Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted.

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Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The next thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. If you hire truly talented people you end up definitionally with a lot of competitive peers who will inevitably jockey for resources and control. Marketing of course often feels the opposite.

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Entrepreneur CTO Hire Startup Sales 385

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted.

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Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

Last year was quite a year for IPOs, largely influenced by the significant rise in the number of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) who went public, despite almost uniformly negative returns. Public companies of any size must comply immediately with the full reporting requirements of the SEC.

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Startup Report IBM IBM 98

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2017

Simi Valley-based Qualstar , the developer of data storage and high efficiency power supplies, says it continues to look at "strategic options" for the business, as it reported yet another quarter of declining revenues. The company reported a net loss of $1.2 According to Qualstar, it had a loss of $0.4 million on revenues of $2.2M

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Layoffs .Net Report Competition 113

Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

Others worry that we will latch onto individual line items within financial data and engage in inquisitions regarding telephone bills, marketing costs and other tactical line items in detailed financial statements. This could include the need for audited financials, monthly financial and narrative reporting and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

According to TheStreet , US IPO market results in Q2 2020 posted a strong bounce-back from Q1 with 58 IPOs, after a slow start due to the Covid19 pandemic. You better have lined up a major international expansion, some major acquisition candidates, or a wealth of unfilled orders. Market volatility usually hits public companies first.

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Startup Technical Review Acquisition Study 127

Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

Others worry that investors will latch onto individual line items within financial data and engage in inquisitions regarding telephone bills, marketing costs and other tactical line items in detailed financial statements. These could include the need for audited financials, monthly financial and narrative reporting and more.

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Class Report Competition .Net 202

Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. But there is one overwhelming method of appraising the effectiveness of a business leader.

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Resource Satisfaction Metrics Course 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2021

Contrary to popular belief, according to a report by A. Airlines, for example, have difficulty scaling up through mergers and acquisitions (M&As), but they can spin off their maintenance businesses and let the spin-off do the M&A in its own field. They may not be so constrained by monopoly fears and Sarbanes-Oxley controls.

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Company Companies Startup Examples 125

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In short, the VC industry is very sharp-elbowed amongst some very competitive people who are used to winning and most deals don’t have enough space to share investment rounds so people were naturally pretty quick to judge A16Z. Do they win competitive deals? to “Jeez — they sure are hiring a ton of staff. Can that really work?”

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Venture Capital Invest Funding Competition 264

socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2012

Energy Innovations reportedly has been looking for a buyer since earlier this year for the business, which developed concentrating solar photovoltaic modules, aimed at the commercial rooftop market. Energy Innovations--which had entered the solar market late--was backed by Idealab and Mohr Davidow Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Idealab High Tech Pasadena 145

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. Brett Rossman: ConsumerTrack is a performance-based, online marketing company. What is ConsumerTrack all about?

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Irvine-based Microsemi is reporting this afternoon that it has settled a civil lawsuit against the firm by the U.S. The DOJ had sued Microsemi in December, after the July acquisition of the assets of Semicoa, a provider of semiconductors for the military and commercial market.

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Competition Pricing Acquisition Report 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Focusing on the key elements that larger brands examine when they consider an acquisition is crucial for obtaining the best price and for establishing a corporate brand that distinguishes itself from its competitors as a valuable asset. As reported by Reuters in the article, Bain to buy Blue Coat for about $2.4 When to Sell.

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Startup Acquisition Outsource Development Outsource 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Middle Market Investment Banking. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2018

The market for recent IPOs also remains extremely volatile, and as a result many of them are currently trading below their opening price. Concerns over valuations being reset to a new normal, and a soft exit market, are seen as key drivers. Market volatility usually hits public companies first.

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Acquisition Study Marketing Startup 51

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Last year at this time I spoke at VidCon and gave this presentation in which I said YouTube was “the Walmart of Online Video” but I also commented that I felt YouTube was vulnerable to competition because their rev share to MCNs wasn’t high enough to allow MCNs to build a profitable business inside of YouTube.

