something that started to develop before our launch with operators back in 2005, and it now serves as a laboratory for development of our product. And it also looks like there's some pricing difference between carriers--is this something you drive, or do they set pricing? So it's a white label offering.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. There was legislation moving through in 2004, which ultimately came out in 2005, which was a starting point for the smart meter discussion. For our readers who might not be familiar with Teridian, can you describe what your business is?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

That was back in 2005, and the premise was that there were lots of sites to help job seekers and employers connect, but they didn't work for a segment of the population, such as dishwashers, busboys, and others who did not have access to the Internet. I didn't think I was contributing or impacting the world in real life.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Those loans are very mis-priced, in our opinion. I went and started a company called Urchin Software Corporation, which was an early player in Web Analytics, which was acquired by Google in 2005, and then I was at Google for just shy of a decade. We're also 100 percent focused on debt.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2015

I remember, telling my friends and family in 2005 that I was working on a 3D printer, and their eyes would glaze over. The MOD-t will cost below $400 tihs year, which puts that in the price range of a gaming console, and something consumers will tolerate. We were working on 3D printing before 3D printing was cool.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

You might look at higher quality / higher price solutions like BMW or Mercedes or you try to see if you can find a bargain with the similar features like a Kia. There was a meme that started going around LPs around 2005 that “I’m not sure LA is really its own venture market” and some LPs actually believed that.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

So they skipped over those steps of the value chain, and purchased Android in 2005 (launched in 2008) to backwards integrate to the OS layer. Google is concerned that ISPs may begin to price discriminate between websites, allowing ISPs to charge users at different rates for different web services.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2016

Setting the Price. Setting the price of your business for a buyout will take some careful analysis of various data. First of all, market value, the value of assets, and cash flow are typically the most important statistics used to set the price for a deal.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, US Government agencies suffered 1108 data breaches between 2005 and 2018 1. Some switched Ethernet services offer custom pricing to help agencies receive the best possible price, in addition to the committed information rates (CIRs).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

These positive feelings extended fairly broadly, too; lower-income shoppers were more optimistic than they’d been at any time since 2005-6. The Index of Consumer Sentiment found in mid-October that “personal financial expectations rose to their highest level since 2007.” In late October , however, the Confidence Index fell to 97.6,

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices. Dealing with an artificially high price can make fund raising hard. Solution: pass. It’s rational.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. On the other hand, exits at lower prices are easier with these providers of capital.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

Even the eccentric King of Pop communicated the price he was willing to pay. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. As we were not engaged in selling our company, a “price” was nonexistent. What is that price?”. We were not rude nor indignant. We simply stated the truth.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. What price will your customer ultimately accept?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Think for example if the people with whom you’re trading currency with can use huge piles of cash to drive up the value of your currency in a short period of time and then use coordinated groups to then drive down prices through trading and misinformation to destabilize people. It’s certainly food for thought.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 One way to avoid the valuation dilemma for start-ups is to structure the equity portion of the fee as if it is a bridge loan that can be priced at a discount to a formal round that can be made at a future date.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 One way to avoid the valuation dilemma for start-ups is to structure the equity portion of the fee as if it is a bridge loan that can be priced at a discount to a formal round that can be made at a future date.

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Equity Services Startup Google 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. So winning means they’re paying the highest price. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. Sure, some people work this way.

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