Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

A November 2014 report by Kiplinger asserts that economic momentum is back on track. A healthy manufacturing sector, likely to gain even more strength in 2015, is creating an impetus to invest. 2015 business optimism entrepreneur strategy' economy toward a self-sustaining and continuing economic expansion. Marty Zwilling.

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MAY 8, 2017

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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MAY 5, 2015

San Diego-based software developer Tealium , which develops software used to manage enterprise "tags", those snippets of codes used for tracking advertising, marketing, analytics, and other efforts, said today that it had 100% growth in the first quarter of 2015. in funding from Georgian Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and others.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But the no-longer nascent sneaker and streetwear market is a big market, with the potential to reach $30 billion in sales globally by 2030, according to a recent report by the research firm, Cowen ( cited by The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the financing). ” Money, it’s gotta be the shoes.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

A report, issued earlier this week by venture firm the Female Founders Fund , says that Los Angeles, and New York, are better markets than Silicon Valley to find funding for female founders. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. It was the fifth straight quarterly decline in the number of companies getting VC funding, according to the report.

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APRIL 14, 2016

in venture capital in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion raised in Q4, and even lower than Q1 of 2015, when $2.01 Southern California startups raised $810.5M billion was raised in the region.

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JULY 18, 2016

in a public offering on the NASDAQ Capital Market. The company's IPO is being underwritten by a single underwriter, Northland Capital Markets. The company reported $27.793M in sales for its year ended December 31, 2015. The company is backed by GEN3 Capital and Northwater Intellectual Property. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

billion invested in venture capital in Q4 of 2015, according to the latest numbers released over the weekend by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. The PwC/NVCA MoneyTree report, which uses data from Thomson Reuters, tallied $693.17M in deals in the Los Angeles region; $276.1M

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MAY 6, 2015

The funding came from Herculus Technology Growth Capital, and comes as the company reported sharper losses and a significant dropoff in revenues. on revenues of $99.56M for the first quarter of 2015, compared with a loss of $6.3M ReachLocal said it lost $12.7M on revenues of $124.7M in Q1 of the prior year.

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JULY 15, 2016

billion in venture capital in Q2 of 2016, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters. billion raised in the region just a year ago in Q1 of 2015. Southern California companies raised $2.49

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. Mamoon Hamid is heading from Social Capital to Kleiner Perkins. Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2021

As reported by Bloomberg, Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen took to Facebook on Sunday to post about the nation’s capacity to provide water to its citizens and businesses in the face of the worst drought the nation has faced in 56 years. Intel alone used 9 billion gallons of water in 2015).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Venture capital is about backing the leaders of tomorrow who imagine the world as it should be and aren’t constrained by what it is today. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Why do they invest in venture capital?

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

According to a report released today, financial technology companies around the world attracted $12.7 billion in venture capital across 836 investments last year. That is down 13 percent from a peak in 2015, when global fintech investment soared to $14.6 Fintech has seen a frothy flood of. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We need to be on a path-finding mission to find tangential investments,” he told reporters.

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APRIL 17, 2015

billion in investments in Q1 of 2015, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association. MoneyTree report, which was released this evening, The quarter was the biggest, investment quarter for Southern California since the dot com era. Southern California saw a staggering $1.9

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the mega-class of 177 biotechs that went public from 2012 through 2015, women held 11 percent of the board seats, according to their 2016 regulatory filings. That’s according to British recruitment firm Liftstream and its new study of biotech companies that went public in the recent boom years.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

While we’re looking at venture deal numbers from the past year , let’s consider the education technology industry, which isn’t broken out by sector in the general reports I’ve seen. billion invested in 198 deals in 2015, according to EdSurge. The EdSurge report. education tech companies totaled $1.03

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Showing little concern for stock-market volatility or worries over the Brexit, venture capital firms pumped $15.3 billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. venture capital market leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. The latest quarter also was down by 33 percent from the same quarter in 2015, when VCs pumped $420.3

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

That’s the goal Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone set for themselves when they founded Los Angeles-based Relativity Space in 2015. billion since its founding and initial capitalization by Elon Musk); and United Launch Alliance, the joint venture between the defense contracting giants Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2016

After the national MoneyTree Report was released last week, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Ryan Spencer said he spent time on a call with Thomson Reuters, which provides the raw data, trying to figure out a change in the numbers for venture capital activity in San Diego. But the San Diego data was off. That was OK, Spencer said.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital. million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There is no rule that marketing needs to report to the founder, or that every startup needs a chief operating officer. Some of the best startup cultures have no hierarchical reporting, yet everyone knows who drives each of the initiatives. Winning in business is all about building momentum, and capitalizing on that progress.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Venture capital firms have increased their agtech investments by 80 percent since 2012, bringing total VC investment in the sector to a total of $3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group and AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture technology. They also queried 15 VC firms.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

Dauntless says its simplified business structure is more capital-efficient, and there are important tax advantages for investors and other stakeholders. We are taking capital as needed, not sooner.”. It should result in shorter timelines, lower costs, and higher returns. “We We really have a development focus,” Martin told me.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. You can remote in, pull some logs, and pull compliance data and reports. Paul Myer: Veracity was originally part of Frost Data Capital, as part of their incubator. We raised money from Frost Data Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kaufmann Foundation , the numbers are finally here to show it. The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

With lack of capital, we eventually began selling courses to partners to help us both increase our income and to help Seth make the jump to full time. We even considered raising capital. In late 2015, with Seth’s blessing, I filed for a new LLC with Seth as an equal partner and called it none other than SOB LLC.

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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. in July 2015. Alex Lash contributed to this report. 4, shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb closed at $75.32. Today, shares are worth just over $50. The reason? Here’s more from CNBC. THIS WEEK IN SICKLE CELL….

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JULY 28, 2017

However, if you look at things like the Verizon data breach report, stolen identity is the number one issue out there. In 2015, for example, 60 percent plus of attacks were somehow surrounding the root cause of misuse of stolen credentials. Vinny Smith was the founder of Quest, and Toba Ventures is his venture capital firm.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

. —The Mayo Clinic of Rochester, MN, reported that a misdiagnosis of a heart problem called long QT syndrome led to an unnecessary implant for a young boy. The Mayo Clinic cardiologist behind the report published a study earlier this year about long QT misdiagnosis leading to improper defibrillator implants.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

I was actually working for The Hollywood Reporter at the time and enjoyed the benefits of this marketing drive.:). Register here for his upcoming Silicon Beach Fest June 24-27, 2015). Please excuse the quality of this pic, it’s more to showcase one such partnership. I’m ready to get back to the creatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season. We all want larger amounts of capital to hire more senior people and to build bigger teams. Team Building.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2015

According to many reports , about half of startups fail in the first five years. Here are some key elements to look for and plan to capitalize on for the next iteration: A deeper level of understanding of the market. Write these down, and build a new plan which capitalizes on every insight.

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