IBH Acquires Uprise
socalTECH
MARCH 30, 2021
Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to Uprise, Uprise provides its health services through self-guided modules, live coaching, and in-person therapy.
Your board should protect you!
Berkonomics
MARCH 28, 2024
They write in their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Even venture capitalists who sit on boards where they have significant investments often forget this point.
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Selling your business? Find the emotional buyer
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
The object of a financial purchase is to negotiate a bargain, capable of payoff through operating profits or growth over time, or even of immediate profit from arbitrage – knowing of a purchaser that is willing to pay more for your company if repackaged, or even with no changes at all. This rare buyer needs your company.
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Seismic Scores $170M, Now Worth $3 Billion
socalTECH
AUGUST 16, 2021
San Diego-based sales and marketing software developer Seismic has raised $170M in a Series G funding round, the company said this morning, and is now valued at $3 billion. Rowe Price, according to the company. Financial details of that acquisition were not announced. Seismic has now raised $440M in total funding.
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ServiceTitan Acquires Pointman
socalTECH
MAY 27, 2020
Los Angeles-based ServiceTitan , which develops a cloud-based software platform used by residential and commercial service contractors to manage their businesses, has acquired Pointman , a New York-based company that develops software for contractors. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.
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Kajabi Collects Massive $550M Round
socalTECH
MAY 4, 2021
Irvine-based e-commerce software developer Kajabi said this morning that it has raised a massive, $550M funding round, which values the company at over $2 billion. The company said the round was led by Tiger Global Management and included TPG, Tidemark, Owl Rock Capital and Meritech Capital, along with existing investor Spectrum Equity.
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Need investment capital?
Berkonomics
AUGUST 17, 2023
Preparing for the game… If you have been following our recent insights, you’ll be up to speed knowing that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more.
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Tot Squad's Baby Gear Cleaning Service Acquired By BabyQuip
socalTECH
APRIL 1, 2020
Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Los Angeles-based TotSquad , which operates a marketplace that connects new parents with various services, has sold its baby gear cleaning services to San Francisco-based BabyQuip. READ MORE>>.
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10 Keys To Real Innovation In Your Next New Business
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 21, 2023
In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Training and coaching. Ownership.
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Netflix Steals Back HR Exec From Scopely
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OCTOBER 27, 2017
Netflix said on Thursday that it has named Jessica Neal as Chief Talent Officer of the company, to head up the company's group responsible for culture, human resources, recruiting, and coaching its team, according to the company. Neal had been Chief People Officer at Scopely in Los Angeles until earlier this year.
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WePlay Acquired By TeamSnap
socalTECH
MAY 21, 2013
Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. TeamSnap said it has acquired Weplay''s customers, technology, and online coaching resources and extensive video content as part of the buy. The company said that WePlay had 2.25 The company said that WePlay had 2.25 million customers. million customers. READ MORE>>.
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TakeLessons Buys Betterfly
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. TakeLessons helps connect people with instructors across a wide range of areas, ranging from music, academics, and the arts--where the company started--to fitness, yoga, crafts, business and life coaching, and much more. READ MORE>>.
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8 Sure Signs That Your Leadership Style Needs Tuning
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
Investments and acquisitions fail. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. Difficulties retaining key employees.
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Maverick Angels Merging Members Into Tech Coast Angels, Say Members
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
The move has not yet been announced by either group--however, Maverick Angels has been advertising an event about the "launch of our new company" in March, implying some big changes for the angel group. In recent years, the Maverick Angels had mostly been focused on running coaching programs and seminars for entrepreneurs. READ MORE>>.
10 Steps To A New Venture That Can Change The World
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 25, 2020
In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Training and coaching. Ownership.
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10 Reasons To Start A Company In An Economic Downturn
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 24, 2011
As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company. If there was ever a time to start a company, this is it.”. Determining the perfect moment to enter the startup market, whether by creating a company or joining an ongoing venture, is akin to timing the financial markets. “The
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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 14, 2022
The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Leadership brand development. Marty Zwilling.
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129 TakeLessons CEO Discusses Chromatik Buyout, Why it’s a Good Fit
Xconomy
APRIL 17, 2017
The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million. TakeLessons also acquired Chicago-based Betterfly, which offered online vocational classes, DIY projects, and self-improvement courses like public speaking and personal life coaching.
8 Clues That You Need More Focus On Human Leadership
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 21, 2019
Investments and acquisitions fail. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. Difficulties retaining key employees.
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Where is the best source of early stage investment?
