socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

The prefab building area has seen some recent venture capital interest, most recently with Blu Homes in Boston, which just scored some new venture capital. Marmol Radziner provided the design for the modern, green mobile homes at affordable price points. Todd Jerry: I joined the company in early 2008.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2017

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

The HOPii is a countertop sized, high-tech fermentation device for your homebrewing needs. Lishtot is the first IoT network of consumer products that can test drinking water for contaminants within seconds for an affordable price. The company has been selected as a CES Innovation Awards 2018 Honoree. HOPii (San Jose, CA).

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

We debated the merits of releasing two products, one at a lower price with fewer features, but we ultimately decided to release a single version of GoToMyPC, with a highly limited feature set. . Mark's move to Silicon Valley was no doubt predicated on his belief that Facebook would obtain capital and recruit top-talent more efficiently.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. The venture capital firm that bears his name. Kleiner Perkins.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Ironically, studies have shown that the majority of value associated with high-tech innovations involve unique advancements in non-product areas, such as: pricing (SaaS subscriptions vs. licensing), delivery (downloads vs. retail) and customer experience (Apple vs. Microsoft). smaller, faster, cheaper, lighter, etc.)

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The startup, led by co-founder and CEO Gabriel Halimi , is backed by Crosslink Capital, Anthemis Group, an affiliate of USAA, and such angels as Jamie Siminoff (of Ring fame) and Jason Nazar (who founded Docstoc). Plumbers are not exactly known for their adoption of high tech products. How has that been for you?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

The basic tenets which make a small, lifestyle business successful are surprisingly similar to a high-tech startup: establishing a productive corporate culture, hiring great people, sourcing reasonably priced capital and identifying and satisfying one or more market segments. Look around.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Down to capital structure and common stock liquidation preferences.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

A company official told Xconomy the drug would be priced in line with standard of care enzyme replacement therapy, which costs around $300,000 per patient, per year. The drug has a list price of $69,350 per patient, per year. —Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: JAZZ ) agreed to pay $1.5

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. When companies have excess capital, they often dither as they attempt to craft an ideal solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It will affect your ability to get the right jobs and promotions as well as your ability to attract talent and capital. I wanted to do business projects and I got in touch with a guy from the strategy consulting practice in the telecoms & high-tech practice in London. You’re a tech guy. I had had enough.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. Want to raise money?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit. We took $2.3

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