socalTECH

JULY 27, 2016

The The Stage Fund , a investment and acquisition firm focused on acquiring turnaround companies, has tapped a longtime Southern California entrepreneur, Dan Tamkin , as a new Managing Partner in Los Angeles. Tamkin is also a mentor at the Techstars Mobility startup accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs, I also encourage an entrepreneur exit focus early, and I really like the specific steps outlined in the classic book, “ Exit Signs ,” by Pamela Dennis, who has helped companies through this critical transition for decades. Listen carefully and act accordingly. Build relationships with potential acquirers.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2016

According to Csathy, the new company will provide access to talent, expertise, network, resources, and capital in the media and tech-related industry.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Camarillo-based SystemWare , a provider of signals acquisition and analysis systems used for cyber security, has been acquired by defense integrator CACI International. SystemWare was advised by Santa Monica-based Mentor Capital in the deal. Tags: systemware caci merger acquisition security cybersecurity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2021

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs, I also encourage an entrepreneur exit focus early, and I really like the specific steps outlined in the classic book, “ Exit Signs ,” by Pamela Dennis, who has helped companies through this critical transition for decades. Listen carefully and act accordingly. Build relationships with potential acquirers.

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Startup Entrepreneur Metrics Acquisition 173

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With the current volatile economy, as an active startup mentor, I’m seeing a new surge of entrepreneurs and startups, with the commensurate scramble for funding. Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger way back in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group.

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Funding Summary Entrepreneur Acquisition 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing. Overcoming obstacles and learning is one of the biggest inspiration for most entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In fact, I have found from personal experience and mentoring that both of these are necessary, but not sufficient, for building a business. Investments and acquisitions fail. Most entrepreneurs assume that success is dependent on their product expertise, coupled with some knowledge of how to run a business.

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Training Coach Startup Entrepreneur 142

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing. Overcoming obstacles and learning is one of the biggest inspiration for most entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

Acquisition of note: Nexsan Acquired For $120M, by Imation. How to find a startup mentor. Surf Air ($2.6M, Los Angeles, subscription aircraft service). TapIt Media acquired for $23M by Phunware. In our features section: Interview with Blair Harrison of Frequency. 9 Ways socalTECH Can Help You With Your New Year's Resolutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. Natural mentors – a desire to help. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub. Quantitative & analytical.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Angel investors probably will know your business, and want to be mentors along the way. Don’t sign up for one, expecting the other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

With the current strong economy, as an active startup mentor, I’m seeing a new surge of entrepreneurs and startups, with the commensurate scramble for funding. Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger way back in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It’s with profound sadness we mourn the loss of a true visionary, author, mentor, thought-leader, investor, and friend, Tony Hsieh. in 2018, after its acquisition by MVF Global , and onto their next venture, Established , which manages the Startup of the Year community. By Frank Gruber and Jen Consalvo. co-founders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

You can learn to be an entrepreneur by working in a startup, talking to peers, and mentoring. An internal business expansion is often incompatible with established operations, thus mergers and acquisitions are the most common scaling strategies. Every inventor is an entrepreneur by default.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Especially for entrepreneurs who have not built and sold companies before, and need this startup to be an attractive acquisition or IPO target in a few years, I can’t think of a better way to enlist outside experts and keep them motivated to help you meet the challenges of a startup. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth.

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Startup Entrepreneur Mentor Writing 145

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

An occasional discussion with a mentor won’t do it. Scaling is the holy grail of every new venture – from local to global, from online to brick-and-mortar to partners to mergers and acquisitions, from a private company to a public company, from cash-flow-positive to the next unicorn. The scale - expand to reach your full potential.

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Entrepreneur Help Incubator Startup 139

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Angel investors probably will know your business, and want to be mentors along the way. Don’t sign up for one, expecting the other.

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Startup Ideas Equity Invest 148

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

This strategy requires allocating a significant portion of your time, even as daily crises grow, to the nurturing of the leadership pipeline, mentoring high potentials, paying them well, and rewarding results with positive short-term feedback, as well as strategic promotional opportunities. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders.

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Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Organization 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2019

In fact, I have found from personal experience and mentoring that both of these are necessary, but not sufficient, for building a business. Investments and acquisitions fail. Most entrepreneurs assume that success is dependent on their product expertise, coupled with some knowledge of how to run a business.

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Training Coach Startup Entrepreneur 123

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2015

In my perspective as an advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs, there are a set of basic strategies that can be applied to every startup to dramatically improve the odds of success, no matter what the business domain. You also need a sales pipeline, customer acquisition costs and marketing costs as a percent of revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

With the current strong economy, as an active startup mentor, I’m seeing a new surge of entrepreneurs and startups, with the commensurate scramble for funding. There just aren’t enough angel investors and VCs to go around. You may no longer have the option of investing all earnings into growth, or servicing your special corporate cause.

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Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 79

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. (www.SoCconference.com ) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach.

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Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 140

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. 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. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep!

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire GRP Partners 359

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Most accelerators provide small seed investment in the range of $25,000, as well as mentoring, workspace and professional services, in exchange for an equity stake in the company. Business accelerators like YCombinator and TechStars are sometimes able to help startups looking for seed-stage funding. Startup incubator seed funding.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding 104

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs, I also encourage an entrepreneur exit focus early, and I really like the specific steps outlined in the new book, “ Exit Signs ,” by Pamela Dennis, who has helped companies through this critical transition for decades. Listen carefully and act accordingly. Build relationships with potential acquirers.

Startup 98

Startup Entrepreneur Metrics Acquisition 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

With the uptick in the economy, as an active startup mentor, I’m seeing a new surge of entrepreneurs and startups, with the commensurate scramble for funding. Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group.

Funding 102

Funding Summary Startup Entrepreneur 102

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

According to Snodgrass, SGL wants to deliver products and services that can quickly help entrepreneurs get the attention, and funding they need and have been overwhelmed with mentor, Angels, and VC requests since launch and to date.

Google 87

Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

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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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Monahan will be in charge of managing Science’s social customer acquisition companies like EverySignal and Madrigold. At the moment, Monahan is a mentor at 500 Startups, where he guides early stage companies in social media marketing. LA-based Science Inc.,

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Social Media Media Marketing Startup 82

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

Image via Pixabay As a mentor to many small business owners, I always caution them that you can never relax completely, just because your initial solution or product set appears to be getting traction, and the market buzz is positive.

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Metrics Startup Training Customer 86

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge companies, universities, and organizations will be sharing their latest technologies, products, and services in this unique Southern California event. The Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! portfolio management - U.S.

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Southern California Advertising IP Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

With the uptick in the economy, as an active startup mentor, I’m seeing a new surge of entrepreneurs and startups, with the commensurate scramble for funding. Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group.

Funding 98

Funding Startup Entrepreneur Summary 98

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

We were also about to build a really solid mentor network in a short period of time, pulling in about 250 CEO's and CTOs, from all backgrounds and locations. 12 major acquisitions this year putting it over 100 since 05. This year, we were lucky enough to find 40 great startups to invest in, growing StartEngine immensely. That's huge.

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Southern California High Tech SaaS Social Media 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

As an advisor and mentor to startups, I try to make sure entrepreneurs understand both the pros and cons of an IPO as an exit strategy. Even with private equity and private acquisition transactions, control stays internal to the principals. Many of these may still fail spectacularly, such as Webvan and Pets.com.

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Entrepreneur Startup Report Statistics 98