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JULY 17, 2019

Looking to boost your skills and get a job in the technology industry? The company explained that its program allows local students to take courses and learn in-demand skills, in exchange for 15 percent of a students' post-graduation salary over four years. Thinkful's "Full Stack Flex" program, for example, costs $9,500 upfront.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Monrovia, California-based Xencor has set the initial offering price for its IPO, saying in a filing Thursday morning that it will offer up 10,700,000 shares of its common stock at $7.00 The company plans to trade on the NASDAQ Global Market as XNCR. The company develops biopharmaceuticals technology. and $16.00

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Woodland Hills-based BlackLine Software , the developer of accounting and financial close software, has priced its IPO, saying late Thursday evening that it will sell 8,600,000 shares of its common stock at $17.00 BlackLine priced at the high range of an already increased estimated IPO range, which was set to $16.00 earlier this week.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2019

There must be at least several companies out there right now positioning to compete with you. There are five niches you can chose when defining your positioning strategy: price, quality, service, innovation, and elegance. Pricing strategies differentiate your business. Using price creatively.

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MAY 2, 2017

Veritone's CEO is technology startup veteran Chad Steelberg. Veritone is backed by Newport Coast Investments and Acacia Research; Chad Steelberg and his brother, Ryan Steelberg, own the majority of the company. billion price tag. billion price tag. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Carlsbad-based Obalon Therapeutics , which is developing a balloon-based medical device for assisting in weight loss, has set the estimated initial IPO pricing range for its public offering, saying it now expects an initial public offering at between $14.00 if it prices at the high end of its estimated range. and $16.00

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JULY 10, 2019

The company has raised $1.9M We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Spencer Price: That's a fair question. What is Halla?

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MARCH 1, 2017

has officially priced its IPO, saying on Wednesday afternoon that it will sell 200M shares of its common stock at $17.00 billion for Snap, the company behind Snapchat , valuing the company at approximately $24 billion. Morgan, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays, Credit Suisse, and Allen & Company LLC. billion each.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. Based out of Los Angeles, Starship initially made its name, back in 2017, running pilots with delivery companies in the U.S. “99% of the time our robots have nobody involved.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Monrovia, California-based Xencor , the biopharmaceuticals technology developer headed by Bassil Dahiyat, has set its IPO pricing range, saying today in a regulatory filing that it is expecting to price its IPO at between $14.00 The company is looking to trade as XNCR on the NASDAQ Global Market. and $16.00

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

A financial buyer will analyze your numbers, past and forecast, to the n’th degree, and calculate the price based upon the result, after carefully comparing your numbers with those of others in the same and similar industries. There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

for Snips, subject to purchase price adjustments and holdbacks. Sonos said that the deal--which includes the employees at Snips, along with its IP--will "elevate the voice experience" at the company. Snips has over 50 employees, and is based in Paris, France; the company was founded in 2013. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Irvine-based Axonics Modulation Technologies , a developer of medical devices for treating urinary and bowel dysfunction, has set its estimated IPO range, ahead of its expected IPO this week. The company has filed to trade as AXNX on the Nasdaq Global Market. and $16.00 and $16.00 READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ventura-based The Trade Desk , which operates an online advertising exchange, priced its IPO late Tuesday evening, saying that it will sell 4,666,677 shares of its Class A common stock at $18.00 The company will begin trading today on the NASDAQ Global Market as TTD. and $18.00 and $16.00 per share on August 31st. and $18.00

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Berkonomics

MAY 9, 2024

Conversely, a fast-growing industry lifts most all good participants, making excellent companies excel even more and grow even faster, like a small plane flying at 150 knots with a 75-knot tailwind. Some great ideas just cannot be made into a product at a reasonable enough price to attract customers. How large is your total market?

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JULY 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based 3D movie technology provider RealD said late Thursday evening that it has priced its IPO, offering 12.5M The IPO priced above the firm's initial estimated IPO pricing of between $13.00 William Blair & Company, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and BMO Capital Markets Corp.

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MARCH 20, 2017

Santa Barbara-based optical switching equipment maker CALIENT Technologies has launched a new, optical switching product into the market, called the CALIENT S320 Optical Circuit Switch. The company said the new switch is aimed at being used as a low latency optical us for data centers. Pricing on the new product was not announced.

