socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. WuXi AppTec said that Pharmapace will become a wholly owned subsidiary of its clinical CRO arm, WuXi Clinical, as a result of the acquisition. The company was founded in 2013 in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

When you first start your career as an investor (or when you first start writing angel checks) your main obsession is “getting into great deals.” You’re thinking about one bullet at a time. When you’ve been playing the game a bit longer or when you have responsibilities at the fund level you start thinking more about “portfolio construction.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2020

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that one of its portfolio companies, Provation Medical , has acquired MD-Reports , a provider of electronic medical record (EMR), practice management (PM), and report writing software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014. Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2023

Preparing for the game… 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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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

” In a recent e-mail newsletter, Hush founding CEO Daniel “Ewok” Lee announced the acquisition, writing, “Some huge news to share – we’ve been acquired by Bose Corporation!” Lee did not reveal. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

As BCG writes in its report: The good news for SoCal and any region with tech ambitions is that the Bay Area has in some ways been too successful. “Over the past several years we have observed a significant decrease in startups leaving SoCal,” said Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

income tax charge to write-down the value of U.S. The revenues were boosted by two acquisitions, including the firm's buy of Agilent's N2X Data network Testing Product Line in October, and the acquisition of Capapult Communications in June. The loss came due to a $27.6M deferred tax assets. the firm reported in Q3.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition was supported by private equity investor Silver Lake Partners, which is the majority owner of Cast & Crew. Cast & Crew said the buy will help expand its suite of technology solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

She entered you reservation by writing in a time slot in a paper calendar and you were in. We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. The hostess worked from 4-10pm so you had to call during these hours.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

The new Microsoft Ventures will seek investments that fall outside the commercial deals that the company has done more frequently in the past, writes Nagraj Kashyap, corporate vice president of Microsoft Ventures, in a blog post announcing the new effort. That forms one end of the company’s spectrum of startup activities. Peggy Johnson.

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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). In a startup this is a mistake.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Your $200 million “small acquisition” is a cool 60% of all of their cash. The first being a competitive acquisition offer from a fierce competitor. Christin goes on. Uh… yeah.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 9, 2012

As I write this, the articles and comments about my company’s demise continue. Considering we never had anyone even remotely interested in acquisition over the years, I’m not sure the company had a future regardless of its demise. Someone called my company a scam today. Do they really believe that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The best way to do this is to highlight a recent similar company payback to investors, via going public or acquisition exit. If you don’t have the time to write things down, or your writing skills leave something to be desired, don’t be afraid to get some help.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. If I don’t commit to millions of dollars of acquisitions I will … die? So I thought I would. But that’s not how you make money in the venture capital business.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. — Balaji S.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators. I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog. What are some of the top things you've published online, e.g., blog posts?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high. Customer acquisition costs can be as much as $200 an hour. With HeyTutor, we track those lessons, let you write notes down about your clients, we create a tutor profile for you and a hub. We knew customer acquisition costs were a low lower than that value.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Journal or Blog – Writing about your experiences will force you to be contemplative and thoughtful. Journal or Blog – Writing about your experiences will force you to be contemplative and thoughtful. It will also allow you to refer back to past experiences without risking an erroneous decision based on a false memory.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

This acquisition resolved the surgical robotic IP landscape and allowed Intuitive to dominate the market. Unlike an unregistered copyright, which you gain automatically by expressing an idea in written form, you cannot gain intellectual property protection by simply being the first person to describe an idea in writing.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC. For instance, in a section describing the ramifications of a No-Shop clause, Matt writes, “Insist on spelling out key terms prior to a signed term sheet if it has a no-shop clause in it.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2010

To further enhance your state of denial, you write a new book entitled How the Mighty Fall and blame the previously vaunted companies for subsequently faltering. To further enhance your state of denial, you write a new book entitled How the Mighty Fall and blame the previously vaunted companies for subsequently faltering.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

It's very exciting to find these apps, and once we make those acquisition and changes, see if our expectations and projections are meeting up with what happens in reality, once we actually own the application. We have a huge acquisition pipeline. Why not just go and build your own apps? And they are all roller coasters, as you know.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements. Thus, I will let my Big Dumb Company (BDC) partner write our agreement. Fallacy: Yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. I believe this is important because it means that Ad.ly We will be direct and forthright.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

During this time, Taylor began to read about Facebook’s Oculus acquisition and wondered what that technology could bring to the world. We started traveling to Sundance and SXSW and these shows with awesome companies, but no one was writing about it,” Taylor said. That really manifested into us doing events. And UploadVR was born.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We caught up with co-founder Joey Flores on the story behind the company's brush with death, and its recent acquisition by You42, which was announced last week. Joey Flores: Yeah, we spend the earlier part of 2014 exploring acquisition options, because we had a pretty hard time raising money. Joey, thanks for the time today.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

CapLinked says the round of funding and new appointment are an advancement in their move to displace the legacy left by Virtual Data Room (VDR) with their intuitive new product for coordinating on complex business deals such as asset sales, financings, and mergers and acquisitions. 25 Years of Writing Code.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. Anything requiring lead generation and/or customer acquisition I call Matt Coffin.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Meanwhile, this year’s deal count is declining sharply, a sign that venture investors are still writing bigger checks for fewer deals. Strategic acquisitions and buyouts accounted for 91 percent of all venture-backed exits last quarter, according to Venture Monitor. That would be second only to the $78.9

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2010

To further enhance your state of denial, you write a new book entitled How the Mighty Fall and blame the previously vaunted companies for subsequently faltering. Do you admit that you may have mistakenly analyzed the data? If you are Jim Collins, you ignore the fact that your underlying assumptions and interpretation of the data were flawed.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

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. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. We really believe in the market. What areas you personally are looking at right now?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product."

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. 2.2mm in Series A.

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