socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2021

San Diego-based sales and marketing software developer Seismic has raised $170M in a Series G funding round, the company said this morning, and is now valued at $3 billion. Along with the funding, the company said it has acquired Lessonly, a developer of sales training, coaching, and enablement software which is based in Indianapolis.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Givsum said that has received capital investments from both SteelBridge Labs and OC4 Venture Studios, but did not say how much it raised from those efforts. Givsum is led by co-founder and CEO Shawn Wehan. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

The summit is now associated with March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com). What's your role at March Capital? Meredith Finn: I joined March Capital at the beginning of the year. How did you end up joining March Capital? I think there are still barriers to women raising the same amount of capital that men to.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2014

Irvine-based PEAR Sports , a developer of personalized coaching apps for the iPhone and Android, has raised $5M in a funding round, to go towards its mobile apps and platform. PEAR Sports said the funding will go towards sales and marketing of its mobile app and hardware. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. What is that process?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The total funds include backing from a Republic campaign, pre-seed investors and capital from the co-founders. Boyd Myers explained that there are sales and repeat customers, but it was too early to discuss growth metrics. Biotech startup Shiru sprouting plant-based ingredients with new capital infusion.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements? You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you work at a company that has raised $20 million in capital or more this is the likely situation unless you had overnight and meteoric growth that gave you the power to hold on to a board majority.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. million in angel and venture capital. million in angel and venture capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements? You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. I think of VCs as coaches. And so is venture capital. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Dini makes the case that entrepreneurs are hunters, while the rest of us (large majority) are farmers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. I’m already back to work.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

The final piece is online coaching, which allows people, 7 days a week, to click and talk to a professional development coach, and help them go through questions, answer things like what should by resume look like. That provides a lot of efficiency in how we deploy capital, and simply just makes it work better.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2022

For example, Yvon Chouinard, when he was growing Patagonia , recognized a serious interest in helping the environment, and capitalized on it by dedicating a percent of sales to environmental protection. Spend time coaching and mentoring team members. This created a connection with both his team and customers.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

After founding 5 companies in a row, resulting in $5 billion in market value, $1 billion in sales, 2 IPOs (one on NYSE and one on Nasdaq) and raising $300M inc capital — I realized that my calling in life is to take all of those amazing experience and channel it into the next generation of impact-focused entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

These will almost always be related to sales and marketing, since they must tie back to cash flow. Don’t try to do it all – capitalize on your strengths. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. This is the stage where you move from managing by your gut to managing by numbers. Stay in your personal sweet spot.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5 Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. million Raised.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements? You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want.

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Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody. You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. This was such a guy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

I like the ten steps he defines, which I can summarize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

In a VC business when you raise additional capital you need to “level up” and act the round you are. The best ones bring in more executive leadership so you can appropriate allocate resources across sales, marketing, product, engineering and support. You’re the coach, mentor, cheerleader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements? You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 93

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

Based on my own experience in business over the years, and current coaching efforts, I recommend a focus on the following strategies and attributes: Make your customer the center of everything you do. Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, is recognized as an influencer in online retail, doubling sales annually, by giving away shoes to the needy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

He was able to raise money from a VC in Minneapolis called Split Rock , grow the business to over $200 million in sales and sell to Experian for nearly $380 million. 1 of the companies was sold (FlipGloss), 11 of the companies received funding, and one of the companies is profitable and has decided not to raise outside capital.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Southern California Tech Coast Angels 259

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The classic book, “ Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur ,” by serial entrepreneur and business coach John F. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Dini makes the case that entrepreneurs are hunters, while the rest of us (large majority) are farmers.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur News Slides Startup 95

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They can elect directors for their class of stock, approve mergers and acquisitions; approve increases or changes to the capital structure of the company and other more minor actions. Shareholders such as the investors are granted few rights by law. Of course they should not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). And Coach Campbell. The second is not.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

After founding 5 companies in a row, resulting in $5 billion in market value, $1 billion in sales, 2 IPOs (one on NYSE and one on Nasdaq) and raising $300M inc capital — I realized that my calling in life is to take all of those amazing experience and channel it into the next generation of impact-focused entrepreneurs.

Startup 52

Startup Case Study Ideas Invest 52

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Once you’ve been around for a few years, attracted some great people, landed real, paying customers and raised venture capital you’ve likely got a talented team around you. This is akin in the US to having sales staff in NY, SF & LA with your HQ in one of these locations. It doesn’t seem fair.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

– while the other might want a quick sale and pocket some bucks while the tech market is hot. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it’s why I believe executive coaches are so important for startups who have the financial resources to afford them. Those are the easy cases. We sat down the three of us.

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