TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

GrubMarket , which provides software and services that help link up and manage relationships between food suppliers and their customers — which can include wholesalers and other distributors, markets and supermarkets, delivery startups, restaurants, and consumers — has picked up $120 million in a Series E round of funding. .”

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2018

acquisition deal. Adecco Group said it would acquired General Assembly to help complement its existing solutions, plus to position it in the fast growing "up-/re-skilling" segment of the market. Adecco said that General Assembly had 2017 revenues of approximately $100M.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The tools that it has built include Voyage, its proprietary operating system to manage properties; a concierge app to help its guests with services before, during and after stays; its front-end booking platform; and a recently launched real estate platform. But to be clear, it does not own properties itself.).

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Platform Invest Los Angeles Funding 139

Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. TakeLessons also acquired Chicago-based Betterfly, which offered online vocational classes, DIY projects, and self-improvement courses like public speaking and personal life coaching.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

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. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs?

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Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. Existing customers have low acquisition costs, addressing the “D” in the equation. This is considered to be the producer-oriented model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

She speaks from years of experience mentoring and facilitating independent contractors and helping large companies, since well before the term “gig economy” was even coined. 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

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

Ultimately, it will help them find a career, and help the world. I think if we, as Belkin, can find a way to help the communities where we are, where we are living, by helping students grow and helping them with the challenges they face, that's a natural thing with who we are and who we've become over the past 39 or so years.

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Belkin Playa Del Rey El Segundo Education 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started. Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote. (If Have you worked with a talented individual or agency who helped you find and keep more users?

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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. That's where I saw the problem we are solving at Retina.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. What is it, really? Get Physical!

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2010

as its independent financial advisor, to help the firm consider a buyout proposal from Great Hill Partners III, LP. Incorporated has filed a "purported" class action complaint in Delaware claiming the company and Great Hill have breached their fiduciary duties, and is looking to enjoin the consummation of Great Hill's offer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.” Natural mentors – a desire to help. We both wanted to continue to build a world-class staff at GRP from which to build future leaders in either tech startups or in our investment firm. Community builders.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The coworking company has announced two meaningful education initiatives that could help people get a leg up in the tech community. Flatiron School – The Acquisition. They plan to integrate their educational model into their own and provide classes in their 170 coworking spaces around the world.

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Education Acquisition Class Blogging 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started. Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. Obviously, Prism is a great example.

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Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

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Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

DatAllegro was one of the first companies in what is now the "big data" industry, and helped to pioneer the entire segment. We are really set up to solve those problems, and deliver the hard core, enterprise class tools and applications that people need, in order for big data to go mainstream. he's been spinning out of his incubator.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This is class four for Launchpad LA. Tuition.io, dubbed Mint.com for student loans, has helped students from over 130 universities manage over $100 million in debt, which represents over 10,000 student loans. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. .

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

That is, once you invest in a company, you''re a shareholder, and you help that company for the course of its life. Although we will do roughly one class a year, that''s 10 or so companies under the accelerator, seed stage model -- but we don''t really limit to three months in-and-out. There''s many forms of data.

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Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2010

Sam Hayes: I don't have a strong number, but I believe there's been Quinstreet, Tesla, Fabrinet, Green Dot, Motricity, Investnet, and Click Technologies, plus some acquisition like Mint by Intuit. My role, before I was at SharesPost, was at Sun Microsystems, where I was involved in mergers and acquisition and software investments.

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Acquisition Class Startup Marketing 154

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2012

500 Startups add that successful startups don’t just need great coders and designers but require scalable and cost-effective customer acquisition which they help startups at. Chewse now joins the 500 current class commencing today, November 31 with an aim to even be a better marketplace for groups to easily order great food.

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Startup Seed Funding West Los Angeles Class 68

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Leverage: with teachers not having to have in-person classes you can build a more cost-effective model and teaching can be targeted more to your individual needs. And of course the big question is whether Salesforce.com can out innovate these startups (especially after their acquisition of InStranet ). Expect great things from Assistly.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here. Pricing rules: 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 How about multiple classes of stock? a share, then options must be priced at that amount.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. Daniel Altman: We recently were in the fall class of MuckerLab. We spoke with Daniel Altman, the CEO of the company, to learn more.

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Content News Startup Research 230

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

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

CapLinked’s online platform helps companies manage and close complex business transactions such as asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions. The partnership will deliver high class military-grade security options for firms dealing in sensitive business and financial transactions in the cloud. Series A Round.

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Yammer Journal Networking Software 72

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

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started. Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages.

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Startup Ideas Equity Invest 73

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc., Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

They know you and your brand, so this should minimize your customer acquisition cost for the new product. These could be support related, or education related, or a package of product and services for a new class of customers. Add services that are complementary to your product. Or add products that are complementary to your services.

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Startup Customer Custom Entrepreneur 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

She speaks from years of experience mentoring and facilitating independent contractors and helping large companies, since well before the term “gig economy” was even coined. 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

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

The incubator also believes game developers are suited for this challenge because of their experience in managing a user acquisition funnel for user growth, often called “growth hacking”. At 9+ entrepreneurs can expect a comprehensive platform to help them become founder-CEOs. Growth hackers.

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Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Anything requiring lead generation and/or customer acquisition I call Matt Coffin. Having the right angels in a round that is cheap won’t help you succeed if your product or strategy sucks.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

We help companies reward their employees with perks. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class. We quintupled our sales per sales person and reduced our acquisition costs by 80% during that (boot camp) period.”. 6) Paige, why does the world need BetterWorks? . “We 100% of the folks (who survived the boot camps) are still here.

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