Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

By all measures the past year has been successful. Teams that I’ve backed have sold their companies to Disney, Apple and AOL for substantive amounts of money. But the truth is that selling a company doesn’t always feel like a celebration as a VC. Still: I hate selling companies. And then you move on.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The problem in taking such money rests in the legality of taking money from non-accredited investors, people who do not meet the SEC standard for making non-public company investments. What if some past investors don’t meet that standard? Does issuing a PPM insulate the company? So, what is the problem? Your future process.

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Berkonomics

MAY 10, 2018

Here is one that is so important to the continued health of a growing company that it cannot be overstated. Long term debt is taken on for the acquisition of fixed assets such as equipment, cars, facilities and acquisitions of companies or their assets. How much can you borrow against company assets?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In fact, only 100 of the 10,000 multimillion-dollar consumer companies around the world can claim to be an “apostle brand” – one that inspires enduring trust, loyalty, and endorsement. Startups have the advantage in starting with a dream and no feet stuck in the past. Don’t ever assume that your brand is stable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2021

The challenge is how to know and exit gracefully when the right time has come, without trauma to either the company or themselves. Reluctant to leave the spotlight, they are past their prime and should turn the reins over to a new generation. Don’t shackle yourself to the past. Keep good company. Comeback kids.

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Xconomy

MAY 22, 2020

But the biotech sector is defying the pandemic with crossover financings and freshly minted public companies. On Friday, three firms added their names to the list of life science companies preparing to join the public markets. COVID-19 has ravaged the economy, and it was expected to quash the IPO market, too.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Tech solutions for such pressing issues as the climate crisis and social inequality have seen a 280% increase in global VC investment from 2015 to 2020, while investment in this space more than doubled in both cities over the past five years. 2020 is set to be a record year for London’s impact tech companies, which have received $1.2

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

There’s a new company that’s sitting on top of some of the fastest growing consumer-facing businesses in the world — liquor and marijuana delivery — and its name is Pacific Consolidated Holdings Group. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. .”

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2017

But if the departing employee is even a little bit reticent to tell of his or her plans, the result is the first stage of what could become an outright war between you and a newly separated past employee, sent away that day with an escort out the door. Never underestimate the venomous response from such a threat.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

Aliso VIejo-based UST Global , a provider of IT services and outsourcing, said today that it has acquired four different companies over the past six months expanding its workforce in the US, ASia, India, Europe, and Latin America. Financial details of those acquisitions were not announced.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 23, 2017

LA's technology startup industry has saw a surge in new companies and efforts from its serial entrepreneurs in the last few months. Here's a quick look at just a few of the new companies who are led by serial entrepreneurs from the LA ecosystem. Entering Startup image courtesy Mike @ flickr.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Celebrity investors including Gwyneth Paltrow, Rebel Wilson, Ruby Rose, Darren Criss, Baron Davis, Tove Lo, and Casey Neistat have come together to back the Los Angeles-based thc-infused drink company, Cann , the company said. It’s good.). There’s also Kin Euphorics, which also pitches itself as an alcohol alternative.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Creating a gerat company in a relative vacuum is an exercise in complete trust that the entrepreneur knows what’s best for the customer, perhaps even without interaction with such a customer. So, I’ve developed the three step dance in order to help form a repeatable method of how to create a great company from an early idea.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2016

Platinum Equity said the acquisition is its second in Asia in the past 18 months. FPS supplies protective packaging, insulation and component products to the consumer electronics, automotive, medical and other end-markets, and FCS provides valves, fittings, sensors, and related components. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2015

Santa Monica-based The Mobile Majority --which recently zoomed past $50M in revenues--has acquired a Brazilian web development company called Elastic , according to the company. Elastic specializes in high frequency, low latency algorithms used for interpreting data from mobile advertising campaigns, according to the companies.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2024

I want you to all imagine that it is tomorrow morning, looking back upon today’s reporting of these past months of work by your consultants. I imagine that our report sits today on someone’s shelf, filed with others from past and from following months and years. A personal story of ignorance of good advice.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

You worry that the person leaving will begin to unload all the pent–up garbage from the past, perhaps damaging the company and causing customer defections and even employee unrest. It is human nature for those remaining to blame the departed employee for any sort of sins from the past, real or imagined. Your worry is real. .

