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22 Articles match "2005","Venture Capital"
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States.
Meebo - Founded in 2005, Meebo enables real-time social interactions with instant messaging and group chat at meebo.com and on partner sites across the Web.
The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! We We have a jammed packed schedule while we are out there and you will be able to follow along with this special
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. The study, conducted by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners , includes data from socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database , Dow Jones/VentureSource, and Greg Martin of Redpoint Ventures .
Funk Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...
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Monday, October 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice ” but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.” He’s been at it since 2005. We We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side.
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If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this.
The real irony of the market thaw is that the biggest symbol of the freeze as I mentioned in my last
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
This week's release of a list of their "Top 100" venture capitalists by AlwaysOn -- based roughly on number and dollar amount of successful M&A and IPO deals between October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2009--seems to have skipped local Southern California venture capitalists, with only one Southern California VCs listed. According to the list, just Jim Gauer of Palomar Ventures , made the cut. AlwaysOn highlighted Gauer's involvement in firms AlterPoint, Network Physics, RealOps, and Cerebra in the rankings. The list came as news that Forbes is dropping its "Midas
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Matt Coffin , the founder of Los Angeles-based LowerMyBills and an active angel investor in Southern California, has joined venture capital firm Split Rock Partners as a Venture Advisor, the venture firm said this week. Split Rock was an investor in LowerMyBills, which Coffin sold to Experian in 2005 for $380M. Split Rock, which is based in Minneapolis, said that Coffin will work with the firm to identify promising investment opportunities, as well as to help advise its existing portfolio companies. Coffin also has invested as an angel in Billshrink, Buscape,
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
OVP Venture Partners , a venture firm in Oregon and Washington, is highlighting its latest "missed deal" in Aliso Viejo-based Networks In Motion . NIM, which was acquired last week for $170M, had been backed by venture firms Redpoint Ventures, Mission Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures. According to OVP's site, it was approached in 2005 by the CFO of a former portfolio company, who had made money for OVP is known for its list of "missed deals" in its portfolio, and recently added Networks In Motion to its missed deal for its 2001-era Fund 6. OVP said
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
United Sample is the latest business effort of goZing.com founders Matthew Dusig and Gregg Lavin; Dusig and Lavin successfully started and sold goZing to Greenfield Online in 2005. Tags: survey sample united online venture capita Los Angeles-based United Sample, which operates online survey and sampling services for the market research industry, announced today that it has raised $3M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Greycroft Partners, and also included prior investor DFJ Frontier.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. The study, conducted by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners , includes data from socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database , Dow Jones/VentureSource, and Greg Martin of Redpoint Ventures .
Funk Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Southern California's venture capital numbers for Q4 slipped, as did numbers nationally, according to numbers released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource. According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2 Nationally, venture capital investments slipped 30%, to only $5.5 billion--that drop represented the weakest quarter in SoCal in 5 years, according to Dow Jones. However, Southern California's IT industry actually saw an increase in investments,
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Reshef is the owner and chairman of Israeli education firm the Kidum Group, which he sold in 2005 to learning firm Kaplan. Pasadena-based Cramster.com, an online community focused on students and homework, said today that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Mr. Shai Reshef, who the
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