socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2011

According to the list, put together by Larry Cheng and based on Compete traffic numbers, Suster was ranked number 3, with 53,655 monthly unique visitors to his blog, Both Sides of the Table. The venture capital blog ranking was the fourth annual ranking of 149 venture capital, microVC/seed, and growth equity blogs.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Southern California Blogging 145

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. billion in a round led by the private equity firm GPI Capital this week.

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Services Startup Venture Capital Redpoint 207

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm founded by Frank Addante, is on track to do $100M in revenues this year and will reach profitability in Q4, according to a blog post by Addante Tuesday afternoon.

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Clearstone Santa Monica Advertising Blogging 232

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Proficio, a Carlsbad, CA-based startup providing cybersecurity protection services for middle market companies, has raised $12 million in an investment round led by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. The Los Angeles-based private equity firm provided funding from its Kayne Partners Fund Group, which invests in high-growth technology businesses.

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Equity Los Angeles Invest Networking 40

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I often advise startup companies not to try and pin all of your brand equity into an announcement. Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. But I miss blogging. A brand is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Venture Capital Startup Blogging Platform 324

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill. The startup has already secured a seed investment from Maveron and CRV, TechCrunch has learned, and will receive another $150,000 in exchange for 7% equity upon entering YC next year.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Morningside Ventures, a private equity and venture capital firm founded in Hong Kong in 1986, was the sole investor in the Series A financing, which brings Meissa’s fundraising total to nearly $34 million. The startup is a resident company at Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s facility JLABS in South San.

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Venture Capital Equity Startup Funding 109

Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 Have investors drifted, becoming less dogmatic about hitting interim milestones with as little capital as possible? history (admittedly, at 2.1

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Venture Capital Capital Activity Invest 40

Xconomy

MAY 15, 2019

Eleven-year-old Tealium has now hauled in more than $160 million in venture capital, and is prepping to become one of the region’s first big tech companies to go public in over five years. Silver Lake Waterman, a fund within the private equity giant that specializes in providing growth capital to later-stage tech companies, led the round.

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Silver Lake San Diego Software Venture Capital 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality. When you don't accept capital from someone else, you aren't beholden to anyone else's input. But when your only capital is your hard-earned seed money, every penny that goes out will be scrutinized painfully. Businesses can be built on sweat equity.

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Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Top venture capital firms continue to pour money into software robotics companies that promise to automate monotonous business operations, like processing mortgage applications, that are often performed by humans. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

In a blog post called “Fixing the Inequity of Startup Equity,” it offered a raft of free documents companies can download to more easily implement a 10-year exercise window. They’ve extended the window to exercise options for employees who have at least a minimum period of service.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. . - What advice do you have for people who want to get into venture capital? Don’t. Beyond The Rack.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Southern California 210

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. Early in his days when he was raising capital for DocStoc he came to see me a lot. Who cares what my equity is. People who have raised money from them.

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Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

PeakSpan Capital, a growth equity investor based in New York and Burlingame, CA, led the round, which included Nashville Capital, Cultivation Capital, ClearVision Equity, and TTCER Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. Boards are not appointed to be founder-friendly lapdogs for the 1–3 founders who start companies and usually own the largest equity positions in the company.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Report 217

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company). Profitability.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Just as entrepreneurs need to have thoughtful answers about business models and customer acquisition, I think they now will also need to be prepared to address issues on community impacts and equity. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Often, this also involves a HELOC (Home Equity Line of Credit) if you’re a home owner with equity. 7A: The 7A program is a variable rate loan program also serviced by local banks and guaranteed at 90% by the federal government to finance inventory, refinance debt and for other working capital needs.

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Startup Tech Coast Angels TCVN Incubator 124

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Magnolia Medical Technologies , a Seattle-based manufacturer of devices for collecting blood and bodily fluids, announced this week it has raised $20 million in equity funding to ramp up sales of its flagship product. The funding comes as Magnolia and San Diego-based competitor Kurin battle each other in court.

