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74 Articles match "2007","Capital"
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Joe Fisher: Back about three years ago, Caltech took some of the intellectual property involved with this to an event, where once a year they invite venture capital groups to come in. As a result, in 2007, our three lead investors -- including CMEA Capital, U.S. Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. This week, the firm announced that it was renaming itself Contour Energy (www.contourenergy.com)--and said it was ready to talk about what its battery technology
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
IPO successes (as measured by the market capitalization at the close of the first day of trading) include Entropic ($500M IPO in 2007), Divx ($625M IPO in 2006), eToys ($7.8BM IPO in 1999) and Xylan ($2.3B The data demonstrate the vitality of the region as a lucrative area for venture capital investment, especially in the last 10 years as online services have come to represent a new area for innovation", Funk said.
The 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.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Jason Nazar: We've worked on the company for three years, and the site went live in November of 2007. We've scaled to revenue very quickly, and we're running a really capital efficient business. Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Last week, I was on a panel with other investors discussing the “do’s� and “don’ts� of angel and venture capital investing some one from the audience fired a series of intriguing compounded questions � why are the VC’s so illusive?, So let’s talk about the truth about the Angles and the Venture Capital firms; here is a few points to start with: 1- Looking for Money Vs. why don’t they have all their information available? Why don’t they disclose how they come up with their valuations?
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Sunday, October 7, 2007
I've been reading or hearing quite a bit about how startups these days don't take nearly as much capital to create as they used to. What used to cost $1M now takes $100K. If that's actually true, then it creates New Rules Of Technology VC . In this post RWW talks about some of the new kind of approaches to funding: Y Combinator is creating tech companies with a tiny (10-20K) seed investment; Charles
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Monday, June 18, 2007
There is just too much to say about the topic and I have been warned about being too verbose with lengthily postings so this is a 3 posting series. Following is the first posting: Some Good reasons to Bootstrap 1- Bootstrapping ensures that you build your business on legitimate, real world value propositions. You truly focused on customer value from day one.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
I got the following question from an entrepreneur and I thought I share it with everyone. “Why do many startups actually fail? In my observation, i have felt that there are many a startups which have a brilliant idea, a genuine team to execute that and also a good support for the product they intend to build, but still the companies fail to break even. I
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
My advice to this group is there a lot of smart people out there and that it is “doing� that makes money and not “hiding� – To capitalize on a good idea you must first share it. The Enforcer Well, these folks are skillful, mechanical and hard workers. In my days, I have met with many many entrepreneurs. We have agreed and disagreed on things, learned from each other, and experienced disappointments and successes together.
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Speaking to entrepreneurs everyday has lead me to believe that most entrepreneurs really like to build a Life Style business and are not in tune with what motivates Venture Capital firms or Angels to invest. So what the heck is a Life business? 1. You build it to operate for many years to come 2.
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Monday, June 18, 2007
There is just too much to say about the topic and I have been warned about being too verbose with lengthily postings so this is a 3 posting series. Following is the first posting: The big picture of bootstrapping Bootstraping, in my opinion, is not about conserving cash or paying out of your credit cards (although those may become ways to achieve it). Bootstrapping is about taking the right action at the right time.
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Saturday, June 30, 2007
There is just too much to say about the topic and I have been warned about being too verbose with lengthily postings so this is a 3 posting series. Following is the third and last posting: So when is bootstraping not a good idea? Almost never! However … there are times that injection of external funding is crucial to the delivery of value and no revenues can be generated unless significant investments are made.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
These days almost every business plan has a viral marketing component to it. How do you get customers? Viral marketing to the rescue; there seems to be an “understanding gap�. I have made it a point in the past few weeks to ask every entrepreneur that brings up the issue “what do you mean by viral marketing?�
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
I am quickly learning that writing a blog requires a lot of discipline. You need to be thoughtful and quick - My apologies for being a slow learner - I’ll get there. It would be great, however, if you could help me with topics – what interests you? Here are some topics I am looking at: Weekly tips on effective execution, this is not a how to work
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