socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Financial details of the sale were not announced. Gores acquired Peoplenet in 2016, through its Gores Small Capitalization Partners fund. Los Angeles-based private equity investor The Gores Group has sold one of its portfolio firms, Atlanta-based Peoplenet , to Boston-based Bullhorn. READ MORE>>.

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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. While VR startups raised plenty of cash in 2016 and 2017, slow headset sales have caused startups to focus on building for a virtual future that might take a couple more years to reach. The Social Experiment.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2020

Financial terms of the sale were not announced. funding round for Docupace in 2016. Palisades said it sold its interests in Docupace to another private equity investor, FTV Capital. Docupace is led by CEO Mark Tapling; the company also is backed by San Diego-based TVC Capital. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2016

Financial terms of the sale was not announced. Clearlake Capital said it expects the sale to complete in the third quarter of 2016. Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced this morning that it has sold Netmotion Wireless , a developer of mobile security software, to The Carlyle Group.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2020

K1 Investment Management said the sale is its second in the last few months; the company sold Checkmarkx LLC to Hellman & Friedman LLC back in April, in a deal that valued Checkmarkx at $1.15 FMG Suite is a developer of cloud-based marketing automation software specifically for financial services professionals and advisors.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

According to At&T CFO John Stephens, the company may sell of its 10 percent stake in Hulu as part of a larger sale of "non-core" assets after it paid $85.4 Time Warner purchased its 10 percent stake in Hulu in 2016. billion for Time Warner. AT&T now owns Warner Bros., READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

What are your specific marketing and sales plans? You need to identify pricing details, sales channels, strategic partners and a customized marketing plan consistent with your industry and target segment. Technically, this is your exit strategy, usually a merger and acquisition (M&A) or initial public stock offering (IPO).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. The reason that marketing resonated so much for us as a 2016 priority is: Portfolio. We can help portfolio companies with announcements, PR strategies, crisis management and so forth.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP. They've told their large enterprise customers they're sunsetting the product in 2016, and with that announcement, we've gotten a large number of their base evaluating our system. Those vendors were challenged to meet the needs of large enterprises.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

But in my experience as a startup advisor, too many entrepreneurs get stuck there, and always find excuses for not really exploring mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and alliance alternatives. For example, at any given moment in your business, you may be limited by development, marketing, or sales. Think outside the box.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. As part of the sales process, SimpleLegal sets the expectation that its champions will provide introductions to their fellow colleagues at other companies. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

Resist the channel sales pitch for exclusivity. Avoid direct sales forces and wholly owned channels initially. These expansions can be lucrative, but may require more complex strategic partner arrangements or even acquisitions. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/01/2016.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In 2016, that represented a couple of unique concepts. There are lots of transaction costs which occur both on acquisition of customers and on returns, and those costs are real, and must be considered in how we price the products. Brad Stewart: The company had two previous lives. The other part, is car subscriptions are very expensive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

Use experiments to test every element of your business model – cost, price, marketing, sales channel, customer acquisition cost, lead conversion rate, and lifetime value. Growth constraints would include staffing shortages, funding needs, quality problems, and sales coverage. Validate every key element of your business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

Investors expect to hear annual revenues, average margins, customer acquisition costs and sales pipelines. This should include financial, marketing, sales, and operations, all with a record of working together in setting milestones, managing results, and focusing on the market opportunity. You need both for maximum impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. You need to nurture non-organic growth partnerships and acquisitions to maximize your valuation. Not every entrepreneur needs to scale.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

For 2015, there were 133 information security M&A deals, according to 451 Research’s Tech M&A Outlook 2016. This has been evident with recent acquisitions beyond Symantec and Blue Coat – Avast and AVG, Cisco and CloudLock , IBM and Resilient Systems , and most recently Carbon Black and Confer. Why is this happening?

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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. Biogen has been very deliberate in its dealmaking, reluctant to make a big splash with a large acquisition. George joined Biogen at a very challenging time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

The total proceeds raised in Q2 2016 from IPOs diminished by three-quarters compared to Q2 2015. You better have lined up a major international expansion, some major acquisition candidates, or a wealth of unfilled orders. 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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If your comfort zone is relying on gut reactions, it’s time to stretch your understanding of what constitutes customer acquisition cost, margins, pipeline closure rates, and sales ROI. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 09/13/2016. Celebrate small successes with the team.

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