Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The median VC exit price for deals is $70 million (FLAG Capital via Bryce.VC). There is a mythology amongst some LPs (funds that invest in VCs) and some VCs that “entry price doesn’t matter – only investing in the absolute best entrepreneurs.” So entry price matters a lot. ” That’s b t.

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Startup Technology Venture Capital Santa Barbara 323

TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

million last year, is among hair businesses aimed at women and people of color, like Rebundle , Morado and theCut , attracting venture capital dollars. All of the stylists are independent contractors and set their own pricing. The price a consumer pays depends on the stylist chosen. The company, which raised $1.7

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Tool Customer Custom Marketing 179

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Liberty Street Funds, Walleye Capital, Japan Post Capital, Joseph Stone Capital, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Tech Pioneers Fund are among the new backers, who are being joined by existing investors Celtic House Asia Partners, INP Capital, Reimagined Ventures, Moringa Capital Management, and others, along with other unnamed participants. .”

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Startup Platform Software Los Angeles 249

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 senior sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business 6 months. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Dave’s note: Our guest author this week is John Huston, founder of the 300+ member Ohio TechAngel Funds and a past Chairman of both the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute. . So, rarely will this strategy or outcome enable investors to reap their target in a sale. By John Huston.

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Layoffs Sales Acquisition Startup 120

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. Hiring more people isn’t always the right answer. Internet scale.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

Although this is a somewhat unusual real estate transaction, it reflects a surprisingly common scenario in the business world of mergers and acquisitions, with one important distinction. My House Is Not For Sale. Even the eccentric King of Pop communicated the price he was willing to pay for Neverland. What is your price?”.

Company 100

Company Companies Santa Barbara Pricing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. The reverse merger process itself doesn’t raise any capital. Marty Zwilling.

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Funding Summary Entrepreneur Acquisition 104

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

99.9999% of you won’t be contemplating raising capital at $500 million any time soon or selling for a billion. My friend Christin Herron of Intel Capital weighed in on the issue. But if you raise the money at the big price (or any price) please go in with the expectation that you are going to build a large, long-term business.

Venture Capital 316

Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million. the sale of the company for $1 billion. That’s return, not exit price of the company. It was ~30 days from bankruptcy.

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Funding Startup Writing Invest 294

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Almost instantly, via the Internet or on their smartphone in the store, they can find the lowest price alternative or their favorite features, without waiting for push marketing or listening to your best sales person. Capitalize on the multiplier moment. Marty Zwilling.

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Customer Custom Startup Course 124

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

If anything, the OculusVR acquisition in 2014 signaled that Facebook saw VR as a social final frontier. Niko Bonatsos [ General Catalyst ] , Catherine Ulrich [ FirstMark Capital ] and Jacob Mullins [ Shasta Ventures ]. Early Bird tickets are still on sale for one more week. Reality Checks. Student tickets are just $45.

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UCLA Startup Snapchat Los Angeles 185

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

. “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” __. I’m not saying don’t hire sales staff or market your products aggressively. We live in heady times.

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Startup Marketing Customer Custom 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. Availability of Capital. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The firm said it will not receive any proceeds from the sale by the selling stockholders. ServiceNow went public in June, pricing at $18.00 The firm's major stockhoders are JMI Equity (44.64% ownership) and Sequoia Capital (19.68%). per share; the firm is now trading around $30.65 per share on the NYSE as NOW.

San Diego 138

San Diego Equity Pricing Sales 138

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. The reverse merger process itself doesn’t raise any capital. Marty Zwilling.

Summary 121

Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 121

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

Costa Mesa-based Semicoa Corporation , a supplier of military and high reliability components, announced Monday that it has relaunched the firm with backing from private equity firm Vance Street Capital, which is based in Los Angeles. Department of Justice, which triggered the sale of Semicoa to Vance Street Capital.

Equity 100

Equity Venture Capital Los Angeles Pricing 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

Although this is a somewhat unusual real estate transaction, it reflects a surprisingly common scenario in the world of mergers and acquisitions, with one important distinction. My House Is Not For Sale. Even the eccentric King of Pop communicated the price he was willing to pay. What is that price?”.

Company 160

Company Companies Pricing Santa Barbara 160

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Fair recently raised $16M in a seed funding round, from Javelin Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Foundation Capital, Sherpa Capital, Moonshots Capital, and others. All of the cars in the Fair app are pre-owned, but you can shop for any car for sale at any dealership. What is Fair all about?

Startup 124

Startup Truecar Pricing Entrepreneur 124

socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2012

For our Insights and Opinions section today, Megan Lisa Jones , an investment banking vet, comments on the travails of Facebook, and its stock price and life as a public company. Friday, down around 40 percent from its IPO price of not many weeks ago. It shouldnt be. Still, the stock closed at $21.81

Pricing 124

Pricing Report Google Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

500k had come through the last acquisition. For some reason the industry of bankers who try to buy or sell businesses work in what is called the “M&A (mergers & acquisitions) Industry.&# I’ve never understood this. There’s really no such thing as a merger – only acquisitions. million uniques.

Technical Review 276

Technical Review Startup Press Pricing 276

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

From my perspective, projecting financial returns is part of the homework every business person needs to do in sizing customer opportunity, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value, before expending their own resources in a highly risky venture. Project unit-volume and price levels. Quantify overhead and growth costs.

Pricing 57

Pricing Startup Entrepreneur Invest 57

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The COGS (costs of goods sold) tells me about how big your customer acquisition costs will be. portfolios.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Jackson said, “We’re using the proceeds from our financing round to invest in our technology, build new features, and increase sales and support.”. Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors. Over $3M Raised. million in the Series A round.

Draper 68

Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. The startup was so nascent that the sale would have been considered a short-term gain for tax purposes, which would have significantly reduced the Founders’ proceeds, making their small fortune even smaller.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked also netted in new customers such as Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and Equity Partners, NextView Ventures and crowd-funding service AI Verified which will take advantage of its iPad compatibility, bulk uploading, and reporting tools. According to Eric M. The innovation is in line with the industry trends.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. The problem is that stakeholders, like marketing and sales, don’t know what the latest version of the roadmap is.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2015

Almost instantly, via the Internet or on their smartphone in the store, they can find the lowest price alternative or their favorite features, without waiting for push marketing or listening to your best sales person. Capitalize on the multiplier moment. Marty Zwilling.

Customer 101

Customer Custom Startup Course 101

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Cloud Capital--has managed to coax those equipment rental yards into the digital age, and how the company has tackled other challenges in focusing its business. Really, we're the sales and marketing arm of those companies. Cloud Capital. Those need to be in place before applying capital. BigRentz is based in Irvine.

Startup 174

Startup Metrics Customer Custom 174

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. The startup was so nascent that the sale would have been considered a short-term gain for tax purposes, which would have significantly reduced the Founders’ proceeds, making their small fortune even smaller.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

OneRoof--which is backed by Black Coral Capital and others--has been supplying solar leases, financing and installing solar panels to residences to the market. Installing solar is a costly proposition to homeowners--what makes that investment appealing to capital providers? There''s always more demand than capital.

Equity 234

Equity Invest Marketing Product 234

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

The way we get compensated, is we receive a percent of net sales that flow through the website. If you look at the Internet Retailer Top 1000, which is a list that tracks e-commerce sites by sales volume, you''ll see that Amazon is number #1, and number 1000 does a few million in sales online. Our clients like that a lot.

Commerce 203

Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. The reverse merger process itself doesn’t raise any capital. Marty Zwilling.

Summary 79

Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 79