Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger way back in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? Yet reverse mergers are not all bad. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. They can also help raise larger rounds of capital and often at higher prices. 1 party = low price. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger way back in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? Yet reverse mergers are not all bad. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

He told the homeowner that he represented someone who wanted to purchase the ranch at a substantial premium over its current fair market value. Even the eccentric King of Pop communicated the price he was willing to pay for Neverland. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. Why did the VC markets freeze so quickly? Market downturn – We all know that investors move in herds.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!; Zag develops software used for configuring and pricing new and used automobiles, which it provides on a white-label basis to affinity buying programs.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

Kurt DelBene, president, Office Division for Microsoft in a statement said ; “The acquisition of PPI allows us to draw on our complementary strengths, and we’re excited to accelerate this market evolution”. The PPI screens too have a huge market potential. The PPI screens too have a huge market potential.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle. Those options need to come from somewhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Do so at your peril.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Total raised: $120.3mm; $43.5mm raised prior to 2006 recap; post-recap, raised $7.7mm; Series B in 2009 for $15mm; – Read more: VentureWire (requires subscription). Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. MetaMarkets.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger way back in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? Yet reverse mergers are not all bad. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? Yet reverse mergers are not all bad. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? Yet reverse mergers are not all bad. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

We caught up with Wade Eyerly , co-founder of the company, who told us the story behind the company, and how it hopes to bring unlimited flights from local regional airports, via a subscription model, to the market. Since 2006, I have been spending the last six years working on different models on how to make this work.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. Fred Wilson also wrote a sophisticated analysis of why he believes the market must normalize to smaller amount of money going into VC firms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

It seems like you have a huge amount of penetration in the market  nearly every conference call we are on now comes through your service. We get around 22 percent of those users from our marketing efforts, but the other 78 percent are from viral effect and word of mouthall those people hearing the greeting and going to the web site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. It’s a market, after all. And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit. But VC is like congress. Because they know him or her.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2011

Thus, avoid one-man-band lenders, anyone new to your market or a firm which is lending outside if its core market segment. During the summer of 2006, I joined RedMojo as an Advisor. Consistent with the advice I outline in Free Advice Worth Half The Price , I was paid solely in equity. Mr. Mojo Rising – Real-world Example.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Since 2006, 45 percent of all trials registered on the U.S. —The new wave of so-called PCSK9 drugs to treat high cholesterol, once expected to flood the market , have barely caused a ripple. Its owner Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) shelved it this week , citing poor Phase 3 data and pricing pressures on the two approved PCSK9 drugs.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Our goal, from the outset, since 2006 when we put the company together, was to bring together the extraordinary content on the Internet, whether that is a website, games, or videos for kids. Cliff Boro: At KidZui, our job is to give kids access to the best content on the Internet. It is a serious commitment.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. In 2006, the whole concept was new and novel, and I converted by engineering site to an art site. Artists can control all the content, set the prices, and it's all fully automated with no need for a. I grew it from 2007 through.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

InVenture has created a market for "micro venture capital," whereby everyday investors can provide expansion capital to developing businesses. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. Price: FREE. to 11:00 p.m. RSVP: [link].

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We've grown really fast.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

They’re also a controversial part of the national debate over high drug prices, and their increased use has put ophthalmologists in the crosshairs of insurers, the federal government, and the press. The market for AMD treatments has exploded the past several years.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

However, in 2006, my own son got cancer, and I was thrown into the sad state of affairs that goes into that. You can help by donating, but you can also go to our site, and buy what we think is going to be the best prices in the world for both new and used stuff. We're now allowing you to donate a game, and also to buy a game.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. By mid September the entire market was constipated. I was resolute.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. 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. They also avoid Reg D.

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