socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

That deals loooks to be worth around $100M, based on reports from the WSJ. in a $580M deal. s former digital ventures, with digital games distributor Direct2Drive (once part of IGN) now owned by Los Angeles-based videogame rental firm GameFly. acquired IGN in September of 2005, for $650M. READ MORE>>.

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News Southern California Sales Los Angeles 159

Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2015

While you are busy building your high growth venture, you may have occasionally thought about which large companies might be the ultimate buyer of your company – a buyer that could optimize your idea, customer base, and team. Many large companies have a preferred template from which their deal teams rarely stray. By John Huston.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Beverly Hills-based private equity firm Shackleton Advisors announced today that it has acquired SafeHarbor Technology , a Seattle-based provider of software for managing inbound telephone, email, and chat requests. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Equity 140

Equity Beverly Hills IBM IBM 140

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

2014 was the most active year in TVC history as measured by the number of investments/acquisitions/follow-ons/exits we completed. Looking at the 21,600 venture deals done in the last decade -- 66% have returned 1x or less, 91% have returned 5x or less and only 0.7% spencer capital 2014 reflections venture' READ MORE>>.

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Capital Cloud Computing Southern California Equity 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. John Delacruz: What we do is we broker deals between restaurants and hungry diners in real time. What is Foodme all about? READ MORE>>.

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Idealab Pasadena Pasadena Angels Demand 217

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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Invest Entrepreneur Sales Startup 243

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

We are all victims of our past successes and thus, as an early-stage venture capitalist at Rincon Venture Partners , I constantly must remind myself that just because something was effective in a bygone era, doesn’t mean it will be so today, such as: CPA – After the dot bomb crash, online advertisers were hurting.

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SaaS Yahoo Advertising Custom 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital. This is minutes 8-11.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Tech.Co

JANUARY 19, 2016

The round is led by Subtraction Capital, and includes investments from PayPal co­founder Peter Thiel , Indicator Ventures, and venture debt lender Western Technology Investment (WTI). Given the nature of the venture capital industry, we understand the need for a secure deal management and stakeholder communications platform.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

We've also made it so that consumers can get offers pushed back to them, and those offers will be relevant, because unlike a deal-of-a-day, you will get targeted offers based on what you like, where you shop, and the stores and restaurants where you go to. There were also opportunities for me down here, as I was running the venture fund.

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Southern California Idealab Startup Custom 245

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

YouMail offers a voice mail service which allows cell phone users to preview their voicemail messages in email or on the web, convert those voicemails to text, and provide personalized phone greetings to callers, depending on who is calling. All of those features are key features of YouMail's service. READ MORE>>.

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Google Competition Tech Coast Angels Technical Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. It is how angel rounds come together.&#.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. The second is not.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked, Cloud-based enterprise platform for deal management and investor reporting, Wednesday announced a new suite of enterprise features in a move to take transactions mobile. The new features launched include business tools for reporting, file management, discussions and first-of-its-kind functionality for managing deals on an iPad.

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Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. Rationale: If I can sell my solution to just 1% of all the people in China, I will have a hugely successful venture. Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million in a new round of financing from Peter Thiel, FF Angel , Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups , Andrej Henkler (former Bertelsmann executive), and Alexsis de Raadt-St. For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

A VC wants to know that you have a solid plan to execute a stand-alone business and if you require capital for an acquisition they’d rather evaluate it at the time rather than over-fund you now. Every VC wants to fund a deal that seems to have too much demand. This part of a series to help you raise venture capital ?—?the

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Demand 247

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. In that position, Scot served as Executive Producer of the QB Club Chanel, a joint venture with the NFL. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This post was prompted by an email exchange I had with a young entrepreneur. Everyone has their own definition of momentum (user numbers, revenue, channel partners, biz dev deals, whatever). Some have “rules&# – everybody breaks them for the right deal. It’s a conversation that creeps up from time-to-time.

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Startup Venture Capital Invest Slides 360

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There are a number of reasons why Rincon Venture Partners passed on Twilio’s Seed Round. For us, it’s OK if we miss a great deal once in a while, so long as the companies we DO invest in generate outstanding returns. <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.>

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Recently, Santa Monica-based Geodelic (www.geodelic.com), the venture backed developer of location-based, mobile apps, has sharpened its focus to provide real-time offers, and has partnered with mobile operators like Verizon and Korean Telecom to offer up its services to those firm's customers. Unlike the U.S., READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Santa Monica Startup Commerce 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

It's been a good summer for Laguna Beach-based venture capital firm Okapi Ventures (www.okapivc.com), which recently saw its first portfolio firm exit last month in Carlsbad-based Helixis , which was acquired by Illumina for $105M. Marc Averitt: We're doing both life sciences and technology deals. Nice chatting with you today!

Startup 185

Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com). In the first incarnation of Baroda Ventures, he only worked alone.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

I spent the last year at a venture capital fund, helping people to prepare broken businesses. The perspective from the venture side has been a really good combination with my mobile and web experience. Email is becoming ineffective, and by 2011 there will be three times more smart phones than computers.

Mobile 162

Mobile Web Startup Custom 162

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. In that position, Scot served as Executive Producer of the QB Club Chanel, a joint venture with the NFL. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

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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Resource Startup Invest Entrepreneur 149

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the core pieces of that technology was around marketing and customer acquisition. It worked so well, in fact, that venture capitalists actually came to visit us, looked at what we had, and wanted to invest because of that technology. Because of that, we overinvested in technology.

Startup 210

Startup Marketing Custom Customer 210

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Farbod Shoraka: My background is actually in mergers and acquisition advisory. It''s very similar to flowers, in that sense that I was working on a deal selling a flower company, and got lots of background information and understanding of the industry as part of our due diligence. It''s sort of an Etsy for flowers.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. But that’s not the deal they made with us when we signed up. Our Twitter handle has become our identity, on par with an email address.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

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Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. Its mission is to encourage the growth and success of technology-based entrepreneurial ventures in Southern California.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

I was very interested in getting Dave McClure as an investor, because of he really gets customer acquisition and retention, and I thought he would be good to have with an e-commerce company, as he's been thinking about and selling things his whole life. So, I reached out to this VC I mentioned, who sent him an email.

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200