Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? People were building.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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MAY 2, 2017

Veritone is looking to list as VERI on the NASDAQ Capital Market and hopes to raise as much as $20M in its IPO effort. Veritone's IPO underwriters are Wunderlich, Craig-Hallum Capital Group, and Northland Capital Markets. and $16.00 per share, as it launches its roadshow. Veritone's CEO is technology startup veteran Chad Steelberg.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Calabasas-based Digital Insight , which develops online financial software for banks and other financial institutions, said today that it has rolled out a new product focused on the small business market. Intuit acquired Digital Insight for $1.35B in 2006. Pricing details on the new offering was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

capital has produced 241 impact startups since 2006, with 95 companies founded in San Francisco. market in September after closing a $360 million funding round in April and acquiring Silicon Valley-based startup Evolve Energy. billion into U.S. firms since 2015, double the amount invested into China ($16.8

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

From 2006 to 2012, the number of pills distributed to pharmacies increased by more than 50 percent. In total, 76 billion pills flooded the market. The figures were reported by The Washington Post and HD Media, which won a legal battle for access to a federal database that tracks US transactions of controlled substances.

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APRIL 22, 2016

Westlake Village-based electronics maker Interlink Electronics said Thursday afternoon, that its shares have been approved for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market. The listing on the NASDAQ returns Interlink back to the NASDAQ for the first time since 2006, when it slipped from that exchange.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This distrust for the scripted message has led to a new demand for unfiltered marketing, and the emergence of business credibility heroes, like Elon Musk, with his bold statements about space travel, and sometime villains, such as Mark Zuckerberg defending Facebook privacy practices. He didn’t wait for the well-crafted recovery story later.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Celigo said this morning that it has raised $8M in an expansion capital round, its first institutional funding since it was founded in 2006. Celigo said the funding will go to expand sales, marketing, and product development. A part of the funding, TVC Capital's Steven J. Hammerslag joins the company's board of directors.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Temple City-based Fulgent Genetics , based in the San Gabriel Valley, has filed for an IPO, saying that it is seeking to raised $50M in an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market as FLGT. The IPO is being underwritten by Credit Suisse, Piper Jaffray, Raymond James, and BTIG. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, is keeping the faith in one of its portfolio companies, Validity Sensors , a developer of fingerprint sensors for the PC, mobile, and tablet market. Qualcomm has been an investor in Validity since at least 2006. The new round was announced Thursday. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2013

Marchese had been President of the company from 2006 until 2011, when he departed to become Senior Vice President of Marketing and Digital for Fuse Networks. Los Angeles-based online advertising firm SocialVibe has a new CEO this mornig: co-founder Joe Marchese.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Irvine-based laser marketing technology developer TherMark Holdings has been acquired by Cleveland-based Ferro Corporation , in a deal worth $5.5M, the two said late Wednesday afternoon. TherMark was backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Pasadena Angels, and had announced a total of around $2.55M in funding since 2006. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2013

Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen said Thursday that it is in a joint venture with Chinese company Zhejiang Beta Pharma , to commercialize the firm''s Vectibix (panitumumab) product in the Chinese market. Financial arrangements of the joint venture were not announced. The two said the new JV will be named Amgen-Beta Pharmaceuticals Co.,

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MARCH 1, 2012

Aliso Viejo-based QLogic , the manufacturer of networking adapters, switches, and ASICS for the storage networking market, said last night that it has completed its sale of its InfiniBand product lines and assets to Intel Corporation. QLogic had entered the Infiniband market in 2006, when it paid $109M to acquire PathScale.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Thousand Oaks-based Ceres , the developer of seeds for the energy and biofuels market, announced yesterday that it has added former BP Chief Scientist and Undersecretary of Energy for Science, Steven E. He also served as a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech from 1975 until 2006. Koonin, to its board of directors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

In what has been a six year saga, Camarillo-based Vitesse Semiconductor , the maker of networking and communications ICs, is returning to the NASDAQ Global Market. The firm announced the move this morning, saying that it has been approved for listing on the NASDAQ Global Market on March 2nd.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

