SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Liquid Death has attracted nearly $2 million in funding from angel investors like Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Bev , a canned wine business that recently raised $7 million in seed funding from Founders Fund, thinks marketing in the alcohol industry is the problem. On to other news. IPO Corner.

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Startup Venture Capital Newsletter Tips 223

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. As part of the funding, Livefyre said it will be opening up a new San Diego office, and all of Realtidbits'' team will join the company as part of its product, engineering, and design teams. realtidbits livefyre merger acquisition social commenting software'

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Dollar Shave Club San Diego Acquisition Software 153

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2015

Carpinteria-based lynda.com , which is led by Eric Robison, has raised a huge, $186M funding round, led by TPG. The company said it will use the new funding for accelerating acquisitions, growth, and new content intiatives. As part of the funding, TPG''s David Trujillo will join the company''s board of directors.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. A negative customer acquisition cost! Sometimes I make a blog entry.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2011

Intel announced the acquisition this morning, but did not disclose financial terms of the acquisition. Fulcrum Microsystems was venture backed by Granite Ventures, Infinity Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Palomar Ventures, and others; the firm had raised somewhere over $114M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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Palomar Calabasas Acquisition Design 150

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2013

San Diego-based Proximal Data , which develops serve-side caching software for accelerating I/O access to virtualized machines, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a Series B round of funding. The funding came from Divergent Ventures, along with existing investors Avalon Ventures. The firm is led by Rory Bolt. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While free money may sound too good to be true, there are hundreds of grants available to small businesses in 2024 designed to make financing more accessible to business owners. Read on to find a financing option that suits you, whatever your business's specialism, needs, and financial profile, or jump to a specific funding type below.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Competition 193

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

North Hills, California-based Munchkin , a designer and manufacturer of infant and toddler products and toys, has raised $45M in a minority investment from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2012

This workshop will teach you the essentials of how to design a successful business model for your technology innovation. As a result, most new technologies fail to realize their commercial potential.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

How is the company funded? We've used that funding to product our app, which is based on React Native, which allows us to simultaneously develop and release on both iOS and Android. We've used that funding to product our app, which is based on React Native, which allows us to simultaneously develop and release on both iOS and Android.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Cohua said it would pay $15M in cash for Kita, funded out of its cash reserves and through assumption of operating debt of $2.6M Kita designs, manufactures and sells spring probe contacts used in final test contactors, probe cards, PCB test boards and connectors. net of cash acquired.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Oculus has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into funding VR content, and while the headset market is still small, developers have built plenty of games and experiences. If anything, the OculusVR acquisition in 2014 signaled that Facebook saw VR as a social final frontier. UCLA, Los Angeles // October 18. See full agenda here.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. During this time, Taylor began to read about Facebook’s Oculus acquisition and wondered what that technology could bring to the world. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Rob Salvagno, who heads Cisco’s mergers and acquisitions and venture investment team, said in prepared remarks that Luxtera’s “technology, design, and manufacturing innovation” improves data processing performance and scale while also lowering costs. David Goeckeler, executive vice president and.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. The company recently raised a $750,000 seed round of funding. They don''t have coupons that work on that given day, the layout and design looks really spammy, and it feels spammy.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. I didn't have any funding. I was a painter then, and I started selling all of my paintings to fund RecycledBride.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Venture backers : Anthem Ventures, the Mailroom Fund, Rincon Venture Partners. Cocodot is creating a fashionable, user friendly online invitations site, which is applying high design--and celebrity connections--to allow users to send invitations, thank you notes, and other online invitations to friends. www.sodahead.com). Let us know!

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The company’s model changed around when the pandemic hit, which, accompanied with improved scooter designs that promise to last longer and so improve depreciation results, have provided a positive boost. So what?

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News Los Angeles Examples Pricing 148

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2013

Things look to be going further downhill over at Anaheim-based Fisker Automotive today, as reports that co-founder (and namesake) Henrik Fisker has resigned from the designer of plug-in hybrid automobiles.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Such service providers as web designers, public relations firms, even venture banks granting loans, often offer higher value services for a lesser amount of cash and some amount of stock options or warrants (written promises to sell stock at a set price for a future period in time). Such an analysis is in the service of all shareholders.

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Web Design Pricing Startup Acquisition 153

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

On the flip side, we attract those candidates, based on their affinity group, such as Blacks in Tech, Latinos In UI and UX design, women enggineers, and other affinity groups that attract talent, making them accesible to companies that are looking to hire for diversity. How are you funded? Those communities already exist.

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Technical Review Startup Platform Resource 140

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. Nice sweep! He was seeking $500k.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Brilliant web and iPhone app design. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Technology. Advertisers.

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

So I began talking to him about joining the fund. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub. Community builders. Open & transparent. Approachable. He was stubborn.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

What age is the service designed for? We''re really taking that to heart with Thrively, going out and exploring a range of different kinds of business relationships, marketing approaches, customer acquisition techniques, which we''re really excited about. What''s the funding status of your company--how are you funded?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. total funding $1.7

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

and raised $20M in new funding. According to Staccato, the funding came from Allegis Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, Bay Partners, Charles River Ventures, Formative Ventures, Intel Capital, Interwest Partners, Khosla Ventures, Noble Venture Finance, Oak Investment Partners and Vision Capital. READ MORE>>

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

With the momentum and support of the local region with us, we were able to negotiate a profit share with our developer given the extent of tenant improvements Citrix was going to personally fund which was highly irregular for this region. We created a place to truly work better and liver better following Citrix’s core values. Brilliant. .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). What do you do when you have finally raised seed funds?

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Press Startup Writing Training 319

Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

The new funding will enable Petnet to expand its product line and sales and marketing capabilities. billion acquisition ( disclosed last November ) by the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The startup does its R&D and design in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 16, 2019

Additionally, Bartasi says they are in the process of closing an acquisition in Los Angeles that will result in Kindbody’s first permanent clinic in the city. “We are women designing for women. A whole bunch of women’s health startups have launched and secured funding recently.

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Mobile Pricing Social Network Los Angeles 167

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. Disney''s acquisition of Maker Studios for $500M-$1B set the tone, and soon after, Facebook acquired Oculus for $2B, and Apple acquired Beats By Dre for $3B. I like events.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Belkin Entertainment Newsletter 100

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

But, more and more, technology is allowing homeowners to get on their computer, and design a solar system on their rooftop and get a quote for it. With as many systems being installed, how hard has it been to raise capital from investors to fund those systems? To date, we''ve raise money on a tax equity fund from U.S.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. The opportunity for an acquisition came from them.

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Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. What is BloomNation? It''s sort of an Etsy for flowers.

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Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157