Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Actively pursue mergers and acquisitions. Overreliance on acquisitions drains resources and de-motivates internal teams.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

in the past, but now we really want to focus on expanding there,” he said. Vaish is already in talks with a handful of other startups and is open to more acquisitions, he said. Voice bots would help it find more clients, such as those who handle customer services through phones, for instance. You can’t expand in the U.S.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

We enlisted the help of our families and friends and arranged the cards into complete sets. We were also one of the first card companies to purchase cases of cards directly from Topps, the only company that produced sports cards at that time. Our parents had to sign on our behalf, as we were not of legal age to execute purchase orders.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

A technical review can help your development team adopt new processes and strategies to maximize their speed and efficiency. A technical review can help you decide what team will work best both with you and for you. To help you, we need to understand your specific concerns. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

First off, on our original article, we identified a number of people in the industry we specifically said did not qualify for the list -- because they had successfully exited companies in the past and who are proven entrepreneurs. award acquisition merger exit enterepeneur socaltech50' So then, how did our actual list do? READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

The other side of the business is a new monthly subscription service for stylists that helps them market their handcrafted wigs, beauty and other digital products and services. A hairstylist can help a woman feel better about themselves. The company makes money on the wig and hair sales and saw revenue triple over the past year.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

What does the landscape of social media marketing look like, in the wake of Salesforce.com's acquisition of Buddy Media? In the past month alone, some of the worlds largest enterprise technology companies have acquired social media marketing start-ups accumulating a total spending of close to $2.2 billion dollars. Continued.).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2014

We''re seeing more and more public offerings; exciting activity in the music, media and entertainment space; an expanding pool of tech talent; and, more recently, several high caliber acquisitions and financing rounds, all of which will really help the whole ecosystem grow.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2013

There are a number of key performance indicators that help new generation company management see more clearly their progress and corporate health. You will recognize the value of these for any business, even if they have not been in common use in the past. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio).

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. It has made some 15 acquisitions in the last two years, including Boston Organics and EJ Food Distributor this year.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

Ultimately, it will help them find a career, and help the world. I think if we, as Belkin, can find a way to help the communities where we are, where we are living, by helping students grow and helping them with the challenges they face, that's a natural thing with who we are and who we've become over the past 39 or so years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Yahoo has been an example of a company which expanded in all directions through 53 acquisitions, to the point where most customers were confused, and it was overtaken by Google as your main search engine. Locked-in syndrome – do what worked in the past. Narcissus complex – look inward to see what helps.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Indeed, part of the reason for the financing is to accelerate the pace of its acquisitions and investments into new game development studios, according to chief executive, Walter Driver. “Increasingly, it’s helpful for them to have publishing capabilities that are more global in nature and more scaled.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

We know the perceptions you have of our market from our past. They produced algorithms and systems that helped to personalize the Internet so that you have a unique experience when you visit individual websites. AOL committed to keeping the team in LA after the acquisition and in building a deeper technology team in town.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the past several years we have observed a significant decrease in startups leaving SoCal,” said Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank. The potential impact making these changes could have is an added 200,000 new jobs and growth of $100 billion for the whole economic region.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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. The exit through acquisition by ReliaQuest is the first of what we expect will be many exits for our Fund 1 portfolio.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote. (If Have you worked with a talented individual or agency who helped you find and keep more users? Respond to our survey and help other startups find top growth marketers they can work with!

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In a statement, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar called Providence an "ideal partner" over the past five years. Providence had helped fund the initial efforts to start Hulu. Providence Equity Partners had invested $100M in Hulu in 2007, and reportedly sold back its stake for $200M to the company this week. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. 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.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Peer Group – Meet with other emerging entrepreneurs who will help you objectively evaluate your experiences and provide relevant feedback regarding your successes and failures. It will also allow you to refer back to past experiences without risking an erroneous decision based on a false memory. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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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. We want to create a great consumer experience, which is significantly different than cookie cutter, cut-and-paste coupon sites. That''s what we want to create.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 20, 2019

“We are excited to be strengthening our partnership with the LAFD, one of the nation’s preeminent public safety agencies, to help them take advantage of DJI’s drone technology that has been purpose-built for the public safety sector,” said Bill Chen , Enterprise Partnerships manager at DJI, in a statement at the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

By “vertical production” I meant that many online video production companies will have a strong vertical focus that will help them win the battle to sign up talent, build stronger & more loyal audiences and align with stronger advertiser relationships because they serve more endemic audiences. of the population).

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. Our dream went beyond monthly cocktail events, and together we created a new vision for how we could help innovators everywhere. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co Most importantly, we like them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Actively pursue mergers and acquisitions. Overreliance on acquisitions drains resources and de-motivates internal teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. Customer acquisition cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

And by the way, if you don’t manufacture any of your candy bars yourself you are merely a middleman packaging up somebody else’s product and taking a vig on helping get customer distribution. It is the world’s best customer acquisition for video consumers to get them to come to your O&O where you can make your $25 CPMs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was too early stage for me but that I would happily keep track of their progress. In another post I’ll talk about how PR has changed dramatically in the past 10 years or you can just read Brian Solis’s blog or buy his book on the subject.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

THQ has been looking for a buyer for the company, as it has faced decreasing sales and losses over the past few quarters. The firm said earlier this month that it had hired banker Centerview Partners to help shop the firm. THQ said that the financing may result in "significant and material" dilution to shareholders of the company.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

All this week, we're featuring reflections on the past year from movers and shakers in the community. We have added several well respected and experienced institutional investors who have helped us improve our thinking across many areas. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year? READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs?

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Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Kevin McDonald is the new TCVN President, a position Foley held for the past year and Greenberg held before that. TCVN, a nonprofit technology group, was founded in 1984 to educate and assist entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies in Orange County and to connect them with money, advice and other resources to help their businesses grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. And if we were going to emphasize truly helping our portfolio as well as helping our own internal team better manage and live our own brand we wanted somebody senior who was part of our executive team.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). I don’t use the word ‘spectacular’ lightly.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

Our last (belated) one is from Kevin Winston , the founder of Digital LA , the big networking group which helps to connect Silicon Beach through an extensive lineup of events. 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.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. Wenzel, “When a new key user starts with the company, we call them to introduce ourselves and find how we can be helpful to them in their new role. It’s not about helping them use our software.

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