socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Costa Mesa-based venture capital investor CerraCap Ventures says it has seen an exit out of its investment portfolio, saying that the sale of digital gifting and exchange company Swych resulted in a 4.3X return for the firm in less than two years.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

Pernix Therapeutics is slashing its headcount by more than 20 percent as the specialty pharmaceutical company tries to move toward profitability after a streak of acquisitions. Morristown, NJ-based Pernix (NASDAQ: PTX ) will cut 60 workers , mostly from its neurology sales staff, the company said today.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2016

The company reported $27.793M in sales for its year ended December 31, 2015. The company has applied to list as AIRG. The company's IPO is being underwritten by a single underwriter, Northland Capital Markets. The company is backed by GEN3 Capital and Northwater Intellectual Property. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

ResMed said it will pay $800M in cash for ResMed, which had net sales of approximately $113M in 2015. San Diego-based medical device provider ResMed has acquired healthcare software developer Brightree , in a deal worth $800M, according to the companies.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. It has made some 15 acquisitions in the last two years, including Boston Organics and EJ Food Distributor this year.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2015

The Tech Coast Angels , one of the most active angel investment groups nationwide in addition to here in Southern California, said Friday that it invested in eight new and follow on deals in the first quarter of 2015, in addition to seeing two exits out of its portfolio.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 For 2015, there were 133 information security M&A deals, according to 451 Research’s Tech M&A Outlook 2016. In an ideal world, and from the perspective of a venture investor, this would absolutely be the case.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 21, 2019

Thorstein Veblen coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption” in 1899 when commenting on the human desire to publicly display wealth through the acquisition of consumer goods. The Supreme crowbar, which retailed at $32, is a much better deal, reselling for $80 – $399. Veblen Goods.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Customers may be attracted to your marketing message, but investors look harder at the startup team, seeking superior expertise in the key areas of growing a business, product domain, financial, marketing and sales. Specific elements of your marketing and sales plans. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

That’s down from 69 in the first five months of 2015, and 115 over the same five-month period in 2014, according to Barrons. The total proceeds raised in Q2 2016 from IPOs diminished by three-quarters compared to Q2 2015. In fact, IPOs are down again this year, with just 31 companies going public in the U.S. in the first five months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2015

Startup owners need to assume a three to five year wait for a liquidity event, such as acquisition or going public, before they can cash out. Make sure the government waits for a stock sale to collect taxes. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 5/8/2015. At that time the original split makes all the difference.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

It was a decade ago that I led the sale of Expertcity (creator of GoToMeeting) to Citrix. During the early 2000’s, my team grew the company to one of the largest SaaS businesses of its day, with sales of $70 million. Circa 2001, Yahoo publicly declared that they didn’t do cost per acquisition (CPA) deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

What if your customer acquisition cost assumptions have to change? This can be projected top down from market share assumptions, or bottom up from actual costs and sales results. Each has a different set of variables for sales, revenue flow, marketing costs and personnel. entrepreneur Excel financial model startup'

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2018

I was the co-founder and CEO of an e-commerce company in 2001, which did eco-friendly beauty and style and fashion products, although more in the flash sales model. Justine Lassoff: We launched in 2015, and we have now been around for three years. Where is the business today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2015

You also need a sales pipeline, customer acquisition costs and marketing costs as a percent of revenue. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/5/2015. This means delegating tasks and not micro-managing, as well as more time spent working on the business, rather than in the business.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

But billions of dollars in acquisitions will be left by the side of the road. 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).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

We caught up with CEO Serge Gojkovich to learn more about what the company is up to, and to hear more about the company''s acquisition of Curby this week. We think we''ll be in about 15 markets by the end of 2015, and we''re on a very good track, and are more than halfway there. So how did this acquisition come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/9/2015. business due diligence entrepreneur investors startups'

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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. But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

It’s currently Biogen’s top-selling product, generating close to $2 billion in sales during the first half of 2016. In January 2015, Biogen shares were at over $400 apiece as the company was gaining steam on early positive signals for aducanumab. George joined Biogen at a very challenging time.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Fun Fact: Preventing spreadsheet abuse since 2015 – one company at a time. B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects. Sales Huddle Group. AngelList: [link]. From: Walnut, CA. AngelList: [link]. AngelList: [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Image via Pixabay Making more sales quickly today is no longer about selling. They don’t want to be pushed into a sale, but they love to be pulled in by what is important to them. They don’t want to be pushed into a sale, but they love to be pulled in by what is important to them. Make every sale a win-win outcome.

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