Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

and listening for about 90 seconds. for two minutes talking about why I think people wrongly obsess about their number of Twitter followers and had a nice little debate about it with Guy. Think about the creative tension. (If you’re interested you can watch my comments by fast forwarding to minute 31.25

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

With the new capital, SpotOn has raised $628 million since its inception. The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. What better than to have capital from somebody who has actually done it in the trenches? Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

Previous backers include Sequoia Capital, SilverLake, Dragoneer and Ant Group, among others. and plans to use its new capital in part to continue to grow there and globally. Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. Jeb Spencer: We consider ourselves a private equity firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

Startups in a world of massive markets can be confusing. The law of large numbers, platforms that can make your company blow up unexpectedly and the trendy nature of tech markets can be deceiving. This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

As we close out our contributions for the end of 2018, here's Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital. I started thinking about some of the people I know who I admire, respect and love the most and how they achieve their goals. Lexus upended the US car market with vehicles that were light years ahead of the junk Detroit was producing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. I’ve definitely been wrong on market value.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

They can elect directors for their class of stock, approve mergers and acquisitions; approve increases or changes to the capital structure of the company and other more minor actions. Some investor board members are also member of boards for companies that may overlap in markets or even compete directly, although rare.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. This question runs from about minute 2 – minute 8. This is minutes 8-11.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Before jumping into the post I wanted to point out one thing about doing TWiVC and posting my notes here on BSOTT. In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. Newton was tight-lipped about the company’s financials, saying only that since its 2019 raise, the company has seen “explosive” growth. In 2018, Clio made its first acquisition with its buy of Lexicata, a Los Angeles-based legal tech startup.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

One of the portfolio firms of San Diego-based venture capital firm Enterprise Partners , Complete Genomics is set to debut on the market Thursday, after pricing its IPO this evening. Complete Genomics will trade on the NASDAQ Global Market as GNOM. Enterprise Partners owns about 14.8 per share for the company.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

Learn more about the SBIR grant, and how to apply here. Learn more about the STTR grant, and how to apply here. Learn more about WOSB, and how to apply here. Learn more about the 8(a) business development program, and how to apply here. Learn more about the HUBZone program, and how to apply here.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital today with Jason Calacanis talking about the big VC deals at the moment and talking about the VC industry. It’s about a 30 minute video (or about as long as it normally takes to read my rambling posts! IPO market is back. I was asked if I would pay $80 million.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

When people talk about “online food delivery” services, chances are that they’ll think of the Uber Eats, Instacarts and Getirs of this world. “We are still the first mover in this space,” Xu said when I asked him in an interview about rivals. The funding is coming from a wide mix of investors.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

“Our team couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to join Fastly to continue to drive forward security protections that empower developers. But we also believe this is a great moment to showcase the diversity of the LA technology scene,” wrote Signal Sciences chief executive Andrew Peterson, in a direct message.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired. It was interesting to see the acquisition of Accordent - it seems unusual to have only put in $4M in to a company in so many years, and yet you had a good exit? Talk more about your philosophy of investments?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Expand the market for both. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone. Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

Now the five-year-old firm, with newly found significant capital in the bank , is attempting to replicate its success in international markets. The firm has about 90% of its clients in India today, something it intends to change in the coming quarters. “60% so for us that market is critically important,” he said. “We

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

. “What we are seeing is that there’s a significant appetite from public market investors to interactive entertainment as a category,” said Scopely co-chief executive Walter Driver. If we want to be the leading company in the space, we have to be capitalized like the leading the company in the space.” billion. .

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? .

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Last week, I wrote about an alternative to venture capital called revenue-based financing and before that, I jotted down some notes on one of VCs’ favorite spaces: cannabis tech. Before I tell you about a few other up-and-coming beverage makers, I must beg the question: Does the beverage industry need disrupting?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. So if you’re able to raise easily no problem.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The company said it expects the offering to close on or about February 8th. The offering is being underwritten by Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC, Northland Securities Inc., Davidson & Co., Maxim Group, and Ladenberg Thalman & Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

when a technology startup, its investors or the market believe in robust growth rates writ large. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. __. faux·men·tum.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The company said the initial acquisition values StyleHaul at $151.4M, not including that potential earnout. StyleHaul was venture backed by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Juvo Capital, RezVen Partners, WaveMaker Ventures (formerly Siemer Ventures), and Machinima''s Allen DeBevoise. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Scopely said it would use the capital to continue its strategy of developing and acquiring new games as it looks to continue its run of six consecutive mobile games that will gross $100 million or more in lifetime revenue. “The barrier to entry from independent studios is to find product-market fit,” says Driver.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

Are you raising an appropriate amount of capital relative to your progress, relative to your team size and relative to your needs? VCs want you to raise the “appropriate” amount of capital, which I would define as what is reasonable given your progress to date, your resources and your needs for an 18–24 month period.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2014

We also built two very high-quality mobile apps that we were experimenting with in terms of building better customer acquisition toools. Actually, it came through an introduction from our friends at Partners Group who knew that the company was raising capital. Startup Lessons Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures'

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of March 2019, continues San Diego-based ResMed’s (NYSE: RMD ) “connected healthcare” push that began about five years ago, as Xconomy chronicled last year. [ Updated 12/3/18, 3:30 pm, with CEO comments.

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