Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Cloud Capital--has managed to coax those equipment rental yards into the digital age, and how the company has tackled other challenges in focusing its business. Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. Really, we're the sales and marketing arm of those companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Approachable.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

O’Neil said, “ScoreBig.com is the only business that offers consumers deep savings on tickets in a way that protects the brand of the property and the integrity of full-price sales.” is backed by Bain Capital and U.S. Problem Solved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

Only one sold for 7 figures in 2012 (investing.com sold for $2.5 range in the $20 to $40 range for a year registration, but you can find sales on certain extensions for as little as fifty cents per year. Ask if the domain name is for sale, but don’t tip your hand by making a specific offer. Certain extensions such as.tv

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). In the US alone there are 30 billion inbound sales calls every year. Calls are changing but not dying. Home alarms.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I We Don't Need No Stinkin' Degrees. "As

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

That means in three months, Bristol has lost a third of its value, equivalent to about $40 billion in market capitalization. Illumina fended off a hostile takeover bid from Roche back in February 2012, and over the next three years shares went from about $51 apiece to as high as $219.30 Today, shares are worth just over $50.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. Also, since most funds are 10-year funds there will be pressure in 2012 for this fund to start exiting its investments and return money to its shareholders. Irrational prices and over investment in your competitors hurts your ability to build healthy businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

When convertible debt first started being introduced as a “faster, cheaper way to get startups funded” they didn’t have pricing built into them. ” And some seed stage investors told me, “I prefer not to fight over price now. They’ll get priced soon enough by a VC.” Enter “the cap.”

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Price: $25 (Early Bird).

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

— Swift Navigation , founded in 2012 and now based in San Francisco, is using real-time kinematic (RTK) technology to enhance the precision of satellite-based GPS positioning data. SlantRange, a San Diego company founded almost three years ago, is a drone-related startup already generating sales.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

October 5, 2012. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

forward sales with some as high as 12x sales. Collectively we chose growth and the market was rewarding high growth rates over any other factor so we felt that we ought to bring in an experienced CEO who had taken companies public, who had led large, international sales organizations and who was poised to take Invoca to the next level.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Idea Mensch. Subscribe to RSS.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit. We took $2.3

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

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. You would think it would be better for M&A to be more active when the markets are down – better prices. M&A returned.

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