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APRIL 14, 2010

I know that the tone of the title and post will seem a bit aggressive for a post from a venture capitalist on fund raising. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices. It’s a bit like if you bought a $1 million home in 2007 and want to sell it for $1 million today.

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JULY 23, 2014

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Why is this?

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APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). If we got an offer to raise $25 million to grow would she take it or be too worried about exit price, dilution, valuation expectations, etc. Know how you’ll make money.

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JUNE 22, 2011

He said, “They need an unbiased view of the fund raising environment because there is too much misinformation and everything seems to be changing fast.&#. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. Innovation doesn’t even require technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. We need people at all stages of the funding lifecycle and not just VCs. When I look through our own returns across our many funds it has always played out this way.

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JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. 1 party = low price.

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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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JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Total Raised: $366mm.

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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. We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007. Today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding. Constant pressure to increase earnings.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. Yet their next fund had Facebook in it. billion in returns.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2016

Never Gonna Give You Up ’s resurgence began in 2007, when a user on an obscure gaming site posted a link to Rick’s video under the heading for a trailer of the not-yet-released Grand Theft Auto IV video game. The high risk (losing control of your brand expression) may be too great a price for the reward (Millions saw me on YouTube!

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. What drives this is often the need for the VC to return money to its investors due to the end-of-life nature of its fund.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

Last month, San Diego-based Advanced Telemetry (www.advancedtelemetry.com) announced that the company had scored a Series B round of funding from clean technology investor Quercus Trust and 21Ventures, for the firm's energy monitoring solutions. Gus Ezcurra: We started the company about two years ago, in August of 2007.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

We had a new tablet we had developed back in 2007, and we were asked to come up with concepts to drive cellular usage. At some point, something more compelling and interesting came up, and I left and went back to Nokia as an EIR in their venture capital fund, focused on mixed and virtual reality and IoT.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

I think the biggest problem Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder face right now is that they are charging premium prices for what is an increasingly commoditized product. Do you intend to modulate growth based on organic cash inflows or do you plan to seek outside funding at some point? Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

I think the biggest problem Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder face right now is that they are charging premium prices for what is an increasingly commoditized product. Do you intend to modulate growth based on organic cash inflows or do you plan to seek outside funding at some point? Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

We were founded in 2007, with the mission of leveraging video -- which is a much more, exact medium -- to help consumer with this problem. Manufacturers have quite a bit of pressure from the top end in pricing. How the firm funded and backed? The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Either scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. This is cheaper for them than waiting for big competitors and buying companies at big prices. Yes, the VC industry was over funded and too many non value-add people entered the industry. and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

In January 2007 I had a resolution to lose weight and I didn’t want to do it through some crash diet like Atkins that I felt wasn’t sustainable for me. And the starting price for WW is $18 / month … DailyBurn is free. I got so excited about this company that I reached out to the CEO to enquire about fund raising.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. It pains me to see the typical (and predictable) responses on Twitter, “VCs want prices to drop!” ” “Sure, prices are dropping. Mostly, no.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

In recent weeks, online ticketing has seen a surge in interest and funding. Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. That's a completely inefficient way to price tickets.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead. And it also looks like there's some pricing difference between carriers--is this something you drive, or do they set pricing? Derrick Oien: We launched Rabble in June of 2005, and we launched the first version of ANTHEM in September of 2007. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Often, these funds are all that sustain a player and allow them to remain in the game. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. If you quit before the game is over, you can be assured that you will never have the chance to ‘win’. Passing Go – With a few exceptions, every time a player passes “Go” on the Monopoly board, they are given $200 by the bank.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The premise is that this was a forward auction, and it's a disappointment to broadcasters if the prices don't go up. Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. What's your status--you're still self funded? Dave Newmark: We're still self funded.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business. What is all that funding going towards? Adam Bernhard: It is a very exciting area.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Of the 80 companies that have completed the program since its 2007 inception, 49 have received funding, 8 have been acquired and 8 have ceased operations. In my review of the book, my biggest concern was the rather elevated list price of $49.95. As such, I asked Brad how much input he had in determining the book’s price. “We

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

Jim Carol: I first started working on the concept in 2007, and we filed for our IRS determination letter in 2008. We like to fund Make-A-Wishes, particularly for kids with rare and neglected diseases. if we don't have it in stock, you can use our crawler/spider and get guaranteed lowest prices, and still help people less fortunate.

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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. James Segil: There's a couple of things to consider with growth, around what does it take to fund a company's growth. We've grown really fast.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Approximate valuations of each future funding round. Have Your Cake And Eat It – You can leverage your adVenture’s near-term success without selling your business by raising institutional funding and negotiating that a portion of the proceeds be allocated directly to you. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. The Answer Is?

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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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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Approximate valuations of each future funding round. Have Your Cake And Eat It – You can leverage your adVenture’s near-term success without selling your business by raising institutional funding and negotiating that a portion of the proceeds be allocated directly to you. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. The Answer Is?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. 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. And VCs scrambled to raise their own funds. Fundings boomed. Depressing.

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