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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

The numbers represent a 45% increase from the previous quarter’s tally, but a 14% drop from the same quarter in 2019. You better have lined up a major international expansion, some major acquisition candidates, or a wealth of unfilled orders. New stockholders will expect to see rapid growth. Analysts want escalating profits.

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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

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s always tempting to think that more product variations will satisfy more customers and lead to new sales. Yet I still see expense budgets based on traditional channels, with no strict metrics on cost of customer acquisition by channel, or lifetime customer value. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/26/2019.

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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. It's been one of the biggest acquisition in Los Angeles in the last thirteen to fifteen months. How did the acquisition come aboutwere you looking for a buyer at the time?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. I oversee sales, marketing and partnerships, and my role is really trying to figure out which brands make most sense to partner with MuteSix.

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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. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/15/2019.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Another achievement in 2016 was the sale of our Irvine based portfolio company, Digital Map Solutions. In 2016, Illumina announced a new venture called Grail which plans to develop a blood test by 2019 to detect all cancers at their early stages. Let's just hope it is all more like morning in America and not just a house of cards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

In addition, many corporations have quarterly filing requirements, or even monthly ones if you have payroll taxes, sales taxes, or state filing requirements. Also, mergers, acquisitions, and alliances with other companies almost always drive the need to modify your organizational entity for legal or operational purposes.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? It wasn’t just front-end processes like sales tools, marketing funnels, dynamic pricing, driver routes and so forth but we also had to build comprehensive systems to manage numerous warehouses across four different cities.

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