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2013

USC said that the accelerator will be open to any USC undergraduate or graduate students or USC alumni who graduated in the past 5 years; at least one member of the founding team must be an enrolled student in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering or a USC Viterbi alumnus.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Irvine-based telematics company Spireon said today that it is expanding into India, and has hired 40 engineers in Bengaluru, to help it with its product innovation and engineering capacity. Acording to the company, the new unit--Spireon Telematics India--will be headed by Pranab Das.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The company--which develops artificial intelligence (AI) powered cybersecurity products says its customers have seen a "dramatic increase" in attack attempts over the past year. The Orange County-based company did not provide any numbers of metrics to back its statement, however. The company is led by CEO James McMurry.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And today, as the company announces their latest funding round of $125M at a $1B+ valuation , I’m still thrilled to back Density as they are growing massively with customers like Uber, Shopify, Delta, and Cisco, among many others. is changing the way companies, real estate leaders and employees think about and measure these major assets.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Southern California has seen another, big venture capital investment quarter, with companies raising $1.46 raised in 15 companies. The largest deal in the quarter was for Suja Life ($149.4M), followed by Honest Company ($100.0M) and CrowdStrike ($100.0M). in 108 deals. Orange County saw $340.3M Nationally, there were $16.3

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The argument FOR… I discovered the power of ownership early in my management career, establishing an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), once popular as incentive compensation as well as a tax write-off for corporations and even a way to slowly transfer ownership of a company from the founders to the employees.

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Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2024

And it is one of the most important lessons you can learn as a manager, board member, or advisor of a company or even a non-profit enterprise. Many of us have someone who reports directly to us and who supervises others in return. Well, this one is for you. Where did this statement come from? The meeting was tame to say the least.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The tech sector in Los Angeles has grown tremendously over the past decade. These companies reflect where L.A.'s s tech scene is headed.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The company says it has seen more than 900 percent revenue growth in the past year. ClikUp offers up a range of corporate apps, including project management, chat, docs, time management, wikis, goal tracking, dashboards, and more. Zeb Evans is CEO and Founder of ClickUp. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

Small- to medium-sized businesses may lack the resources and IT expertise to manage, protect, and upgrade their networks effectively compared to larger, more enterprise-level companies. Top Small- to Medium-Sized Company Network Challenges. Network security is a concern for virtually every company type in every industry.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 2, 2022

Cider’s App Store rankings over the past 90 days. A browse around Shein today shows the company is increasingly coming after Amazon and is unbounded by its origin in fashion. It currently ranks among the top 10 shopping apps in the App Stores of France and South Korea, app analytics firm Data.ai Data: Data.ai.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

These days, GOAT is about more than just shoes, at least according to the company. Setting aside Lu’s apparent access to a Delorean and ability to go back… to the future , the company has managed to rack up some major milestones on its way to becoming a commercial touchstone for a new generation of shoppers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

This morning we heard from Jamie Montgomery, CEO of the venerable Montgomery & Co investment bank who is at the heart of what is going on in M&A for venture backed companies. I have to admit that I was greatly encouraged by Jamie’s outlook for venture backed companies, which if true will be a welcome relief for our industry.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Los Angeles consumer tech companies and the executives who launched them have been at the forefront of some of the most successful — and ubiquitous — products and services of the past decade.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2021

Symplr, the enterprise healthcare governance, risk management, and compliance software company backed by Santa Monica-based Clearlake Capital Group, says it is acquiring another healthcare software company, HealthcareSource. The companies say that Healthcaresource is symplr's twelfth acquisition in the past six years.

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Berkonomics

MAY 11, 2023

The quest for a great management team is not a fluke, but rather a result of backward looks at the failure rate from past investments by those same angel investors and venture capitalists. Here’s a test: Several weeks ago, we published statistics of start-up and company failures. Great teams always have the advantage.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Jennifer Schwab, the founder and CEO of Entity, has built the business since 2016 on virtually no outside funding, but said that this latest financing is a precursor to the company working on its first, more traditional VC-led equity round. Entity’s growth has dovetailed with bigger edtech and “future of work” trends.

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