Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. With seed up massively between 2006–2014 and A and B rounds relatively flat what you see is a widening of the funnel going into traditional venture. So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. But here is the deck I used to present before our panel if you haven’t seen it already: Final 2014 pre money deck from Mark Suster.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2013

According to the WSJ, Engaged Capital has been buying AeroVironment''s stock, and has been engaging in discussions with AeroVironment''s management, in an attempt to boost the company''s stock price. Engaged Capital is an investor based in Newport Beach. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2014

rolled out the new device at an industry conference for Salesforce.com, Dreamforce 2014. No details on pricing or availability were announced. said the new device will also offer up a "intelligent personal assistant"--courtesy Nuance COmmunications--which will dictate text and emails, play music, post to social media, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Details on the release date and pricing have not been announced. Fullscreen was acquired by Chernin Group and AT&T in September of 2014, and since then has been busy buying up other, online video and streaming companies.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2019

FTD acquired San Diego's ProFlowers in 2014, paying $430M for the online flower and gift delivery service. FTD was spun out from Woodland Hills-based United Online back in November of 2013, after a complex relationship with United Online--better known for running such companies as Classmates, NetZero, MyPoints, Juno, and StayFriends.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Santa Monica-based online auto pricing and sales site TrueCar said it is l‌ooking to improve services to dealers and strengthen relationships with its dealers, through the appointment of a new executive. TrueCar said it has named Brian Skutta as its new Executive Vice President of Dealer Sales and Service.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs. Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In 2014, we raised quite a bit of money from St. The company has grown about 200 percent since 2014, in terms of revenue. They invested in 2014, and asked me to meet with Dallas Imbimbo, the CEO and Founder. Then there was haggling back and forth about price. Cloud, and really went full force. One of my partners was St.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

When Jamie told us he was going to build “Doorbot” (the name prior to Ring) and he explained to us that it was a video security doorbell sold at mass-market prices to bring security to homes that have never been able to afford them?—?we we were sold on the concept immediately. He really thought about helping middle-income families.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you look at the blue line below in what we are calling “private-market IPOs” you’ll see the discernible trend that began in 2014 and has continued through 2018 and you’ll see the impact this has potentially had on public IPOs in green. trillion in value.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2014

The Los Angeles based e-commerce startup Clearance.co , has worked to revolutionize the shopping experience by bringing customers the finest quality, the best selection, the best service, and the lowest priced merchandise. From it’s inception in April 2013 until December 2013, the company generated $2.1

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

If anything, the OculusVR acquisition in 2014 signaled that Facebook saw VR as a social final frontier. Buy your early bird tickets today for just $99 and you’ll save $100 before prices go up. Facebook’s VR future rests on people finding new worlds that they want to step into, how will Oculus make this happen?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2014. In addition to working at Indiegogo, Kate is the co-founder and CMO of The Can Van, the world’s first mobile beer canning service made to bring reasonably priced and environmentally friendly packaging options to California breweries. Including wearables, gaming, smartphones, home and the car.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

The San Francisco-based startup has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $50,000 to mass produce its first batch of 128-bit encrypted and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connected cards, ready for shipping in summer 2014 at just $100. The Coin card is water-resistant and its battery lasts for two years minus recharge. Early birds.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a boon for the South San Francisco startup founded in 2014, but not an unusual haul for competitors in the same field, where the tantalizing promise of a simple test to find cancer sooner, when it is much easier to treat, has emerged from advances in DNA sequencing, sophisticated data crunching, and the understanding of cancer biology.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

But it has proven something of a challenge to understand exactly what its impact will be for individual businesses — especially in light of the fact that many of its provisions won't take effect until 2014 or later, and could even change between now and their effective dates. It depends on the size of the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

In light of a less than savory PR landscape, I saw this event to be an important call to attention to the developements towards the Bitcoin industry for 2014, as well as geographically important gathering of minds and enthusiasts in the space. Setting Up 2014. The ultimate plan? Be the Bloomberg of Bitcoin. Bitcoin specific job boards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Continuing incidences of personal identity theft , as well major personal data breaches , including Capital One (2019), Marriott/Starwood (2018), and Yahoo (2014) still weigh heavily on their decision process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

Investors expect proof that your invention can be manufactured in volume and can justify a sales price at least double the cost to a large customer set that has money to spend. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/11/2014. You need a viable business model and customers. Lock in your sustainable advantage.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Xconomy reported Thursday that support for Proposition 61, the California initiative to rein in drug prices, had slipped in a recent poll to a slim 51 percent majority, with 24 percent opposed and 25 percent undecided. 61 would require state healthcare entities to pay drug prices equal to or less than those paid by the U.S.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

They’re also a controversial part of the national debate over high drug prices, and their increased use has put ophthalmologists in the crosshairs of insurers, the federal government, and the press. billion) in 2014. Drugs that treat a form of vision loss known as age related macular degeneration aren’t just big business.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

It is no secret that the number of private companies with valuations in excess of one billion dollars has skyrocketed since the start of 2014. As show in CBInsight’s chart, the number of such “unicorns” created during the first half of 2014 was roughly equivalent to the number created during the prior three years.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The startup moved off-campus in 2014, with $11 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures. maintains that its module is cost-effective, Duffy said the company is waiting to disclose its pricing at the upcoming International Sanitary Supply Association trade show in Chicago. Like many startups, Brain Corp. While Brain Corp.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We caught up with co-founders Julie Campistron and Jamie Price on the startup. Photo: Jamie Price on left, Julie Campistron on right). Jamie Price: The app originated when I was at a nonprofit back in 2000. In January of 2014, we launched the app, Stop, Breathe, and Think, and just attained incredible grassroots success.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Continuing incidences of personal identity theft , as well major personal data breaches , including Capital One (2019), Marriott/Starwood (2018), and Yahoo (2014) still weigh heavily on their decision process.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This year’s TZ #startupforecast (Jan 28, 2014) was no exception. 2014 looks to be the year of emerging technologies (wearables, bitcoin, etc.) Projection for 2014? Pierce reminds us that even with the closure of Silk Road, the price of Bitcoin didn’t drop, but rose. Summary of Topics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 5/22/2014. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/20/2014. Indeed, there are some success factors that are common to both environments. Are you ready to make it happen?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

The idiosyncrasies of supplier relationships, distribution and pricing are just as important as the generic elements of time and money management. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/07/2014. Find summer internships and part-time work in your field of interest. Get real experience early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2014

Don’t wait for competitors to force the need for better products, lower prices and better customer service. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/05/2014. Encourages innovation and out-of-the-box thinking. In business, this means fostering a mindset of creativity, risk-taking and continuous improvement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

A November 2014 report by Kiplinger asserts that economic momentum is back on track. Recent drops in gas prices are now extending to diesel and even home heating oil. Even though it has been a long haul since the recession, it’s nice to see more optimism as we close out this year and head into a new one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/1/2014. In my view, the pendulum is swinging back, with investors looking more for the traditional indications of business integrity, stability and growth.

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