socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

For ThinkNear , it looks like the whole process paid off in less than two years, after the Los Angeles company went from the TechStars accelerator just last June, to a healthy acquisition by TeleNav earlier this month for $22.5M. Congrats on the acquisition! How did the acquisition come about?

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Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

They protect the company by overseeing the expenditure of company money for expansion, acquisitions, purchases of large assets, hiring of senior management and more. This could happen when a board votes to take in new money at terms that would be unfavorable to the class of investor represented by the board member.

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Resource Acquisition Class Help 156

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is excitement about the possibilities of real change and an infectious “naive optimism” about how everything is possible. Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. How profitable is my product or service?

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes. Lymber aggregates data about the real-time availability of fitness and wellness classes for its users, with about half that data coming from Mindbody, Hecht explained.

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San Diego Class Mobile Platform 75

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

So talk a little bit more about this effort to be a high school on your corporate campus? We care about consumer electronics, we care about consumer insights, we do a ton of engineering ourselves, and do most of the design of products ourselves. How did this all come about? That said, these things are always challenging.

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Belkin Playa Del Rey El Segundo Education 113

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.

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Startup Platform Software Los Angeles 249

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

Many solo entrepreneurs I know, who now work primarily from home, under-estimate their true costs, since they never had to worry about them as employees. Federal, state, and municipal governments are among the largest consumers of entrepreneur and freelance services, but client acquisition costs may be very high.

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Pricing Mentor Entrepreneur News 149

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Teaching kids as young as five-years-old about entrepreneurship is silly, right? And if you don’t think this kind of education is a good idea, you’ve probably never sat in a classroom for eight hours learning about fractions. Flatiron School – The Acquisition. Read more about coworking spaces on TechCo.

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Education Acquisition Class Blogging 70

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

I first met Greg about 4 years ago or so. 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. So I began talking to him about joining the fund. So we talked about his joining.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

He saw that the cost of acquisition for many, many different businesses were going through the roof, week after week. We saw that they were hitting the inflection point, where they were spending more than they were receiving from customer acquisition. If you think about it, that makes perfect sense. So where is the product now?

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Dollar Shave Club Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 113

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” __. But can sensible management team even do anything about it? __. faux·men·tum. fōˈmen(t)əm,fəˈmen(t)əm/. We live in heady times.

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Startup Marketing Customer Custom 150

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

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. Sometimes, there will be a conflict of interest between the people representing the various shareholder classes on a board.

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Class Coach Invest Sales 179

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. Get Physical!

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Product Course Customer Custom 296

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Now, Frost has set up shop buildling out a whole series of companies in the industry, and we caught up with him to learn more about the companies (Predixion Software, Cirro, Lineage, Kumo, etc.) I've been a serial entrepreneur for about 20-odd years, and I didn't want to sit at a big company. he's been spinning out of his incubator.

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Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2018

The advent of big fundraising rounds for startup chip innovators—a class shunned by most venture capital firms only a few years ago—seems to mark a turnaround in recent VC attitudes about semiconductor investments.

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Artificial Inteligence Venture Capital Class Capital 69

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. What can you tell us about MuteSix as an agency? Greg Gillman: We’ve been around for about nine years. For agencies that work with large brands, usually it’s more about impression buying versus performance buying.

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Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. We caught up with Bong to hear more about his new startup. But, I found out in reality, it's really tough to find classes or lessons, for a variety of issues. What is LifeCrowd?

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Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2010

It's been about a year since Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharepost.com) stepped into the market last year with a way for owners of privately held, venture backed companies to gain some liquidity, as well as diversify their holdings. Now that you've been operating awhile, what have you learned about the market for private companies?

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Acquisition Class Startup Marketing 154

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

An option plan should carve out an addition of about 15% of the “fully diluted” shares. How about the price per share? If there is only one class of stock, the same as the founders, and the appraisal of the single class of shares yields, say $2.00 Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here.

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Equity Class Pricing Sales 256

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

During the late 1800’s, American author Horatio Alger wrote 129 novels, most of which recount the deeds of impoverished young people who overcome their modest means to establish independent lives as self-sufficient, middle class citizens. To learn about Ms. The students are given several days to devise their plans.

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Santa Barbara Class Ideas Organization 191

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

5) When I interviewed people at my past startups, I rejected them if they asked me about our dental plan, as true entrepreneurs don’t care about such pedestrian benefits. 3) I’ve heard some great stories about your weekend sales “boot camps.” We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class. In the early days, do it yourself.

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Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

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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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Tell us a little bit about your background and the company? Daniel Altman: We recently were in the fall class of MuckerLab. It sounds like you're really about the technology, not the content? It's not about us creating content, yet. Daniel Altman: For us, it's about user acquisition, and working on the technology.

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Content News Startup Research 230

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

We caught up with CEO Ian Miller to learn about the company and its NoSQL database, and its roots here in applications built for companies like Yahoo and CBS. I moved to the states with my first acquisition. All of the companies I''ve been involved with have been about scale and performance. What exactly is FatCloud?

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Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

We thought we''d catch up with Erik on what he''s learned about this market, advice he''d give to companies hoping to get into an accelerator, and what gets a company funding. Now that you''ve been through this for a couple of years, what''s the biggest thing you''ve learned about how to make an accelerator work?

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Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Especially fun when you get him telling stories about his pilot experiences. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day. Actually, I’ve done this!

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

If your goal is a large national corporation with more than 100 investors, and multiple classes of stock, you might prefer a C-Corp or S-Corp. The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors. Quantify the market opportunity in business terms.

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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Shaan Sethi to hear more about the startup, as well as Shaan's journey from investment banking to running an apparel startup. There were lots of things we did around investment and acquisitions. It was a deliberate approach, in all honestly, about raising and using capital. What is Jaanuu?

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In this #StartupsEverywhere , series, we talked with Aaron Slodov, Jennifer Stapleton, and Steve McHale, leaders in the Cleveland startup ecosystem about why there's more of a draw to downtown. One of Cleveland's most unique assets is our world-class health system, which includes the Cleveland Clinic.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. It’s been many years since I’ve properly cut code and my former teammates love to tease me and talk about my mean days of COBOL, DB2 and CICS. What about strategy?

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

Many solo entrepreneurs I know, who now work primarily from home, under-estimate their true costs, since they never had to worry about them as employees. Federal, state, and municipal governments are among the largest consumers of entrepreneur and freelance services, but client acquisition costs may be very high.

Pricing 68

Pricing Entrepreneur Mentor News 68

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them. Is there a downside to Accountability?

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. RightScale came about way fast and before I felt ready. It’s contagious!”.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Strategic buyers look for managerial talent, intellectual property, geographic expansion, an extension into adjacent markets – and more – that will be achieved with the acquisition of your company. There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer.

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Pricing Sales IBM IBM 600

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Combine this significant pool of sophisticated Angel capital and expertise with UC Santa Barbara’s world-class entrepreneurial program and throw in a critical mass of entrepreneurs bold enough to build businesses around their passions, it’s understandable how a modest-sized community has produced so many successful tech startups.

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Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2010

We sat down with Sumant Mandal , Managing Director at Clearstone, and who has been closely involved with a number of those exits, to get some more color on what has driven those exits, and about his outlook on the venture market. Sumant Mandal: No, though I think it's only been delayed by about a year, not more than that.

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