socalTECH

JULY 28, 2021

Electric vehicle maker Rivian is planning to spend $5 billion on a second, electric vehicle plant, according to a report from Reuters, based on a leaked document. Rowe Price, and others, and has raised more than $10.5 According to the report, Mesa, Arizona might be under consideration for the plant. billion in total funding.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 20, 2020

You know that the buyer will be crawling the offices with legal and accounting personnel, reviewing contracts, financials, governance documentation, intellectual property, leases, and much more. [Email readers, continue here…] First, should you inform your employees of the deal? When to make an internal announcement.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position. Almost always, professional investors, including angel groups and venture capitalists, also require at least one seat on the corporate board.

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2010

The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Docstoc , the online document sharing and business documents site which was founded in Santa Monica by Jason Nazar, is being shut down, according to the website. The service said that users can download their public private documents before November 30th. No reason for the shutdown was given. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. The alternatives range from giving it away for free, to pricing based on costs, to charging what the market will bear (premium pricing). In this more traditional product pricing model, the price is set at two to five times the product cost.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The stock price of Mitek (NASDAQ:MITK) rose nearly 9 percent on the news, closing at $9.75. The company’s bread and butter has been licensing software for remote document capture, such as bank checks, but it is also developing a new business in digital identification verification. That’s according to a Nov.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

Glendale-based LegalZoom has moved one step closer to the public markets, saying in a filing this morning with the SEC that it is now estimating that its initial public offering price will be between $10.00 and $12.00

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Rowe Price, plus General Atlantic, JMI Equity, and Jackson Square Ventures. The company's software is used to automate and personalize sales documents and marketing materials. The funding round came from Lightspeed Venture Partners, T. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

This is the last step of the process, where surprises in the evaluation of the management team, documentation, and personnel problems can derail the investment. Some startups do nothing to prepare for the due diligence process, assuming the people and business plan documents will speak for themselves. Personnel situation is stable.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The company says its new tool was developed and trained on extracting text from actual user generated content, and is more effective than most OCR solutions, which are really designed from extracting text from documents. Pricing on the new tool, which is now in limited beta, was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. The alternatives range from giving it away for free (like Twitter), to pricing based on costs, to charging what the market will bear (premium pricing). Portfolio pricing. Tiered or volume pricing. Feature pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Solution development and delivery.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

iRise said its new service, iRise Express, takes text documents, presentations, screenshots, and photos to help convert ideas from enterprises, small businesses, and startups into working software prototypes. Pricing on the new service was not announced.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

An Intro to the Chatbot 8 Questions with Claude [Test] Claude Pricing & Tokens Explained Claude 2 and ChatGPT: Key Differences Should You Use Claude AI? This means it can handle inputs of around 75,000 words, so businesses can submit huge reams of documentation for Claude to analyze. What is Anthropic AI? What is Claude AI?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2012

Irvine-based Kofax , the developer of business process management and document capture software, reported this morning that it has launched a new product. Kofax said it has launched Kofax DotImage Enterprise Edition, new software which enabled Internet browser portal applications for document scanning, viewing, annotating, and processing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the other hand, the biggest winners will turn out to be much larger than the prices people paid for them and this will happen faster than at any time in human history. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. You have seed rounds but you now have “pre-seed rounds.”

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

GoDaddy , the parent firm of LA''s Media Temple , is aiming at pricing its IPO on March 31st, according to documents circulating to investors as part of its IPO process. GoDaddy recently set the pricing range for its IPO at between $17.00 and $19.00 per share, and looks to list on the NYSE as GDDY.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2015

Pricing on the new products were not announced. kofax software document esignature electronic signature' Kofax said its e-signature product offers up both "click to sign" and handwritten signature capture, as well as ability to capture biometric information at the time of the signature. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

The company said the launch is a "major move" for the firm into paid-video courses, and is an evolution of the company's focus on small businesses documents. Pricing on the new courses was not announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Make sure all business processes are documented and integrated. If everyone has a different view of reality, you have no reality. Take time to review and resolve any personnel distractions.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2015

Irvine-based document capture and handling software developer Kofax launched a new product this morning, saying it has launched a mobile app to help its customer capture proof of identity documents such as driver''s licenses and passports. Pricing on the new product was not announced. Kofax said its new app supports all 50 U.S.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online professional document sharing site run by Jason Nazar , is announcing this morning that it has added around 100,000 books and 150,000 documents to the site, as part of a deal with Overdrive.com. Tags: docstoc docstore document professional publishing content ecommerce. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

You know that the buyer will be crawling the offices with legal and accounting personnel, reviewing contracts, financials, governance documentation, intellectual property, leases, and much more. First, should you inform your employees of the deal? How do you explain this if not by making a general announcement? Email readers, continue here.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

No product, even with a large opportunity, is ready to scale until you can show it working, with multiple customers paying the full price, to validate the business model. Document processes and build online training videos so new people can come online quickly and consistently. Use a minimum viable product (MVP) to validate the model.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

On Tuesday it set a $50 million price target, according to documents filed with securities regulators. Silvergate Bank has transformed itself in recent years from a typical business bank to one of the financial institutions of choice for digital currency companies.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2019

First: Is the price paid for shares by previous investors excessive, creating a post-money valuation too high for the actual value of the company? Most VC’s today are becoming enlightened (as are organized angels), correctly forcing many decisions that might have been dictated by investment documents instead to the corporate board to decide.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the developer of secure document sharing software led by Eric Jackson, said this morning that it has released a new set of Information Security (InfoSec) tools, aimed at helping companies to protect information they are sharing with external parties. Pricing on the new offering was not announced.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2010

Pasadena-based Bluebeam Software , which develops software which created PDF documents from CAD files, announced today that it has rolled out a new product called Bluebeam Q. Pricing on the new software was not disclosed. Tags: bluebeam software document.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management. Formal documentation of strategy and progress will be expected by investors. Switch your focus from product development to sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Solution development and delivery.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 14, 2018

The rules for “pledging an invoice” as collateral for borrowing call for attaching signed shipping documents showing that the goods have been picked up by the carrier, at which point the title transfers to the customer and the invoice from the company is “good”. Adding facts to the case. Decision changes? Some hold their positions.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2010

LiveOffice said it will offer the new service for a flat monthly price, including unlimited storage of documents, and also integrate those SharePoint archives into its legal discovery and compliance offerings. The firm did not disclose pricing, but said it would be priced per user, per month. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The San Diego-based biotech set a preliminary $100 million target for its IPO in documents filed with securities regulators Friday. That figure will change as the company determines how many shares it will sell and at what price. Cibus has applied for a listing on the Nasdaq exchange under the stock symbol “CBUS.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2015

If all goes well, San Luis Obispo-based Mindbody will be Southern California's newest IPO on June 19th, according to documents being circulated to potential investors in the startup's IPO. The company would at least the second, high profile exit along the Central Coast in the last year, the last being the $1.5

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2012

The startup said it will be offering its software via a monthly subscription, without any setup costs, but did not announce pricing. The software handles billable time keeping, accouting, document mangaement, ediscovery, and more. Zuber is co-founder of the law firm Zuber and Taillieu. READ MORE>>.

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