SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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APRIL 19, 2011

He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. What better than to have capital from somebody who has actually done it in the trenches? Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#.

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L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

has secured $165 million in funding from a venture capital group to build out its home services software firm through acquisitions and moves into new markets. Glendale-based ServiceTitan Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Handling PR with VCs. This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally. Just notice how many VC emails you get after your TechCrunch article or after you were on stage at TC50. In your VC pitch your PR page should take no longer than 30 seconds – Wait.

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Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. And VC’s are tough customers. I’ve talked before about how to build long-term relationships with VCs.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Because my role as a VC requires me to take and endless stream of meetings I long ago decided I need to learn as much as I can from the meetings I attend so I often just ask tons of questions and assimilate knowledge. When I think about what defines us as a VC I think: Operationally knowledgeable / strong startup competence.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. But if you ask anyone in the ecosystem of customer acquisition?—?founders, and you’ll hear the same thing: customer acquisition (CAC) is getting harder and more expensive.

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JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Partner Leverage.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The median VC exit price for deals is $70 million (FLAG Capital via Bryce.VC). Bimodal returns are a fallacy, many great VC funds are built on the power law curve. They say the same about VC. Both can hurt you in an acquisition. Often they are “soft landings” for PR purposes. They are wrong there, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2014

Seeing him again also reminded me of one of my first big lessons as a VC – knowing when giving in is more important than being right. ” But I started thinking more about the role of a VC and the founding team or CEO. What about when an acquisition takes place? There are simply times when you don’t agree.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. I run Revolution’s VC investments. Revolution, what is it?

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Venture Capital Examples Startup Invest 277

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

Pikover is an angel investor, with dozens of local startup investments; he was also co-founder of Xylan (IPO, $2B acquisition) and Access 360 (acquisition by IBM). bitvore data intelligence gathering venture capital yuri pikover' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2014

The chart of valuations shows that there are three companies which made the cut for being venture backed, having raised money in the last three years, and are still privately held. billion dollar startups venture capital exit merger acquisition spacex snapchat beats' billion); Beats Electronics ($1.0 READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Snapchat SpaceX Startup 213

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

VCs strangely never seem to weigh in on other VC funds. As an entrepreneur I never really knew what to make of VC return data. But more importantly, VC returns are notoriously hard to measure at one point in time. Let me offer you an insider’s take. Now from Both Sides of the Table I know a thing or two. Nobody knows.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

The round also included Greenspring Associates, Sands Capital Ventures, Cross Creek Advisors, and Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Revolution Growth is the venture investment firm led by AOL execs Steve Case, Donn Davis, and Ted Leonsis. Scopely is led by Walter Driver.

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Acquisition Mobile Venture Capital Los Angeles 113

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APRIL 14, 2012

My friend Christin Herron of Intel Capital weighed in on the issue. “it’s smart to use an impending investment valuation to drive a higher acquisition valuation” I would like to amend her statement slightly to read, “it’s smart to use an impending investment valuation to drive an higher acquisition.”

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Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

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JUNE 17, 2017

Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” Venture capital isn’t right for many business but if you do want to raise from a VC at some point you need to understand that often investors care more about growth than profits. They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Another, new venture capital firm, with an office in Los Angeles, NordicEye , has set up an office in Santa Monica, and has been targeting investments in the growing Silicon Beach region. only 11 months ago, before Proofpoint's $66M acquisition of Weblife today.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2013

The acquisition looks to be a great one for EcoATM''s investors, which also included Claremont Creek Ventures, Tao Venture Capital Partners, and Jens Molbak. Tao Venture Capital Partners is the investment firm led by Tom Clancy, who had formerly been at Enterprise Venture Partners. in funding to date.

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Claremont San Diego Venture Capital Acquisition 174

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Cloudant had been backed by Avalon Ventures, Devonshire Investors, In-Q-Tel, Rackspace, Samsung, and Toba Capital, and had only raised around $14.0M cloudant venture capital merger acquisition exit cloud software nosql database' in funding. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

MEDU itself is now flush with $4 million in seed funding in a round led by MaC Venture Capital, with participation from Halcyon Fund and a group of angel investors, including Ryan Shea. She explained that the decision to go after venture capital was to gain partners that would help the company grow.

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Develop Development Venture Capital Startup 257

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2014

in equity--related to a merger and acquisition, most likely the acquisition of Supernova (better known as Viddy ) earlier this month. fullscreen viddy supernova merger acquisition shares venture capital content youtube' The disclosure came via a regulatory filing. READ MORE>>.

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Acquisition Equity Venture Capital Content 159

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2014

The IPO of education company 2U also greatly benefited Los Angeles, with the company''s extensive operations in LA, plus backing from former Redpoint Ventures'' (now Archer Capital) investor Greg Martin.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2019

More than a third of the companies that went public in the first half of this year were backed by venture capital. That, plus robust merger and acquisition activity, set a record for venture-backed exit value—$165.2 Those returns. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2021

The company has raised $116M in venture capital, from such investors as Accel, Upfront Ventures, H.I.G. Growth Partners, Morgan Stanley, and Salesforce Ventures. The company did not disclose its current revenues, but said it has seen "record growth" in the first half of FY21.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Southern California venture capital investors Domain Associates and Versant Venture saw a public exit of one of their portfolio companies this morning, molecular diagnostics equipment maker Veracyte. veracyte venture capital molecular diganostics lifescience gene thyroid cancer merger acquisition exit domain versant'

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Southern California Marketing Venture Capital Acquisition 159

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

demand media credit facility financing venture capital merger acquisition' The new facility came from Silicon Valley Bank, U.S. Bank, Fifth Third Bank, Comerica Bank, Citibank, Union Bank, OneWest Bank, and Goldman Sachs Bank. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC? Great analysis from John Greathouse: Do You Speak VC? A Beginner's Guide to Investors How to Speak the Language of Venture Capital

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Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2014

Pasadena-based venture capital firm California Technology Ventures has scored an exit at one of its portfolio firms, selling cardiac catheter maker AngioScore , to medical device firm Spectranetics. California Technology Ventures has been an investor in AngioScore since at least 2004, as part of the company''s Series B funding.

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Technology Venture Capital Pasadena Acquisition 147

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

As I’ve written about before, You’d Have to be a Big Baby to Complain about Being a VC. Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. And I’m happy as a VC. And why I woke up at 4.50am. And yet you have to.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Greathouse: I know it’s difficult to estimate, but how much further along do you think you would be from a customer acquisition and revenue generating standpoint if you had taken in a few million in investment dollars? Metrics related to customer acquisition, lifetime value and churn. Semick: Thanks John, it was fun!

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

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OCTOBER 25, 2014

Fund Raising – No self respecting VC would admit (even to themselves) that they are influenced by what they read about you in the press. Customer Acquisition - I left customer acquisition for last intentionally. By the time they’ve called they may not even remember themselves where they first heard of you.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2014

rubicon project merger acquisition clearstone news mayfield winners frank addante' Who were the biggest winners in the successful IPO of Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project ? Based on Rubicon''s current price (around $19.24

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Clearstone News Santa Monica Venture Capital 190

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

The new features are an outgrowth of the evolution of CapLinked from providing its services to startups and venture capital firm, to large clients like Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital Partners, AI Verified, NextView Ventures, and Equity partners CRB. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The funding was led by Rincon Venture Partners, Wavemaker Partners, Frontier Venture Capital, and Apex Ventures. Financial details of the Dart Music acquisition was not announced. Los Angeles-based HAAWK , a new startup focused on rights management, copyright enforcement, and content monetization, has raised $2.5M

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