Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

He concluded that the sweet spot for valuation was in the $20–30 million sales price range, and that many, many times more deals were completed in that range than above $100 million in valuation at exit. Not so long ago, Basil Peters wrote his book, “Early Exits,” after analyzing 150 young companies and their exits.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

LumaTax develops software which can be used by small businesses to automate the paperwork required for paying sales taxes. The startup is led by Robert Shulte, who was founder of sales tax software provider Taxient, which was based in San Diego, and who he sold to tax software developer Avalara in 2010.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2012

Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010. Fab.com operates an online, flash-sales and e-commerce site that revolves around design; the site originally started as a social network, and is headed by Jason Goldberg. Bohnett is the founder of Geocities.com. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2011

Ventures , the Internet marketing firm headed by Ben Padnos , the former founder of BetterPPC, said today that it has received a trial date in its lawsuit against NBC Universal. NBC apparently agreed to sell the domain, based on emails included in the lawsuit, but then backed out at the last minute on the sale. Los Angeles-based DONE!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010. Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.”

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. Who are the founders and their backgrounds? Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Integr8 Group – one of the largest private owned Information Communication and Telecommunication Managed Service providers in South Africa (Annex.13).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Robison reports that the company now has over 400 employees, spread across seven building in a Carpinteria campus, in addition to a web development branch in Calabasas, and sales offices in the UK and Australia.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

He concluded that the sweet spot for valuation was in the $20–30 million sales price range, and that many, many times more deals were completed in that range than above $100 million in valuation at exit. Not so long ago, Basil Peters wrote his book, “Early Exits,” after analyzing 150 young companies and their exits.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Investors are human, after all Come up with a valid reason because they know in communicating with founders if there’s no reason to say “no” you can generate bad will Risk missing out on an inflection point: Investors of course are also concerned about saying “no” too early in the process when they can “hang around the rim” and see what happens?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. and the founder of 500 Startups, Dave McClure. Angel investors are people too.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Employees: 20.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

Landry is a serial entrepreneur, and active investor, having been co-founder of TagWorld. We've done really well since then, were profitable in 2010, and have had some really great clients. Those can be sales, coupon redemptions, or downloads. Thanks for the time today! from a group of VCs and angels. Which VCs were those?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. While I’ve updated it a few times, it continues to get at important questions that startup founders need to be asking. million in sales every year for just a 1-second page delay.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

-Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Total raised: $16.0mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the problems in this structure.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

Applications are due April 6th, 2010, the form is on the website and the Twitter address is @launchpadlad. It was inspired somewhat by a comment that Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) made at a technology event hosted by Jason Nazar. We will be selecting 10 startup companies to participate. The rest is history.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Jimmy Hendricks about where Deal Current fits into the industry, and how the company grew out of a need of a client. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software. Jimmy Hendricks: We make a percentage of every sale.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

We caught up with co-founder Michael Wong , who told us about how the company is looking to change the model for local check-ins, and also help businesses with getting the word out about their services. My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. Based on his number, we decided to pivot.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. It’s pure irony.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It has long been held as the ultimate annual shopping holiday, but Cyber Monday has quickly been picking up speed and pulling in equally large amounts of sales. In 2010, sales surpassed $1 billion for the first time and Cyber Monday total spending continues to rise. billion sales record. The Argument for Black Friday.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Although Uber never pitched Rincon Venture Partners , we share a very good mutual friend with Travis Kalanick, Uber’s Founder and CEO. Our mutual friend mentioned to me over breakfast during the late summer of 2010 that Uber was raising a seed funding round. s/w sales vs real-world fulfillment of a service). .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. And of course we had, TheMan.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Stacey Horowitz, Founder of SFAC, started the non-profit business from a trip to Peru in 2009. Since its 2010 launch, SFAC tripled their sales and growth. Second, they take half of the profits from each sale and grant it to certain community improvement projects SFAC is working on. based charities shoppers get to choose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2010

But until now, I’ve never seen a study of exactly how that plays out for startup founders for current venture-backed companies, specifically: race, age, experience and the number of founders per company. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. No surprises here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. and the founder of 500 Startups, Dave McClure. Angel investors are people too.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. Scot Richardson: I'm definitely the business side of the co-founders.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2013

Joaquin Ayuso de Paul, founder and CEO of Kuapay said,“As people grow more comfortable using their phones for everything from taking photos, to online shopping.” Founded in Santa Monica in 2010, Kuapay, has been steadily perfecting its product through a variety of pilot programs both in and outside of the U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold, and a large number of those go towards corporate use. That makes it the first in console sales. Kinect for Xbox 360, released in November of 2010, sold 8 million units in the first 60 days of its release. Bing Powered search now controls 30% of the search engine market share.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. Established In 2010 By PayPal’s First Head of US marketing. Founded in 2010 by Eric M. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 25 Years of Writing Code.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). Congrats on being accepted to Microsoft's Accelerator. Explain that?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We caught up with founder and CEO Erik Adams to hear more about what is startup is up to, and how it''s trying to use the crowdsourcing site Indiegogo to raise money for its startup. Finally, I started pushing the idea, like a vacuum cleaner sales men, showing it to retailers and vendors, and it finally caught on.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2010

Founder Steli Efti stated that he wants to create the Ning of Education, giving the ability to build an educational site to anyone. And to keep the lights on Supercool School is taking 20 percent from online course sales. We had a chance to catch up with Jason Katzer of Supercool School during DEMOspring 2010.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2012

According to the founders,the technology allows members to securely use their subscription to go to any theater that accepts major credit cards. The New York headquartered company launched in 2010 is a premier movie theater subscription service and provides film enthusiasts the ability to attend unlimited movies at a monthly fee.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We caught up with co-founder Michael Kleist , to learn more about the startup, its roots in China and international trade, as well as learn more about the startup experience in China--and why having a presence in Southern California is important to the company. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. How long has company been around?

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

million in 2010. million in 2010. million in 2010. Mousumi Shaw, founder of Austin (Tex.) jewelry retailer Sikara ), raised $100,000 this way in 2010. “It’s a targeted way to get access to investors and acquire intelligence on the personality of the angel group, all in one pop,” Sudek says.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

CapLinked’s online platform helps companies manage and close complex business transactions such as asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions. Founded in 2010 by Eric M. Manage & Close Complex Business Transactions.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Clothes are very personal and its really a pain to find stuff thats going to look good on you.

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