Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Elliott Management, a New York-based activist hedge fund, has had San Diego-based Mitek Systems in its crosshairs for months.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Email readers, continue here…] What drove my brother and me to perform, to risk so much, to skirt bankruptcy, to press on again and again? My brother, who had an artist streak where no-one could identify its roots, drew pictures that were extraordinary, and became one of the world’s one hundred most noted architects.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Airbnb, for its part, filed a press release this week confirming its plans to go public in 2020. billion in a round led by the private equity firm GPI Capital this week. Equity drops every Friday at 6:00 am PT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , and all the casts.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A new report, published this morning by Fortune, says that a "new" venture capital fund--announced last week in officially looking press releases-- appears to be linked to a convicted inmate, currently imprisoned in Lompoc. Fortune says it does not know who has been sending out press releases from the company. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

It’s why long before you ever want press coverage you need to spend time actually helping journalists, respecting their profession, taking their calls (not having your PR department screen them) and knowing what interests them. When you want press, it will come. Who cares what my equity is. I wrote about there here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Of course, that means a mindset willing to give up much more equity, and taking on a whole new level of risk. Working with the media is required, both social as well as the press, through public relations and internal channels. Increase communication, both internally and externally.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict. Boards are not appointed to be founder-friendly lapdogs for the 1–3 founders who start companies and usually own the largest equity positions in the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

More recently, the desire for extra income has become the key driver in new startups, according to the popular press. This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. It seems that more people are focused on money today.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Equity for the future? If you are the person staying how resentful will you become working your arse off for equity that your co-founder who leaves will get value from. What should the financial settlement be for the founder leaves be? What mechanisms exist for mediating if you can’t come to a consensus on these issues?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

She was lamenting that some startups simply see their PR company as merely somebody who corrals the press when you want to get some inches. She felt that her firm provides significantly more value as an advisor than simply a press shop. I would gladly part with equity (actually, I have) to work with people like her on deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Many of the growth equity firms have had outbound dialing programs for years. Growth equity firms typically target profitable businesses that are often not technical in nature. Perhaps outbound dialing / emailing programs worked well for growth equity firms in their core business. These kind of companies were seldom startups.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 31, 2013

What drove my brother and me to perform, to risk so much, to skirt bankruptcy, to press on again and again? My brother, who had an artist streak where no-one could identify its roots, drew pictures that were extraordinary, and became one of the world’s one hundred most noted architects. For us, I believe it was two important things.

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Startup Press Entrepreneur Training 153

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As a result that company is now as valuable as Invoca ( last round raised >$70 million ) so Jason ended up with two very valuable equity positions and has now raised an early-stage seed fund. Some start, some scale, some can do both.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

I can save tons of development time and I think I can buy it for all equity. It’s far easier (and sexier) to spend your time working on deals – the chase, the negotiation, the secret dinners, the combination of assets, the PRESS STORY! They always have big lovey-dovey press releases. Me: “Zero dilution.

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Technical Review Startup Press Pricing 276

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media.

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Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 103

InfoChachkie

MAY 6, 2013

These high-profile deals, which are covered extensively in the tech press and pursued by numerous investors, contribute to unrealistic expectations among rank and file entrepreneurs regarding a reasonable Series A market-rate. Expect such debt to include a modest equity kicker component, in the form of warrant coverage.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

in a new equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Sherman Oaks-based Ebyline , a startup developing an online marketplace to connect professional journalists with online publishers, has raised $5.0M According to the filing, a single investor participated in the funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media.

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Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. Ask for help reviewing your press release. Ask them to mention you to the press, speak about you on stage when they do public events, whatever. Always seek input. You may have an opinion on your market-entry strategy for Europe. Assigns tasks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

It helps to have a following of loyal advocates in the mainstream press. Don’t be afraid to give up equity to get a small share of a very large pot. Premium ventures need real traction, such as 100 million users, 10 million in revenue, or brand recognition around the world. Active interest by a multitude of investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

4. This mention of journalists and how they frame stories led to a quick discussion of how it is important to build meaningful, real relationships with the press (i.e. “be We then addressed competition in the context of SiteAdvisor and how it is important for journalists, customers, and the companies themselves.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2012

” Matt Ocko also revealed to Silicon Beat that they have been getting a lot more press inquiries due to the number of deals they were doing. 35+ Equity Partners on board. Bogue told Silicon Beat;”There is great opportunity, we feel like we’re at the front edge of a tectonic shift that will be caused by Big Data.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys.

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Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

Xconomy

OCTOBER 20, 2016

It’s closed a $40 million Series A round led by Arch, with participation from the venture arm of Johnson & Johnson, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, and several other investors. BlackThorn’s contribution to the toolkit is called Inform, a method of, as it says in a press release, “linking brain physiology to behavior.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

- Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents. How do you get press and the blogosphere talking about your product? What’s the vision?

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2010

If you want to return equity in a company, that's actually illegal, which requires you to register with the SEC, so we're not doing that right now. We're an all-inclusive site, for anybody and anyone, as long as you're not breaking the law, as long as you're returning products and services we'll let you do it. We didn't have that option.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

I’ve observed the following scenario in both of my companies and in countless others I’ve advised or invested in: - your company becomes moderately high profile in a few press articles. I’ve already made clear that I think raising equity from “strategic money&# is an oxymoron. Strategic equity – Bad idea.

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Startup Sales Slides Metrics 298

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys.

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Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 94

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

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. Should entrepreneurs have convertible debt or priced equity? Probably we all have different filters. Same thing.

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Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2016

I encourage sellers to press for escrow terms to be spelled out in the LOI. This is especially important if salaries and equity compensation are material points in the transaction. Don’t assume that if it’s not mentioned there, then it won’t be in play down the line.

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Startup Pricing Sales Summary 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

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Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 101

From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

Yet despite his ability to raise over $1 billion of private equity and to build an organization that is worth $5 billion as of this writing, Mason was shown the door. Groupon raised seven series of private equity before going public. Money raised from friends and family typically come with few constraints and very simple terms.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. If you need money to even hire a developer [means you cannot even excite one person to put in some sweat equity – not a good sign about your ability to motivate people.]. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”.

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