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APRIL 1, 2015

GoDaddy , the provider of Internet domain name and related hosting services--and which has a significant LA presence due to its ownership of LA''s Media Temple --priced its IPO late Tuesday evening at $20.00 The price is above its initial estimated pricing range of $17.00 GoDaddy is based in Arizona. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap --in what will be Southern California's biggest technology IPO, ever--is expected to price its IPO on Wednesday night, and start trading on Thursday morning. The company has set an estimated IPO offering range of between $14.00 and $16.00 The IPO will potentially value Snap at more than $22.3

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

They might not actively “collude&# and say “let’s collectively keep the price down&# but in the resulting discussion pricing information will flow – whether intentional or not. They’re not in search of price fixing or collusion, they’re in search of diligence information about the company.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2023

Conversely, a fast-growing industry lifts most all good participants, making excellent companies excel even more and grow even faster, like a small plane flying at 150 knots with a 75-knot tailwind. Some great ideas just cannot be made into a product at a reasonable enough price to attract customers. How large a total market?

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2017

Santa Barbara-based optical switching equipment maker CALIENT Technologies has launched its optical switching product into a new market. The company said the switch is aimed at being used as a low latency optical us for data centers. The company said the switch is aimed at being used as a low latency optical us for data centers.

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JULY 11, 2016

Impinj , a developer of RFID technology which has engineering offices in both Rancho Cordova and Newport Beach, has set the estimated IPO pricing range for its stock at between $12.00 per share, the company said in a filing this morning. and $14.00

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APRIL 8, 2013

Calabasas-based audio and surround sound technology provider DTS announced a new product today, aimed at the online streaming of audio. According to DTS, its new DTS-HD Layered Autio technology is aimed at online media services, and provides adaptive, bit-rate audio streaming from a single encoding. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Calabasas-based audio technology developer DTS is being acquired by San Jose-based Tessera Technologies , in a deal worth approximately $850M in cash, the companies announced today. According to the two companies, Tessera will acquire DTS by paying $42.50 READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2021

“Intrapreneurs” are entrepreneurs inside big companies, who do corporate spin-offs. A spin-off is merely a startup spawned by a mature parent (company), and conventional logic would dictate that it has a survival advantage over the lowly startup. Mingle and learn from the startup culture and new technology – without losing control.

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MARCH 1, 2017

A report in the New York Times on Tuesday says that Snap has been working on drone technology , to take overhead videos and photographs of its users. The NYT cited "three people briefed on the project" in its report, which comes on the eve of pricing on Snap's IPO. Snap, in its IPO filing, now calls itself a "camera company".

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. Are we in a bubble?”

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

Avoid a simple pricing mistake which could sink your startup. Technology buyers long ago learned this game and routinely stall their purchases until the end of the quarter. Vendors often respond by discounting their prices at the 11th hour, in the hopes a lower price will spur a purchase. The “D” word - Discounts.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2020

Ligand Pharmaceuticals plans to acquire recombinant protein therapeutics maker Pfenex for $438 million, the companies announced Monday. The larger company agreed to pay $12 per share for Pfenex (NYSE American: PFNX )—a 57 percent premium to its closing price Monday. The company reported revenues of about $120.3

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

Is there a way to use technology to help make it more clear what medical procedures cost, and help patients�and doctors�better manage expectations? We spoke with Dr. Vish Banthia , CEO and founder of ZendyHealth, to hear more about how his company I trying to bring price comparison to common medical, dental, and cosmetic procedures.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based SteelHouse , a promising ad technology company backed by Qualcomm Ventures, Daher Capital, Baroda Ventures, Greycroft Partners, and Rincon Venture Partners, has rolled out a new advertising technology today. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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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). There is a mythology amongst some LPs (funds that invest in VCs) and some VCs that “entry price doesn’t matter – only investing in the absolute best entrepreneurs.” So entry price matters a lot. ” That’s b t.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Santa Monica-based electric vehicle subscription company Autonomy said today that it is dangling up a "limited-time offer" to get people to subscribe to its Tesla Model 3's. According to the company, it will let people pay $3,000 down and $450 a month for the first 12 months for the Tesla EV, in its "Cyber Monday" sale.

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JULY 22, 2014

San Diego-based OneRoof Energy , the solar energy services financing and solar installation company led by David Field, said today that it has tied with "digital services" company Elevate. Elevate provides home services, ranging from smart home, digital phone, broadband, and in-home technology support services. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 8, 2013

Aliso Viejo-based Corent Technology , the developer of software which makes it easier for companies to port their software to the software-as-a-service model, said Tuesday that it has released a new product. Pricing on the software was not announced. Corent is led by Feyzi Fatehi. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization.

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