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Invest Content Media Networking 291

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly. Measurements set on internal objectives, rather than market traction. Corporate entities operate under strict competitive and accounting rules.

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IBM IBM Entrepreneur Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2014

IPO market showed more activity than any other first quarter since 2000, with 64 companies raising $10.6 You better have lined up a major international expansion, some major acquisition candidates, or a wealth of unfilled orders. In addition, officers may face liability for misrepresentations or speaking out in public and SEC reports.

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Startup Entrepreneur Activity Acquisition 94

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

Concerns over valuations being reset to a new normal, and a soft exit market, are seen as key drivers. You better have lined up a major international expansion, some major acquisition candidates, or a wealth of unfilled orders. In addition, officers may face liability for misrepresentations or speaking out in public and SEC reports.

Company 55

Company Companies Acquisition Entrepreneur 55

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

There are more than 10,000 people in Japan, and they're the third largest site behind Amazon and eBay, doing over 15 billion, with a 14 billon market cap in Japan. At the time of the acquisition, we had 150 employees. Is Amazon's marketplace the largest competition for what you're doing? There is more reporting, for sure.

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Sites Commerce Pricing Product 210

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

However, Savored says it will continue to serve diners and restaurants independently even with the acquisition and is giving a free 30 day trial for new merchants. On the acquisition, Dan Roarty, VP of Groupon Now said, “Savored’s platform nicely complements Groupon’s efforts in yield management, an area we’ve pioneered with Groupon Now!

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Software Review Email Competition Acquisition 64

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Side Note : Upfront has hired Kerry Bennett as a member of our executive management team to run marketing – please follow her on Twitter here ].

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Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

For Customer Acquisition and Loyalty. Ed Braswell, CEO, edo says this is necessary as, “Payments and advertising are colliding; to stay competitive firms are searching for solutions to drive customer acquisition, loyalty and return on marketing investment.”. Which edo is helping them achieve. Shop, Win and Save Strategy.

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Advertising Media Networking Capital 64

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. Most companies have a roadmap describing what they’re planning to build, deliver or market. We have had to take sub-market salaries.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2014

Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition. According to a recent Dow Jones VentureSource report, the average time to liquidity of an equity investment in a startup is now about five years.

Equity 99

Equity Venture Capital Invest Pricing 99

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The alleged First Mover Advantage asserts that companies which are the first to exploit a new technology and/or market have an inherent advantage. In most instances, small companies do not have the financial wherewithal to bludgeon the competition and establish market share through brute force. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

Competition 164

Competition Education Technology Entrepreneur 164

Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Amongst several companies to report this week, the biggest news came from Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD ), whose hepatitis C drugs have become some of the top revenue producers in the industry. Some observers’ minds instantly jumped to business —Gilead needs to pick up the acquisition pace to find its next big thing.

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Startup Study News Report 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

And aside from having great market power (the main reason for Twitter to own the client and the customer) advertising is one of the primary reasons that I believe Twitter needs to own the client applications. And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company.

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Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Contrary to popular belief, according to a report by A. Airlines, for example, have difficulty scaling up through mergers and acquisitions (M&As), but they can spin off their maintenance businesses and let the spin-off do the M&A in its own field. They may not be so constrained by monopoly fears and Sarbanes-Oxley controls.

Startup 85

Startup Entrepreneur Examples Services 85

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition. According to a recent Dow Jones VentureSource report, the average time to liquidity of an equity investment in a startup is now about five years.

Startup 97

Startup Equity Entrepreneur Venture Capital 97

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Contrary to popular belief, according to a report by A. Airlines, for example, have difficulty scaling up through mergers and acquisitions (M&As), but they can spin off their maintenance businesses and let the spin-off do the M&A in its own field. They may not be so constrained by monopoly fears and Sarbanes-Oxley controls.

Startup 85

Startup Examples Services Competition 85