2019 Acquisition Demand Sales 
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 9, 2020
There could be more demand for electric vehicles post COVID-19 crisis, believes Energica founder Livia Cevolini. From lockdown in her Northern Italy home, Cevolini shared perspective on the future of motorcycling, acquisition offers and plans to recharge her company when the COVID-19 crisis subsides.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 27, 2018
If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018. Seismic, a sales software company, raised $100M and became a unicorn. Nonetheless, I expect that in 2019 the VC market will shift toward demanding profit.
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Xconomy
JULY 30, 2019
About this time last year, DNA sequencing giant Illumina upped its financial projections, estimating its sales would grow 20 percent year-over-year. On Monday, Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) informed the markets that it had overshot the mark with its 2019 estimates. It exceeded that goal, with revenue rising 21 percent to $3.33
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.
socalTECH
JUNE 13, 2019
In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. That just doesn't happen.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2019
With the real data from that surge, you need to take a hard look at business model realities, cost of customer acquisition, inventory costs, and other key metrics. You can’t afford to close every sale, or handle every customer complaint. With that first wave of customers comes a whole set of additional demands on your time and energy.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. How profitable is my product or service? We recently added Richard Mumby to our leadership team.
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