Berkonomics
JUNE 29, 2017
If you have been following our recent insights, you’ll be up to speed knowing that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more.
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iChange Acquired By Herbalife
socalTECH
APRIL 22, 2011
iChange, which was headed by Stu MacFarlane, will be used by Herbalife's independent distributors to provide wellness coaching to clients. Momentum Ventures became involved with iChange in 2009 as an advisor, and made an investment at the beginning of 2010 in the company and placed MacFarlane in the CEO role.
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10 Goodwill Elements To Raise Your Business Valuation
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 15, 2020
The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Leadership brand development. Marty Zwilling.
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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Happy customers quickly become your biggest advocates, today reaching far beyond friends and family, and they make traditional marketing efforts pale in comparison for growth, loyalty, and new customer acquisition costs. A popular set of metrics for customer views is the New Promoter System ( NPS ), available from Bain & Company.
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10 Keys To Delivering Innovation As An Entrepreneur
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 18, 2018
In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Training and coaching. Ownership.
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There are three kinds of business buyers.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
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. Email readers, continue here.] There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer.
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How Great Entrepreneurs Spell Continuous Innovation
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 12, 2015
In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Training and coaching. Ownership.
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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US. Let me not bury the lede.
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359 How To Maximize Your Value At A Startup: Your Greatest Ability Is Often Your Availability
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
His willingness to add value wherever his coach needed him most, not only helped his teams win three consecutive World Championships, but it also allowed Bert to extend his career by making himself Indispensible. Thus, it is not uncommon for someone to be responsible for tasks that would be addressed by several people at a Big Dumb Company.
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222 10 Principles For Sustainable Innovation In Business
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 14, 2016
In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Training and coaching. Ownership.
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8 Startup Situations Challenge Founder People Skills
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 15, 2015
Investments and acquisitions fail. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. Difficulties retaining key employees.
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103 CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 30, 2012
For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation. 25 Years of Writing Code.
Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 5, 2010
Jason & Tyler brought forward 5 high quality companies and super high quality ones rose to the top and quickly got funded. There wasn’t a bad company tonight but I had a clear favorite. I suppose I should keep it to myself but I guess Jason will be helping to hype up all the companies anyways. Ambitious goals.
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 4, 2018
Investments and acquisitions fail. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. Difficulties retaining key employees.
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Entrepreneur Leadership Today Demands A Human Focus
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 5, 2014
Investments and acquisitions fail. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members. Top team members rarely quit the company. Difficulties retaining key employees.
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92 Be Careful About Being a Meddling Startup CEO
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
recently wrote a post talking about how some VCs meddle in operating company decisions or some executive teams are too reliant on VCs to jump in and make hard calls for them. In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. ” Of course I agree with this.
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10 Leadership Elements That Maximize Business Value
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Leadership brand development. Marty Zwilling.
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100 Board members must protect the coporation before themselves.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Even venture capitalists who sit on boards where they have significant investments often forget this point.
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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 25, 2013
You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies. Let’s look at some great companies. Is it right that VCs had no involvement in persuading Sheryl Sandberg to join the fledgling company? And Coach Campbell. So I can make a huge difference in the company’s trajectory.
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374 Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 7, 2013
To make it better for entrepreneurs to get the maximum attention and funding they need Stained Glass Labs has also partnered with Exitround , the world’s first marketplace for startups to discreetly get funding partners and acquisition opportunities. Partnership to give firms bigger business opportunities.
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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 18, 2012
He shut down his company gracefully and even thought it must have felt like a crap sandwich doing so I’ll bet his reputation is still solid with his backers. Early on in my first company I had an employee ask if it was a good time to buy a home. But you realize that you can be more helpful as a coach. Many are well known.
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420 5 Steps To A Compelling Story For Business Proposals
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 18, 2017
If you are proposing a merger or acquisition, or simply seeking an investor for your business, the process is the same. For example, if I don’t know you, and you didn’t sell your last company for $800 million, your story needs to educate me on why anyone would bet on you to succeed, and how you would reward me for success.
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58 Raise cash from trusted, close resources first.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
This insight follows closely the conclusions from the previous declaration, that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more.
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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 3, 2016
Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.
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150 Every Dollar Spent At A Startup Should Yield A Return
InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
Frugality was missing-in-action at many bubble-era Dot Bomb companies. In many cases, these companies were led by untested and unproven entrepreneurs who did not understand the importance of frugality. Fortunately, most people with this dysfunctional spending gene work at Big Dumb Companies and government agencies.
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