socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. Mike Whitmire: We put the first version of our software out in 2014, and got a couple of beta clients. We would have been able to been more effective, and retained a greater percentage of equity. What are you working on? How long has your software been available?

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

funding led by Level Equity. What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. That allowed us to bring in a new investor, Level Equity, and we raised a little over $16M in capital to scale the business.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In order to close the sale, the bar owner “threw in” four season tickets to the Green Bay Packers football season. Fast Forward to 2014: According to James Carlton , “Every Packers game for the past 54 years has been sold out and the team''s season-ticket waiting list has nearly 90,000 people on it. Shenson nothing.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The startup has already secured a seed investment from Maveron and CRV, TechCrunch has learned, and will receive another $150,000 in exchange for 7% equity upon entering YC next year. Ben Jeffries launched his startup, Influencer , in London in 2014 after his close friend matched with Caspar Lee, a Yo uTuber with 7.3 focused fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Social media is not rocket science.

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Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

There is no black magic involved in predicting the future, if you use these four simple steps, with my basic rules of thumb to keep you on the right track: Determine your margin on sales. Forecast sales-volume expectations. Forecast sales-volume expectations. Be willing to give up 20 to 33 percent of your equity to support this.

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Entrepreneur Startup Pricing Sales 102

Both Sides of the Table

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. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. On the other hand, there are some roles in a startup where Boomers are probably not the best candidates: Constantly-on-the-road sales territory management roles. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Report 106

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I often advise startup companies not to try and pin all of your brand equity into an announcement. What’s mostly been keeping her busy in the last few months is onboarding our new CFO – Audrey Lee – and handling the 10-month buildout of our new Santa Monica offices, which are expected to come online in Feb or March of 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. It’s pure irony.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two.

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Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

We had already begun this process, when that dislocation occurred, which enabled us to assemble a team that not only came from engineering and architecture, but also sales. We were able to hire Mike Riley, the voice of Iron Man, who had been the global head of sales for Active. He''s truly the Derek Jeter of the endurance space.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

That includes e-commerce retailers, which continue to claim a growing slice of overall retail sales. Last year alone, online holiday sales rose 15% over 2013 figures, including increases of 32% on Thanksgiving, 26% on Black Friday, and 17% on Cyber Monday. Plus, holiday e-commerce sales are widely expected to continue rising in 2015.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin). —When Merck (NYSE: MRK ) bought Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $9.5

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

AJ: Buddytruk has been active and accepting pickups in Los Angeles since August 1, 2014. Not having technical backgrounds ourselves, we were fortunate to have friends develop the app in exchange for equity. TZ: How long has Buddytruck been active? We began working on the project in November of 2013. AJ: Absolutely!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi to introduce a new kind of structure called “ convertible equity.” My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly. Seriously, dude?

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