socalTECH

JULY 20, 2021

Qmerit spun out of ABM in 2016. According to Qmerit, the investment by GIC came alongside an investment from earlier investors Lime Rock New Energy and Schneider Electric. The company claims it has facilitated installations of "tens of thousands" of EV charging stations across North America. Qmerit is led by Chairman and CEO Tracy K.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2019

FTD also agreed to sell both its North American and Latin American businesses to private equity investor Nexus Capital Management , in a move that includes San Diego-based Proflowers. In long, complicated path that wound through Southern California's high tech industry, flower delivery network operator FTD has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2016

A new report, issued Monday, says that IPO activity has slowed significantly in Q1, with a 39 percent drop in volume and 70 percent decline in total capital raised versus Q1 of last year. billion in Q1 of 2016--the weakest first quarter of the year since 2009. per share IPO price in November. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Fifth Wall led the company’s Series A round, which also included the new investor Global Founders Capital and previous investors First Round Capital, Base 10 Ventures, Capital Theory and Village Global. ” It hasn’t been a straight road for Traff and his co-founder Gregory Price.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 31, 2015

We can’t give you a recipe for success, but here are 10 ways to lower your startup’s expenses and free up capital in 2016. Good credit, bulk purchases, or cash payments may qualify you for a lower price. Office equipment is a huge startup expense that eats away at your working capital. Take advantage of the Cloud.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2017

Private equity investors have more capital at their disposal than at any time in more than a decade, which could boost prices for companies seeking acquisitions. billion as of year-end 2016, exceeding the levels seen at the end of. As of Aug. 1, private equity firms in North America and Europe had secured $212.6 As of Aug.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, crowdfunding still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

After wrestling with recalcitrant homeowners, husbanding their parcels of land to keep their property values high, the state’s leadership passed a law that increased the availability of new rental units and put more money into homeowners’ pockets in 2016.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Niko Bonatsos [ General Catalyst ] , Catherine Ulrich [ FirstMark Capital ] and Jacob Mullins [ Shasta Ventures ]. “[VR] 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. Reality Checks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: The story is, I was at the tail end of my last fund, Canyon Creek Capital, and I wanted to try something different. This was in mid-2016, and the decreasing costs of robotics and computer vision made me think that the process of making a burger could be fully automated. What is Miso Robotics? Coli, they become Chipotle.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

Soaring prices of Bitcoin and other so-called digital tokens were attracting investments from speculators hoping to get rich quick—but these virtual coin values were also known to drop just as suddenly, the US Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council noted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2016

For decades, efforts to satisfy customers have been built around demographics – capitalizing on race, ethnicity, gender, income, and other attributes. Customers react poorly when they hear your value claims for them, and see more value to you (bottled water in your hotel room at a high price as a “convenience” to you).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The fact is that valuations are largely set by top venture capital investors and financial firms, and they all have their own proprietary formulas for assigning value. When top tier investors compete for a piece of the action, the price can go up exponentially. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/29/2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Cultures and values are different, pricing norms are unique, and customer needs have to be validated in each location. Angel and venture capital investors look for opportunities that are highly scalable, and have already demonstrated good traction. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/13/2016. Anyone can do it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

It’s like trying to sell a home still being built at next year’s dream market price. According to the Angel Capital Association (ACA) blog, the average startup valuation for new ventures receiving angel investments has been around $2.7 Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 03/09/2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I saw a few friends politely suggesting that “now was a great stock buying opportunity” meaning that given the stock market is off by 10% it was a great chance to buy and lock in presumably low prices before the market rises again. I’m not so sure. And I said so publicly. I have to assume other investors feel the way I do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Startups funded by large venture-capital investments rarely think about productivity. Without constraints on pricing and size, computers would still look like mainframes rather than fit in your wristwatch. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/19/2016. Focus on a top productivity bottleneck each week.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

There was an explosion in number of startups both because it was cheap and there was tons of available capital. Specifically I mean teams that were going too fast at raising, optimizing around the highest price or avoiding larger investors because they wanted a lot of small players who couldn’t exert any control (terms, price, etc.).

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Bryan Biniak: Connected Travel was founde d n 2016. At some point, something more compelling and interesting came up, and I left and went back to Nokia as an EIR in their venture capital fund, focused on mixed and virtual reality and IoT. Tell me about Connected Travel? We've done very well, and are funded 100 percent with revenues.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

That number is projected to GROW to 70 billion by 2016 (Source: BIA Kelsey). ” The most obvious phone call ad unit is what we call a “considered purchase,” which is high price, complex and requires lots of information or lots of choice. But let me start with some data. But phone calls are dead? Home alarms.

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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. Some of these acquisitions may carry price tags into the billions of dollars, while the vast majority will be smaller deals that bring a best-of-breed point solution into the product catalog. Why is this happening?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The startup industry may be “resetting,” which doesn’t mean a “crash” but rather just a resetting of valuations, timescales, winners/losers, capital sources and the relative emphasis of growth rates vs. burn rates. If you can get a round done at the price you expect – well done. Why does this matter?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be. Here are some stats to give you a sense: • Year over year revenue grew 51% in 2015 and we’re forecasting the same again for 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. It pains me to see the typical (and predictable) responses on Twitter, “VCs want prices to drop!” ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Fast forward 3 years and looking out into the 2016 horizon, what do I see? “A surge in prices, more than warranted by fundamentals & usually in a particular sector.

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