NantWorks said it will use the business to help launch its mobile-based health and image recognition mobile solutions further into the market. Alcatel-Lucent''s Digital Multimedia Solutions business came out of the 2006 acquisition of an Israeli startup called Mobilitec, which was estimated to be worth $75M at the time.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Panache offers up a variety of video ad formats to marketers and advertisers, and counts Fox News, CBS, and MTV Networks as customers. The firm was founded in 2006. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

QLogic entered the InfiniBand market in 2006, when it pay $109M in cash for InfiniBand equipment maker PathScale. According to QLogic, the sale will allow the company to provide a greater focus to growth opportunities in the converged networking, enterprise Ethernet, and storage area networking products. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Chittipeddi was most recently co-president of the firm, and has been at the company since 2006. The firm said that the additional role gives him worldwide responsibility for engineering, operations, quality, and marketing. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which operates an online marketing service targeted at local businesses, is announcing today that it has purchase the remaining interest in the firm's Australian joint venture partner, Netus Pty Ltd. Australia was ReachLocal's first international market, which it entered in December of 2006.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

get the attention of the market they choose. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival. You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help. It’s very important.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Altrinsic said it would issue 4,161,130 shares of its common stock to Brilliant Digital as part of a marketing agreement related to the deal, in addition to 7,125,665 shares of its stock at closing. Kazaa, and Brilliant Digital Entertainment had been mostly dormant since sometime around 2006.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

According to reports in The Register, LSI said it would be discontinuing its SVM and DPM products because of the "rapidly changing" external storage market.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

In contrast, companies that are rapidly growing often rebrand in order to more accurately reflect the expanded scope of their target market and product set. Unfortunately, the market was as excited by the new devices as they were about the company''s revised name. percent of the domestic market in 2006 but watched that slip to 8.4

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Lake Forest-based Newport Media , which develops semiconductors for the mobile TV market, announced today that it has raised $15M in a Series D funding round. The firm last raised a round of funding in 2006. The new round brings the company's total raised to around $81M.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Patent and Trademark office was filed in November of 2006. Contour is targeting those batteries for the automotive, industrial, consumer, and other markets. According to the firm, the new patent covers its production process and fluorinated multi-layered carbon nanomaterials, which are used in its batteries. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

From its fast start out the gates, H2O Audio hit the deep underwater diving market and quickly found its niche. By 2006, when it first presented at the MIT Enterprise Forum, it was heading into another phase of funding and growth with new products and marketing. By 2008, H2O Audio had hit the wall.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

Berger has been at Sony since 2006, running Sony Pictures Television's mobile games division, and has also served at Time Warner Inc., Berger will be responsible for content development and programming, marketing and distribution for Crackle. Sony purchased Crackle, formerly known as Grouper, in August of 2006. READ MORE>>

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MARCH 8, 2012

Lissner joined Facebook as the firm's first Los Angeles salesperson in 2006, and also previously served at Yahoo, both in the Bay Area and in Los Angeles on Yahoo's entertainment efforts. MomentFeed said that Lissner will help in product development, recruiting, and building a sales team; Lissner has also joined the company's board.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The firm said the new funding will go to expands its go-to-market efforts. IVT was formerly known as Interactive Video Technologies, and last raised funding back in 2006. IVT serves clients such as Oracle, Rohm & Hass, IBM, and NEC particularly for corporate communications, investor relations, and training webcasts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is over $900 billion.

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MARCH 23, 2009

Irvine-based SmartReply , a provider of mobile marketing and SMS messaging services, said today that it has acquired mSnap , a SMS mobile advertising network. mSnap was founded in 2006, and is based in San Francisco. Tags: merger marketing smartreply mobile acquisition msnap.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

BAT operates a celebrity endorsement and marketing firm. Ryan and Chad Steelberg are best known for their sale of dMarc to Google in 2006. Other investors also include the CGI Opportunity Fund II, the investment vehicle of the Ueberroth Family. The two also founded AdForce (sold to CMGi) and 2CAN Media (sold to CMGi).

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