TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Mogul Millennial — this Dallas-based company is a digital media platform for black entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. Since launching the platform in 2018, startups from the Snap accelerator have gone on to acquisition (like Stop, Breathe, and Think, which was bought by Meredith Corp.) Hardworkers — a Cambridge, Mass.-based

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2016

(www.science-inc.com), the startup �studio� led by former MySpace CEO and technology veteran Mike Jones , just saw its third acquisition out of its portfolio this year�the acquisition of FameBit by Google/Youtube. What made these three companies successful acquisitions out of all your companies? Like I said, most companies fail.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Los Angeles-based Telesign, which is headed by serial entrepreneur Steve Jillings, said that the acquisition will help it improve its fraud prevention services. Telesign , the provider of Internet security and authentication services and tools, said today that it has acquired global SMS provider Routo Telecommunications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is talking about the fact that there are over 2,000 billionaires in the world today, and how their innovative idea could make them one of the next ones. Becoming an entrepreneur is actually a commitment to a new lifestyle, certainly very exciting, but also facing many unknowns and risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

Being called a lifestyle entrepreneur should be a point of pride, not an insult. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 13, 2017

coming up, the future’s so bright entrepreneurs might want to wear… Spectacles. Last year saw the city reap windfall exits from the acquisition of companies like Dollar Shave Club, and has a number of promising e-commerce companies… Read More.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Successful entrepreneurs and successful companies never stop re-inventing themselves.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Given TimeHop’s failed experiment, I was especially intrigued when I learned that a team of a dozen remote entrepreneurs hack the typical corporate structure and creates a company that generated nearly $100 million in revenue. Dan Engel, Co-Founder and former CEO of FastSpring, is a highly successful serial entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Successful entrepreneurs and successful companies never stop re-inventing themselves.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Is your cell phone the secret to fixing e-commerce''s problem with abandoned shopping carts? We spoke with CEO and founder Jack Bicer --just back from DEMO--to learn more about the app and why he thinks the company has the solution to e-commerce shopping cart abandonment. So this is for e-commerce sites, not in person purchases?

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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. Michael Greenberg: Yes.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

We have just lived through the greatest era of fake entrepreneurs. It was a second-wave dot-com boom that lasted five to six years, when money was so readily available ( many have referred to it as the Age of the Unicorns ) that it felt like anybody could get in on the “become-an-entrepreneur” game. It’s an acqui-hire. Build a company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2018

The reason why, is we want to let you fall in love with those products, and continue to let you buy them on our e-commerce site as well, and also discover all of the product line for those brands. Justine Lassoff: I have a background in e-commerce, and we're both experienced entrepreneurs. What's your background?

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

We sat down with Jamie�who has been part of LA's technology industry, either as an investor or advisor since its very early days--to get his perspective on where we are today, especially as it relates to all of the companies he's worked with over the years on a more global stage and in Silicon Valley, and his advice to entrepreneurs.

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Tech.Co

MAY 30, 2017

What advice helped shape who you are as an entrepreneur today? It was only after speaking with a few other entrepreneurs that I realized I was stunting my own business growth. What’s your best financial-related tip for early-stage entrepreneurs? This is especially true if you are in e-commerce. Know your numbers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. With customer acquisition costs (CAC) rising significantly across most products, one company experimented with a few low-cost initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

Being called a lifestyle entrepreneur should be a point of pride, not an insult. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Successful entrepreneurs and successful companies never stop re-inventing themselves.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Jody--an experienced entrepreneur who was most recently co-founder of a firm he sold to the Virgin Group, and has been involved with such firms as Lycos, Buydirect.com, and Xoom--told us the story of EcoMom, plus how he connected with McClure on the investment. Jody Sherman: I've been an entrepreneur since I got out of the military.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2015

We'll do about eight to ten deals a year, which will enable our four full time managing directors to have the time to work with our entrepreneurs, and help them hit milestones and attract follow-on funding. But, mostly, from our point of view, it's been the quality of the entrepreneurs we've been fortunate to back along the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Successful entrepreneurs and successful companies never stop re-inventing themselves. Marty Zwilling.

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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” __. In the ecommerce arena I see some great companies spending heavily on customer acquisition. __. faux·men·tum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Successful entrepreneurs and successful companies never stop re-inventing themselves.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

How about mergers and acquisitions? About two years ago, we spent a lot of time talking about the SoCal community, trying to figure out if it''s vibrant enough, if the ecosystem is strong enough, and if there were enough successful entrepreneurs who had built and exited companies, so we''d have the genetic stock in our ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We sat down with Scott Morrow President of Curatemedia, to hear more about the firm's strategy and the thinking behind the acquisition and new investment in the firm. For additional verticals, we'll expand that through additional acquisition or through organic sites launched internally. What's the strategy behind acquisitions?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The Bitcoinference served as day 1 of 2 for 500 Startups’ “Commercism” series, with an official agenda that covered industry happenings, social dynamics, and a look into the investment environment. Dan, now named as Product Manager for the Blockchain acquired Zeroblock apps, tells the audience about life after acquisition.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

5) Twitter’s recent $40M acquisition of TweetDeck is an interesting development. TweetDeck is a very natural acquisition, it certainly brings talent that knows how to build Twitter applications. What do you think the social media ecosystem will look like in three years and what role will a fully matured Ad.ly

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

For example, if you watch the TV show “Shark Tank,” you will remember several entrepreneurs with specialty products doing well online who want money to move into big box retail. The most common channels in use today include e-commerce, direct to customer, wholesale to dealers, and value-added resellers.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion. will be community, content, and commerce--but not just any commerce, but frictionless commerce, and make that user experience as if it's real life. But, how do you bridge the digital world of Instagram with the real, physical world?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics. Customer Acquisition Cost / Cost Per Acquisition . The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. Paid Product Metrics.

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Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics. Customer Acquisition Cost / Cost Per Acquisition . The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. Paid Product Metrics.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

After the event, we caught up, Parker Thompson , Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) charged with leading Batch 8. Shippo is changing the game for e-commerce shipping. They’re going to be huge for private e-commerce retailers. The crowd of investors were very supportive, with lots of laughs and cheers. A Huge Thank You!

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

where if you're doing anything with mobile commerce in the U.S. Rahul Sonnad: I think what we've realized, is that there are lots of people who want to do commerce on mobile phones. The other thing in Ireland, is both the consumers and merchant base is fairly sophisticated. Unlike the U.S., the situation is very different.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Every so often--particularly in Southern California--you run into a serial entrepreneur, with multiple successes and great track record-- yet, who very few people are aware of. Jeff Zwelling: Today, we have lots of e-commerce and online subscription customers. There are lots of e-commerce companies.

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