socalTECH

MAY 19, 2021

The funding came from Capital IP. The company said the new funding will gotwards hiring executives, and to expand its sales, client success, and engineering teams. Terms of that debt were not announced, however, VideoAmp said the non-dilutive funding also gives it the ability to draw up to $25M more in further financing.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Conversely if you’re burning $600,000 per month (yes, some companies do) then you only have 5 months of cash left. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2021

The funding came from Capital IP. The company said the new funding will gotwards hiring executives, and to expand its sales, client success, and engineering teams. Terms of that debt were not announced, however, VideoAmp said the non-dilutive funding also gives it the ability to draw up to $25M more in further financing.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 6, 2016

Camarillo-based analog and mixed signal semiconductor developer Semtech Corporation said on Monday that it has agreed to divest its Snowbush intellectual property (IP) business--which develops designs for high speed serial networking interfaces--to Rambus. in cash, along with a future royalty through 2022 based on sales.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 31, 2016

Los Angeles-based IP surveillance camera provider Arecont Vision said today that it has partnered with industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) company Viakoo. According to the companies, Viakoo joined Arecont's Technology Partner Program. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. Ownership Matters At Upfront we focus our energy on fewer companies where we take meaningful ownership and we continue to invest throughout the lifecycle of the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. Your deck should be so good that a VC asks you for permission to show it to his or her portfolio companies.

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Funding Venture Capital IP Email 239

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2014

Specific details of the program were not announced by the company, which says the effort is aimed at enterprise class networking, IP surveillance, unified wireless, network storage, and security products. dlink channel networking hardware enterprise switch router sales' READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. If you really want to do a product business then hire a professional manager for your services company, quit that job and focus 100% on your product company. You own the IP you create.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The San Diego chipmaker said a Chinese court has ordered four Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) subsidiaries in China to stop the sale and import of seven iPhone models in that country. Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) said the court had granted two preliminary injunctions against the subsidiaries over patents the San Diego company said Apple had violated.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We work with those companies, who tend to know a lot about what happens with their product in the retail sense, but who tend to lose track of what is happening with their products on the Internet. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels. For a company like us, it's really worked out well.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

In an intensely competitive area, how do you differentiate yourself and grow a company? With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2010

Culver City-based Fonality , a developer of Voice-over-IP, business PBX phone software, said late last week that it served its one-billionth cloud-based call recently, and had "record sales" during Q4. The company offers both an on-premise version of its software, PBXtra, as well as a newer, cloud-based, hosted offering called UNBOUND.

Culver City 145

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. They include: Sponsors.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The firm said it was advised by Moelis & Company and Bryan Cave LLP in the deal. Agilent's N2X Data Networks product line is used for testing and validating next generation networking equipment, including voice-over-IP, VPN, and data services. Ixia said the deal includes N2X's customers, sales, and R&D teams.

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Product Calabasas IP Networking 133

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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. Are you looking to potentially sell the company in the next year or two?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

As noted in parts I and II of this series, agreements with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) can be alluring and potentially fatal. This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. This is generally a straightforward and uncontested provision.

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Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For those who aren't familiar with HG Data, what does the company do? Elizabeth Cholawsky: HG Data is actually a seven year old company. The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. We made our name is what is now thought of as the technographics space.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. This is going to be fairly specific to the company. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free….

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with. I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it.

Software Review 381

Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. This is going to be fairly specific to the company. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free….

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

You can make it 8–12 pages and the Title Page can say “YourCo Teaser Deck” or “YourCo Company Backgrounder”) so that it’s clear this isn’t your full pitch deck if you want. You want to develop a “narrative” that holds the readers attention and helps shape the company into context. Compelling. Don’t send these?—?go

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Venture Capital Slides Email Startup 261

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

What goes into the thought processes of companies when they're acquiring startups and other firms? We thought it would be insightful for our readerswho are usually looking to get acquired by other companieson what the thought process of those large companies making those acquisitions are.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2009

The new CDN service is targeted at video, audio, content publishers, gaming companies, advertisers and others with need for streaming video delivery or web content acceleration. Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions provides Ip communication services between Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" This Panel will explore issues such as: How can companies best utilize social networking media? What are the risks and rewards?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2019

We spoke with Thomas on how the company's technology was spun out of Caltech, and why the startup believes the solar cell industry needs its technology. Thomas Russell: We're an early stage company, and we have R&D tools and R&D products currently available. What's the next step for your company? What does ETC Solar do?

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

Minnie Ingersoll: A few things, but most recently I started by own company, in 2013. Sometimes what I say, is if brand is your moat, and you're a direct-to-consumer company, versus where you really have some technology, and you have some IP, that's the side of the spectrum we play on. What do you look for in entrepreneurs?

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. In the process of doing that, it became apparent that there were lots of synergies between the companies, and more opportunities to work more closely together. You'd mentioned you had some investors?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Of course you could start your own company. As I talked about in “ Is it Time to Learn or Time to Earn ” – overwhelmingly the best economics go to those that start successful companies. Of course I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t start a company. For many people that’s the right answer.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

MarketShare recently launched a rebranding effort for the company, and is in the midst of a major hiring and expansion phase. Wes Nichols: MarketShare is an analytics company. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? We've been expanding the company aggressively.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Many people start companies arse backwards. Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Dominating business-to-consumer sales, Amazon seems ready to take over the world of business-to-business too. In its first year, Amazon Business generated $1 billion in sales. It’s not yet an ecosystem driver in B2B, although the longer it takes for other business supply companies to catch up, the harder it will be to beat Amazon.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

What makes us unique is we've filed a lot of IP on these timed, repetitive searches, and I think that's what is going to give us a unique value proposition. We're filing a lot of IP, and this repetitive search thing is big for us. Computers and electronics now are almost at a parity between offline and online sales.

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Compton Ventura Startup IP 138

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Technologists often insist that new things can’t be invented on a schedule, but successful companies seem to be able to do it on a regular basis. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Accountability. Idea management.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. Here’s the dilemma.

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