TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

Ghost itself closed on a Series A equity round of $13 million, along with $7 million in debt, in June. The company raised $5 million in equity last November from Equal Ventures and Eniac to give it $28 million in total equity and debt funding. The equity will go toward hiring more talent to join Ghost’s 25-person team.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2021

Email marketing software developer Constant Contact, which is backed by Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital, has named a new CEO and CFO this morning. Vella was most recently CEO of Information Builders, and also has served at Microsoft, GE Capital, HP Enterprise and Xerox.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2023

Every day a deadline for development, rollout, marketing campaign or even corporate reorganization is missed, we burn fixed overhead – money. Time management: [Email readers, continue here…] Companies have gone out of business from a lack of time management, especially when additional capital is not available when most needed.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The funding came from private equity investment provider LLR Partners. According to LLR Partners, its investment will be used by Edlio to support its market expansion, via organic growth and acquisitions. Size of the investment was not announced. Canada, and Latin America. Canada, and Latin America. Edlio is led by CEO Ali Arsan.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

Tom almost always had ideas to contribute, particularly about marketing programs and opportunities. 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. Hello again, Dave,” it began.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 6, 2020

Some of us build our businesses to be lifestyle creations, destined to provide for our families but not necessarily as creators of great equity upon an eventual sale. Your brand and market recognition? Email readers, continue here…] . Envision your end game when you start. Would it be your intellectual property?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 10, 2021

With enough revenues, the young company can more easily raise equity funds, borrow money, hire top talent, and gain valuable publicity. Working on that issue alone can drain a CEO, given its many incarnations – in marketing, sales, finding efficiencies, cutting efforts that are of lesser value, and more.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] We are not taught to think this way, but rather to find the month in which we break even in our plan, then calculate the accumulated losses to that point, add all the cash needed for investment in fixed assets, and end up with the amount needed to finance the business through equity or debt financing.

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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. Creative marketing. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. Don’t think about the exit. Marty Zwilling.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

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. These are your candidates, because they are companies already absorbing much or all the marketing expense necessary to make sales of your invention. Do I understand the royalty replaces the need for equity investors ?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] How do you pay a coach? Some charge by the hour, making themself available much as an attorney, keeping track of hours spent on phone calls and emails with you. And some will willingly work for stock options, an amount to be negotiated based upon time spent and stage of corporate development.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

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. These are your candidates, because they are companies already absorbing much or all the marketing expense necessary to make sales of your invention. Do I understand the royalty replaces the need for equity investors ?

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

First, few startups can use that much money today with all the virtual services available and increasingly inexpensive methods of development, prototyping and marketing. Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing. How does this comport with “skin in the game?”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Here is the warning: The execution of equity allocations and of a good incentive program using equity is often mismanaged, damaging the corporate capitalization structure and even affecting the outcome of subsequent investment into the company. … Equity is divided between the founders and the business begun. Here are some rules.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Berkonomics

MAY 13, 2021

Expert help and good planning can reduce the time to market, saving cash in the process. There is a fine line between loading the company with too much debt and diluting the shareholders too early with additional equity investments. Money is what entrepreneurs expect from us. Relationships are often as valuable as an investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I recently got an email from a friend who had been approached by a well known VC. He sent me an email asking whether the approach was real and whether he should take it seriously. Here is the email he received (reprinted without names with his permission). Why do VCs send generic outbound emails like this?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. I often send the introduction email and then a second email to the reference to say, “This reference is really important to me.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Email updates frequently. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Email readers, continue here…] Take for example, solving key technology problems that prevent a product from shipment, or from scaling to large production. With enough revenues, the young company can more easily raise equity funds, borrow money, hire top talent, and gain valuable publicity.

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Berkonomics

MAY 1, 2014

I sometimes counsel CEOs to consider consulting to their prospective customers or in their industry while they are simultaneously developing their product for market. Email readers, continue here.] These are just some of the ways to creatively raise funds without offering equity or taking on new debt. Raising money'

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Expert help and good planning can reduce the time to market, saving cash in the process. 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. Extending the Runway book available at www.berkus.com. There is a fine line between.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2020

Thousands of companies have indicated interest in the last several days,” a spokesperson wrote in an email. “Due to the high volume, each company’s randomized notification of the ability to apply did not appear all at the same time,” a company spokesperson wrote in an email. We are going to lose 2.5x

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Berkonomics

JULY 24, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] We are not taught to think this way, but rather to find the month in which we break even in our plan, then calculate the accumulated losses to that point, add all the cash needed for investment in fixed assets, and end up with the amount needed to finance the business to breakeven through equity or debt financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. People who believe the former believe that you should see the market demand before too many people know you’re “in market.” If a VC “ghosts you” (i.e.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. We went out to market to LPs. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. ”

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

First, few startups can use that much money today with all of the virtual services available and increasingly inexpensive methods of development, prototyping and marketing. Email readers, continue here.] Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing.

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2011

Tom almost always had ideas to contribute, particularly about marketing programs and opportunities. 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. All of us depend upon you. Hello again, Dave,” it began.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

How do you reinvent your startup-focused on in-person, grass roots marketing-in the face of a global pandemic? We have the data where those universities are, we have the human resources and curated marketing labor. No different than Uber has drivers, Field Day has marketers. Marketing budgets are thawing out and opening up.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 20, 2015

The company provides identity theft protection, and took a large round from a private equity firm, which returned about eight times investment in cash to the early angels, and still left them with all their stock in the deal, an outstanding result. It had refined its offerings to the point where its service was the clear market leader.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

I see it on email even more. ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice. Todd Gitlin is one of the best executive recruiters the technology & startup market in Los Angeles. Who cares what my equity is. ” I see it on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I usually judge people’s reactions not by the comments section of my post (where people are a little bit more polite so you get selective bias) but by the private emails I get. Still, I’ll bet that functionally you divide areas of competence like sales & marketing, product, engineering, biz dev, etc. and my favorite].

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Product Marketing Manager , TigerText. We provide healthcare establishments a much-needed and required HIPAA compliant solution that offers security, accountability and productivity that SMS text-messaging and communication platforms such as email cannot. TigerText Inc. is the #1 leader in secure, real-time messaging.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. achieved a market cap of $1 billion or more. Jeb Spencer is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of TVC Capital, a growth equity firm focused on the investment in and acquisition of mission critical software companies.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

What product, market testing have you done so far, if any? You will get a response via email to schedule a time to talk. I'm looking for free (equity only) development, should I contact you? See Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers for more on this. What do you see as you next big milestone? Are there specs?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our big news as a company was deciding to "transform" Transform Group itself - moving from the top PR firm in the blockchain world to a blockchain company that has a division that now has represented 31 percent of the entire market cap of the nearly $600 billion crypto landscape (excluding bitcoin). Aside from $50,000 bitcoin?

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