TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2020

The pair made a mix of early- and late-stage investments in Los Angeles-based companies like LegalZoom, Scopely, Art of Sport, The Honest Company, RingDNA, FocusMotion, DyshApp and Represent. Last year, the investment firm expanded with a $1.7 You will be missed, @kobebryant. pic.twitter.com/FzhNl5ndau.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The most striking example was the one hundred million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash.

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Berkonomics

MAY 13, 2021

The five resources boards and investors can add to a company. There are five types of resources a great board or active investor can add to a company. There is a fine line between loading the company with too much debt and diluting the shareholders too early with additional equity investments. Time as a corporate asset.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] One day Tom came to me and said, “I want to transfer to marketing. Five years later, I received an email from Tom. An email to preserve and show. In one of the most understated several word paragraphs in history, I responded by email, “Gee, Tom. Good to hear from you.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2019

We’ll cover what information you’ll expect to provide, your range of expected values and amounts of investment to expect. Email readers, continue here…] Most VC’s look for a 10x opportunity – that is – a ten times increase in the valuation from investment to liquidity event. The post-investment value would be $4,000,000.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy, both founder and co-CEO of the Los Angeles–based company, started Ghost in 2021 after previously working together at Four Five Group, a men’s apparel business. Ghost itself closed on a Series A equity round of $13 million, along with $7 million in debt, in June. Syrup Tech bags $6.3M

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Strategic partner” investors: If you can find a strategic partner willing to invest in your enterprise, consider it a blessing.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I asked him five important questions, which he answered, and I’ve summarized below. Since I am a proponent of using equity as a tool and he is so much opposed, this week it is his turn to make the case. So here goes: How would I find companies willing to license my intellectual property or to invest in a royalty stream from licenses?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I asked him five important questions, which he answered, and I’ve summarized below. Since I am a proponent of using equity as a tool and he is so much opposed, this week it is his turn to make the case. So here goes: How would I find companies willing to license my intellectual property or to invest in a royalty stream from licenses?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. startup control equity bootstrapping Rich Christiansen business'

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Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2014

It is rare when one person starts a company, supplies all the funding, and shares no management tasks or equity with others, and still grows the company to any significant size, worthy of a multi-million dollar opportunity to cash out at exit. Email readers, continue here.]

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Taking money from professional investors such as angels or VCs usually requires that you agree to seek an exit for those investors in your plan, often targeting five to seven years as the ideal period for growth before a liquidity event. For some, that comfort is worth forgoing building high equity value.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 30, 2014

There are five types of resources a great board can add to a company. Email readers, continue here.] Money: A board of directors is primarily responsible for oversight in the use of and the raising of money for the company. Use your board to help you to navigate through control over these five resources.

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2011

Email readers continue here.] Five years later, I received an email from Tom. I keep that email in my leather note portfolio, carrying it with me wherever I go, pulling it out often to read portions to audiences during my workshops, or just for fun to fellow private equity investor friends. Good to hear from you.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 26, 2017

The most striking example was the one hundred–million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Some relatives believe that a family bond is an insurance policy, and that all investments or notes will always be repaid, no matter what the circumstance. Consider whether the family member being asked to invest has the capacity to walk away “happily” from a lost cause.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In reality, the opportunities are greater for starting with a micro-business , ideally from your special expertise or passion, with fewer than five employees, and just enough sales to comfortably support you and your team. Just because you want to start a business doesn’t mean you are entitled to outside equity, loans, or crowdfunding.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Despite the proliferation of entrepreneurial courses within Business Administration programs, business schools are essentially vocational training grounds for consultants and investment bankers. Five reasons many MBAs struggle at startups are as follows: 1. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed. I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have started five companies. It was founded three years ago, and hadn't been succeeding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. If you don’t believe in your bones that you’re amazing then it’s no wonder you don’t want to sell them on making the investment.” Sometimes?—?best

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead of equity, the company is aimed at profiting profitable small businesses with business debt funding from investors, to help those businesses grow and get to the next level. Why did you decide to focus on debt, not equity? Ethan Senturia: If you''re a company, you can come to our site, give us a call, or shoot us an email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2018

According to the same sources, another 38 percent get support from family and friends, so that leaves only five percent who rely on crowdfunding, banks, angels, or VCs. The old cold call or broadcast email to anyone who has “investor” in their bio just doesn’t work. Offer a realistic equity percentage to generate interest.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

We prepared a presentation to go out to the private equity community, to investigate opportunities to put money into Language Weaver. I'm happy to say, that at the turn of the year we had several offers for investment, both from local and Silicon Valley oriented funds. We were fortunate to have all of those scenarios to consider.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. Don’t think about the exit.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

That's important, because it allows marketers to re-invest and give credit to that marketing event, so they can buy more of it and get more customers. It worked so well, in fact, that venture capitalists actually came to visit us, looked at what we had, and wanted to invest because of that technology. Jeff Zwelling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

The best form of this right now is email, and even then, that's through a one-size-fits-all email. That was a rocket ride as well, and that took us to a top 10 website, and NBC took an equity steak in the company. That's currently very ineffective. I then moved on to Infoseek, which at the time was just a search engine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. Don’t think about the exit.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

Note: This is part I of a five part series. Stone Soup will also instruct your child that one of the most effective techniques for acquiring an investment is to not ask for money. If you are able to self-fund your venture, then you might be able to eventually acquire an institutional investment by initially not asking for money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Here are the top five tips to building an advisory board with a high level of engagement: Take your time. Adopt the following rules: don’t put your advisors names on your website, don’t “pitch” them anything (services or investment), and only seek advisors with no personal relationship. Eventually, companies stop talking to advisors.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: The Coachella Valley has been the ideal location to start our business because it has five separate water agencies serving a population of over 300,000. Most of the equity investments in iHub companies are coming from outside the region. What makes the Coachella Valley an ideal place to start a company?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. 7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. What: Spotlight Series Event. RSVP: AGENDA.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”. equity debate. More tiers = more complication = more confusion.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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