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DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based ringDNA , which develops sales engagement software, says it has launched a new, artificial intelligence (AI) product, which it says helps recommend actions for sales reps, to increase success. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Arrowroot Capital Management says it has completed its sale of its interest in SocialChorus , to another private equity investor, Sumeru Equity Partners. Financial details of the sale were not announced. Arrowroot Capital said it will continue to own a minority interest in the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

But if you level up , raise capital and grow customers, revenue and staff – life changes. Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. Do you hire more sales people? And then there’s product management. Engineering?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital says that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, Provation, which provides software to the healthcare industry. Financial details of the sale were not announced. Clearlake said it investedin Provation in March of 2018, after a carve-out acquisition from Wolters Kluwer.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2024

To some it is financial security, building a base of wealth created from the increased value of the enterprise at the end point of sale or at an IPO. Vision, risk and capital, oh my! And few think of the risks that increase over time as initial capital is expended. Everyone has a vision when starting a business.

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MARCH 21, 2013

So when I meet with GRP portfolio companies that do enterprise sales I try to emphasize the following: 1. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team. Integrate PS Work Into Sales & Marketing Processes. Referenceability is the lifeblood of sales.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Management said this week that it has backed field sales software developer SalesRabbit. SalesRabbit offers up both native mobile and web-based software aimed at field sales organizations.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2015

I write about sales often both because it’s the lifeblood of any organization and because in my experience it is the area in which more startups are least experienced or inclined. I also write and talk about it frequently because raising capital is a part of sales and this is important for entrepreneurs to understand.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A new, Santa Barbara-based private equity investment company Cuadrilla Capital says it has acquired a Mt. Abraham was previously at Clearlake Capital and Marlin Equity Partners. Laurel Township, New Jersey-based company, Agilence. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Sulak was previously at Marlin Equity Partners.

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2021

Los Angeles-based Endgame, a developer of software that links user behavior with sales opportunities, has raised $17M in funding, according to the company. The funding was split between a $12.25M, Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures, and an earlier $5M Series Seed funding which was led by Upfront Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I spend a lot of time with startups and thus hear many companies talk about their approach to sales and their interactions with customers. Given customers & sales are the lifeblood of any organization you’d imagine everybody would respect their customers. Contrast that with a VC conversation I had. Startup Lessons'

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 senior sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business 6 months. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Here, we have Greg Martin, Founder and Managing Partner of Archer Venture Capital (www.archervc.com). At Archer, we had two very successful exits with the sale of Swoop, our healthcare data business and the sale of Credit Karma to Intuit. Greg Martin is Founder and Manging Director of Archer Venture Capital (www.archervc.com).

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 2, 2020

When it comes to venture capital, Los Angeles is a city on the rise. In the past year, it’s seen one of the most profitable venture-backed exits of any tech ecosystem (with the $4 billion sale of Honey to PayPal) and investors are minting billion-dollar companies in the region at a torrid pace. Will Hsu, Mucker Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2011

If you raise a new round venture capital (say $2.5 Listen, understanding the world of valuations and how equity gets split on a sale is a whole lot more complicated than the graphic depicts. The simplest way to think about this is: If you own 20% of a $2 million company your stake is worth $400,000. million at a $7.5

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The funding was led by Kayne Partners Fund, the growth private equity arm of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP. Los Angeles-based Signal Automotive , a startup which develops software for managing buying, selling, and inventory allocation for automobile dealers, has raised $20M in a funding round.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Actually, it came through an introduction from our friends at Partners Group who knew that the company was raising capital. She created the company in New Zealand and without raising any institutional capital had grown a global business. We couldn’t have asked for a better fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

Put simply – you need enough users in a segment who care about what you’re doing to dictate investing further in the product or in sales & marketing resources. I see many companies these days just race to raise capital. They see capital raising at the success validator. You need product / market fit.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

Existing investors like SeventySix Capital, The Strand Partners, Stadia Ventures, Hersh Interactive Group, and Transcend Fund, as well as early Zoom employees Richard Gatchalian and Aaron Lewis, also participated. . Sales, Sony Music Entertainment, in a statement. . “The third piece is a developer ecosystem,” Evans said.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The funding is being led by QED Investors; Founders Fund, Susa Ventures, Navitas Capital, and Prudence Holdings also participated. That also speaks to the vast and interesting quantity of data that the startup is amassing on home sales, and how it can use that to power its platform in the future. million Series A also led by QED.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

On sales I often talk about “ Why Buy Anything, Why Buy Now, Why Buy Me ” as a tool to think about a sales process. On teams I have a framework for tech teams “ CTO vs. VP Eng ” or on sales I have “ Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars ” 5. I had coffee with a friend on Friday.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). The numerator (return) encourages more sales, which is fine. But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations. Venture Capital. So they could monetize and people would pay.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2021

iLife said the funding was led by Foundation Capital, and also include AME Cloud Ventures and Cherubic Ventures. Playa Vista-based iLife, a startup which is developing tools to help life insurance agents set up their own, branded "digital insurance agency", has raised $4M in a seed funding round, according to the company.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Co-founded by Matt Lafferty and Brian Gonzalez, Curri aims to solve one of the major hurdles for local construction suppliers who miss out on sales because of an inability to deliver to contractors when they need it. The company estimates that it saves its customers roughly half the cost of deploying an in-house fleet for delivery. .

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2019

All of Ordermark’s previous investors came back to provide additional capital for the company’s new funding, including: TenOneTen Ventures, Vertical Venture Partners, Mucker Capital, Act One Ventures and Nosara Capital , which led the Series A funding. “We The round was led by Boulder-based Foundry Group.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Earlier this week, Good Growth Capital (www.goodgrowthvc.com) announced it has started looking at investments in Southern California, adding Krisztina Holly as West Coast Venture Partner for the firm. We could easily use 4x to 5x the amount of capital we are getting now. So what else are you working on? READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

The company is looking to raise roughly $200 million in the stock sale for its portfolio of burger, chicken and sausage replacements, selling 8.75 million shares of common stock at an upper limit of $21 per share that would value Beyond Meat at more than $1 billion. The meat processor and marketer invested in Beyond Meat back in 2016.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Local Capital – I do believe that you’ll struggle to get a community started without some local capital.

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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). 5 years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. In sales there are also three rules: Qualify, qualify, qualify.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The median VC exit price for deals is $70 million (FLAG Capital via Bryce.VC). Don’t put all your eggs in the “corp dev basket” – often deals are champions by the business units (product or sales). Often they are “soft landings” for PR purposes. Remote teams can be higher retention for staff.

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