Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The stock market reached a new all-time high in 2013, and is finally providing some liquidity relief to concerned investors and startups alike. Home prices are slowly coming back, and consumer spending reached a new high of almost $11 billion in May 2013. Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Early in a services business there is usually no profits as the company reinvests in hiring people to grow, but by $20 million in sales the company should at least be pulling in 10% profits (if not more) depending on how much is reinvested. Even tech blogs know this. Who are your competitors – how much do they charge?&#.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. I agree with YouTube (that they provide more (hosting, ad sales, etc.)

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more. I’ve written about these sales mavericks before. I was at the Lobby Conference a few weeks ago in Mexico. go on, click it ).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

We’re excited to announce TechZulu is officially partnering with New Media Expo (formerly BlogWorld) to create a Startup Launchpad at their next event taking place January 6-8, 2013 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas. What does this mean for you ? Rental technology and furnishings available from GSC/Freeman.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. Best is if you have a combination of ad revenue, sponsorships and some forms of non ad revenue (subscriptions, merch, music sales, etc.). We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via PayPal or credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2013 , or fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe. The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad, again free.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

PacketSled plans to use the capital to embark on new marketing initiatives and make additional hires in sales, engineering, and operations, according to a recent statement. The company raised $3 million in a 2013 seed round. The company also has an office in Seattle.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 2013 = $25 billion of which Apples stage is more than $8 billion at > 90% gross margin. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! hours / day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3 There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. Telaprevir sales rocketed to nearly $1 billion in the first six months, at the time the fastest drug launch ever. Called sofosbuvir (Sovaldi), the drug won FDA approval in December 2013.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

The remaining $444 million depends on meeting future development, regulatory, and sales-based milestones, with additional future revenue tied to royalty payments in selected territories. Under Gold, MEI licensed pracinostat in 2013 from a Singaporean biotech company that was liquidating its assets.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

SlantRange, a San Diego company founded almost three years ago, is a drone-related startup already generating sales. They set out in the fall of 2013 to test their system and collect data, and had planned to later seek venture funding in Silicon Valley. At first, the farmers thought they were crazy, Ritter recalled.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. billion.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp was launched online in Beta in January of 2013 and our startup team is based in Los Angeles. Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. When was it launched and where?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

—Colorado-based Webroot said in September it had acquired CyberFlow Analytics , the 2013 startup developing analytic software and machine learning technology to monitor the data flowing in and out of networks for anything that looks out of the ordinary. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.).

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

He also benefited from a program already in place, an oral multiple sclerosis drug called dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera) that went on to win FDA approval in 2013 and become a blockbuster drug. It’s currently Biogen’s top-selling product, generating close to $2 billion in sales during the first half of 2016.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each costs doctors close to $2,000 a dose (how much of that cost is passed through to patients can vary), and they generate more than $7 billion in annual worldwide sales combined. Ranibizumab (Lucentis) from Roche/Genentech and aflibercept (Eylea) from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: REGN ) are the only two FDA-approved drugs for wet AMD.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

As Alex points out in this blog post there’s a ton of options out there in a severely fragmented industry. Non-users will get snippets, fragments, or a plain sales pitch: “Your friend sent you a _, download our app to see the full message!” ” The Fetchnotes team’s thoughts on this? Plainly, it sucks.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

We began working on the project in November of 2013. TZ: Could a Buddytruck customer potentially use your product as a delivery service for things such as Craigslist sales or giving items to friends? TZ: How long has Buddytruck been active? AJ: Buddytruk has been active and accepting pickups in Los Angeles since August 1, 2014.

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