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San Diego News Equity Invest 64

Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2018

The Series D round included investments from previous BitSight backers Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, and Singtel Innov8. The Series D round included investments from previous BitSight backers Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, and Singtel Innov8. The new funding brings BitSight’s total venture capital haul to $155.

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Venture Capital Equity Research Capital 55

Xconomy

OCTOBER 31, 2017

To close the healthcare and life sciences gender gap, there have been programs to move women into the boardroom. People are building mentoring networks. And there have been public pledges to do better.

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Equity Mentor Report Mobile 49

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Aquam, a San Diego company with technology for cleaning out and re-lining aging utility pipelines, has raised $26 million in a growth capital round led by NewWorld Capital Group , a New York private equity firm that makes investments in sustainable energy and natural-resources related deals.

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Services San Diego Resource Equity 55

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Anybody who follows this blog knows that my mom was the most influential person on my entrepreneurial career. Equity for the future? If you are the person staying how resentful will you become working your arse off for equity that your co-founder who leaves will get value from. We sat down the three of us.

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Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. He’s fine with equity provided it’s cheap to paper it legally. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets.

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Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the VC & Private Equity world there’s a small number, too, with one of the most respected being PEHub. But this gets all the space on prominent blogs because it’s what bloggers like to cover.&# It’s self selecting. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Minutes 8 – 10. Dan also agrees with this.

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Venture Capital Slides Seed Funding Google 232

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Now, more and more, we''re extending our use cases into not just websites and blogs, but also to lots of web application use cases. Simon Anderson: It is.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

We spent our future since the equity was artificial. To understand this in great detail see this very important blog post by Henry Blodget on the unemployment rate in the US and its impact on the recovery. So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) Consumer spending is where I’m dubious. See point 2 below.

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Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the previous six months, I’d read several articles in finance blogs or newsletters about yet another company that had just been financed in their specific vertical. In contrast, this local company had been built on something around $1 million in equity. Most of the financings I read about were for $5 million to $20 million.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Blogging 120

Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2020

The public markets are moving erratically, but Alnylam Pharmaceuticals showed this week that selling equity isn’t the only way for biotech companies to raise cash. Late last year Alnylam (NASDAQ: ALNY ) began exploring potential royalty deals for inclisiran, a drug that uses RNA interference to lower cholesterol.

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Equity Activity Marketing Company 84

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. And that leads me to today’s post.

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Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Xconomy

APRIL 24, 2019

Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY ) is paying Avidity $20 million upfront—plus $15 million in equity—for the rights to use the La Jolla, CA, startup’s technology to try and develop new medicines.

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Equity Design Help Technology 76

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2011

Give them a large sum of equity. It is not uncommon to see startup founders walk before raising capital and take large pieces of equity with no vesting. People just don’t talk about it publicly or in blogs. Hire your co-founder. Vested over 4 years. If you ever fall out of love you have a pre-nuptial agreement.

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Startup Equity Funding Summary 393

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Progenity, a San Diego molecular diagnostics company focused on women’s health, reproductive medicine, and oncology, has raised $125 million in a Series B financing led by New York’s Athyrium Capital Management, an earlier investor. The financing marks one of the biggest life sciences deal involving a San Diego company this year.

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San Diego Equity Capital Develop 52

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I would gladly part with equity (actually, I have) to work with people like her on deals. VENTURE CAPITAL. And finally that brings me to obvious topic of venture capital. When I wrote about Lines, Not Dots (probably my most often quote blog post) I made it clear that “lines” go both ways. No exceptions.”

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Startup Venture Capital Coach Press 363

Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2019

A Chicago-based private equity firm has tapped the former head of NuVasive and finance chief of GreatCall to start a new healthcare company in San Diego. The company, Corza Health, is headed by Greg Lucier, most recently CEO at NuVasive, and backed by the PE firm, GTCR, with money from its $5.25 billion Fund XII.

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