Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, expected to reach $114 billion globally by 2021, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. He points out that the word crowd precedes funding in crowdfunding. Of course, if the campaign does not meet or exceed the funding objective, you get nothing.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. And at the other end is where you’ll typically see our larger investments and acquisitions,” Kashyap writes. With a formalized venture fund, Microsoft now has a seat at the table.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. First, no matter what anybody tells you (people don’t want to believe that we’re influenced by the crowd), social proof is hugely important in fund raising.

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JULY 17, 2018

Since I know not everybody reads Twitter I thought I’d collect them here in a blog post. Payback periods on customer acquisition way more important to you in the near-term. The other day I posted some advice on Twitter that I just did free-formed from thoughts going through my head from recent conversations.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Thing Labs was foundedin June of 2008, with funding from Jones, Polaris Venture Partners, SoftTech VC, and Jeff Clavier. This is at least the second time Jones has benefited from an AOL acquisition; his own startup, Userplane, was acquired by AOL in 2006.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

ASG Technologies, the Florida-based software company backed by activist hedge fund Elliott Management, has upped its offer for San Diego’s Mitek Systems to $11.50 per share from $10 apiece. That’s according to a Nov. 26 letter the Florida-based software company made public Monday.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

The company recently raised a $750,000 seed round of funding. They made a number of significant acquisitions in that space, My co-founders, Sammer and Chris, worked together at Internet Brands. Brian Nickerson: Obviously, we''re delighted to close our seed round of funding. What is Chippmunk? We have complementary skill sets.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Elliott Management, a New York-based activist hedge fund, has had San Diego-based Mitek Systems in its crosshairs for months.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). What do you do when you have finally raised seed funds?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Culver City-based Bestofmedia Group, publisher of gadget and electronics blog site Tom's Guide, has acquired Computing.net, a provider of high tech information and technical support. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to Bestofmedia, Computing.Net is now part of Tom's Guide. READ MORE>>

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It was a year of big exits—both IPOs and acquisitions—for tech and life sciences companies. Venture funding remained strong, but more money went to fewer (and later-stage) companies overall. 2018 was a year of ups and downs for the business and technology community.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Called Dell Technologies Capital, the investment arm plans to provide funding to about 20 startups this year, Scott Darling, president of group, told Bloomberg , which first reported the news this morning.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2020

When a group of scientists from Amira Pharmaceuticals wanted to start a new biotech after the company’s 2011 acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb , Celgene provided seed funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. It sucked.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The company hasn’t raised any additional funds since that initial financing round. Financial terms of the acquisition were. Sitari was the first of eight companies spun up through the partnership between the Southern California investment outfit and British pharma company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

We covered the following and much more: - FourSquare ( rumors of both an $80m pre money or a $100 million acquisition ). Quora ( funding led by Benchmark at a crazy valuation: $86 million ). My blog and what it’s done for my deal flow. - I was asked if I would pay $80 million. Crazy valuation. and much more.

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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. Dry powder levels in North American and European PE funds reached new heights of $738.7 As of Aug. 1, private equity firms in North America and Europe had secured $212.6

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. But this gets all the space on prominent blogs because it’s what bloggers like to cover.&# It’s self selecting.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

An obvious place to look for help is the venture community—Bruce Booth of Atlas Ventures pointed out in a recent blog that venture capital is doing well, and is positioned to do even better in the future. pension funds) with little appetite for experimentation with new managers and more funds.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC. Attitude – Brad and Jason clearly exhibit an entrepreneur-centric approach to the venture funding process. Also, consider asking for a carve-out for acquisitions.” What Not To Do.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

Perhaps the most misused terms I see these days from entrepreneurs involve CAC (customer acquisition costs) and LTV (life time value) and a lack of understanding these critical components is driving many companies to premature failure. CAC is often measured incorrectly and doesn’t often doesn’t capture the true costs of acquisition.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. But consider periods of time where the average time a company exists before acquisition or IPO is 7-10 years. I doubt it.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It was the fifth straight quarterly decline in the number of companies getting VC funding, according to the report. Third-quarter funding fell by nearly a third from the prior quarter, when venture investors deployed $22.14 PitchBook data also shows a nearly 29 percent decline in year-over-year funding, from the $21.1

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. ” I highly recommend reading it. Profitability.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. It is very unique to have a single source of a fund that size.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

With the momentum and support of the local region with us, we were able to negotiate a profit share with our developer given the extent of tenant improvements Citrix was going to personally fund which was highly irregular for this region. You can also check out his startup advice blog HERE. Greathouse: Agreed. Brilliant. .

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

But billions of dollars in acquisitions will be left by the side of the road. Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin).

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

Venture capital investors poured more than $28.2 billion into U.S. companies during the first three months of 2018—marking the strongest single quarter in at least a dozen years, according to the Venture Monitor Report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. Just over a year later, Jurvetson led the Series A round of venture funding for Nervana Systems.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. You and I were talking about a startup recently and where they might go for seed stage funding, what is your impression on that aspect here in Los Angeles? What are some good posts that I should check out on your blog?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

billion acquisition offer. But like Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate,” the big enterprise software company Workday lured Adaptive Insights away from the IPO altar with a more attractive deal—a $1.55 Pleasanton, CA-based Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY ) wanted to marry Adaptive’s financial decision-making applications with its own suite of.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Sales people (and website customer acquisition folks) all think in terms of funnels and yet non-sales professionals seldom do. VC meetings are easy to come by but money in the bank is the only thing that will fund your next 12 months. We all know the type of person who lives in the top end of the funnel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries. 406 Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, with an estimated contribution of $30 billion in 2015, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. He points out that the word crowd precedes funding in crowdfunding. Of course, if the campaign does not meet or exceed the funding objective, you get nothing.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission made two major life sciences calls this week, dropping the hammer on one acquisition proposal that would have. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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