Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

What they don’t realize is that about half the investment deals fail to close at this stage, including mergers and acquisitions , during the due-diligence process. Remember that investors at this stage have heard primarily from the founder, and only reviewed written business plans and collateral. Skeletons in the closet.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 -- Startups: The Year That Was and The Year That's Ahead. We invite back Benjamin Kuo, editor and founder of socalTECH.com, for another year in review. What were the big exits this year along the Central Coast (IPOs, acquisitions)? Cal Lutheran University Center for Entrepreneurship.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

s IPO filing on Thursday is the tidbit that the company more than tripled its number of employees in the last year, going from 600 full time employees on December 31, 2015, to 1,859 as of December 31, 2016. The company said in the S-1 that it expects headcount to grow in the foreseeable future.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2018

Technology from foreign nations may also be subject to stricter “immigration” rules. It’s not only people from other countries that are struggling harder to get into the United States these days, it seems.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. Just as SimpleLegal has success ousting competitors, its Customer Success team must be diligent to avoid being likewise a victim of employee churn. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Bro Benefits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly. The culture of a large technology company is to rely on internal development or large, stable, and proven external vendors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

As an angel investor, I’ve learned to believe in this approach, since I have seen great ideas go astray, due to poor execution and I have seen apparently marginal ideas make millions, managed by a savvy entrepreneur. Investors expect to hear annual revenues, average margins, customer acquisition costs and sales pipelines.

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