Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. With seed up massively between 2006–2014 and A and B rounds relatively flat what you see is a widening of the funnel going into traditional venture. So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At Altrinsic's closing price on Thursday, the deal would be worth approximately $5.19M. Kazaa, and Brilliant Digital Entertainment had been mostly dormant since sometime around 2006. Brilliant Digital Entertainment web site says it would be relaunching Kazaa last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But that doesn’t mean that people are paying rational prices as investors based on intrinsic value. Rational people can disagree and some may argue that today’s prices are rational and under-pinned by economic drivers. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. That’s fine.

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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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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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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. Drugs that treat a form of vision loss known as age related macular degeneration aren’t just big business.

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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. 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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Platform Snapchat Startup Course 118

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Pricing details on the new offering was not disclosed. Intuit acquired Digital Insight for $1.35B in 2006. The new online financial management product helps small businesses manage billing and invoicing, remote deposit checks using a home scanner, prepare legal filings, and handle payroll. READ MORE>>.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The company paid the price for this rash decision, as its second quarter sales were down, causing the company's stock price to drop 15% in a single day. Their follow-up album, released in 2006, won five Grammy Awards and eventual sold a respectable 2.3 million units.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2009

According to CEO Eric David Greenspan , the firm has just turned its first profitable quarter, in Q4, and increased its bank balance for the first time since it received funding from the Tech Coast Angels in 2006. Greenspan said the moves helped the firm lower its cost of acquisition of new customers.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

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. We then turned Citrix’s question around, saying, “You knocked on our door with an intent to buy so you obviously have some idea of the price you are willing to pay.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

They can also help raise larger rounds of capital and often at higher prices. 1 party = low price. Michael’s view (full details in the video) is that right now there often aren’t multiple buyers for consumer Internet companies and prices often aren’t what people hope for going into the process. TechCrunch.

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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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Zag Arcturus GRP Partners Anthem 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

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. The price / share is actually $2.40 (not $3.00), which is $3,000,000 pre-money / 1,250,000 shares (because you had to create the 250,000 share options). Note that it might be even less than $1.6m

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. Short answer – yes.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

.” Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona this February that the PPI screens could connect to PCs and looked similar to the Windows 8 tablet varying only in size and price. Windows 8 also works well with the PPI screens. The PPI screens too have a huge market potential.

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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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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

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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Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 79

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. 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 around $400 billion.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

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 -. Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool!

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Venture Capital Invest CTO Coach Southern California 150

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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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]. Total raised: $10.5mm. See: TechCrunch.

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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

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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Pricing Help Startup Sites 183

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 Good ones don’t care about the granular details in a startup but they do care about how big the market is, what share you’ll get and what assumptions you make about pricing over time and other market factors. Or lower revenue assumptions.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

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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Funding Startup Entrepreneur Summary 98

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

Since 2006, I have been spending the last six years working on different models on how to make this work. As a result, we can project into the future what our future fuel costs will be, and we can get fuel on contract at today's price, and just execute on that contract rather than try to hedge costs. Similarly, pilots seem to love us.

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Startup Mentor Technical Review Santa Barbara 240

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe. Back in the day, when you went to Amazon, you ended up at Amazon Germany, where everything was in German, and prices were in German Marks. Nils Forsblom: Back in 2004, I met a girl when I was here on vacation.

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Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

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. 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 about $126 billion.

Startup 96

Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

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. 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 around $400 billion.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

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. 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 about $46 billion.

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Startup Course Yahoo Invest 93

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

They knew the venture math that if only 50 companies / year are sold North of $100 million the entry price for their investments mattered. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. They built industrial-scale funds dedicated to backing early-stage startups with $500k rather than $5 million.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Irrational prices and over investment in your competitors hurts your ability to build healthy businesses. I’m happy to say that in 2006-2008 we has some good exits including BillMeLater, DealerTrack, UGO Networks and PrePay Technologies to name a few. We also took one of our large portfolio companies, Ulta, public.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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. Tech Coast Angels is ever-mindful that some of the world’s greatest companies began with angel investments and we take our commitment to that tradition seriously. to 11:00 p.m.

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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. 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 value themselves today internally at $4B or more.

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Startup Course Yahoo Invest 97

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. Those include quite a few brands you probably recognize, including Twitter, Hulu, Pinterest, EMI, Wordpress, Break.com, and a whole host of other companies. We've grown really fast.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248