My hands were trembling as I was faxing eighty pages of the agreement over to the lawyers in New York City," Jason Cohen said about what it was like to finalize the sale of the company he founded, Smart Bear. You can also discuss this post on HN. --Andrew "My Andrew "My Even though he was nervous about the [...]

The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many customers at this one? His first big leap into entrepreneurship was launching Optiwave, a fiber optic consulting company. The simple answer is he learned to sell. This program will show you how he did that and what YOU can learn from his experience.

Bob is a Director and long-time member of the Pasadena Angels, has been investing in early stage companies for 5 years, and has been held numerous “C” level positions at private and publicly traded companies. To set the stage, as an early stage investor, I look to invest in a “perfect storm” company.  So for an example lets assume a $500k investment in a company with Following on the heals of last week’s post from Andrea Belz, we have another guest blogger, Bob Aholt. Bob also teaches graduate level finance courses at Antioch University.   By Bob Aholt

know that, if you absorb the lessons from his experience, you'll avoid making similar mistakes as you build your company. The company underestimated how hard it is to get customers You can never lose sight of, "Okay, what's our company supposed to be in the first place?" Somehow, as Luke Burgis raced to build his business, he ended up selling fitness bars, cereal, pet supplements and "sexual enhancement" products. At the same time, he found himself running an online message board and a YouTube-like video site.

What would you do if you built a tremendously successful internet company and sold it? interviewed Ryan Scott to find out what he did after he sold Netcreations, the email list management company that he co-founded. (Curious think there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: The “wannabes,” who try to build companies so they never have to work again. I Curious about how Netcreations was built?

Jeff Fluhr and his friend from school got together and created a company called StubHub which they built up and sold to eBay. But, you know, I think it wasn't until after my first real company StubHub that people, I think, thought of me in that light. So I contacted the owner of the company and proposed to him that I be a distribution outlet for their product in retail channels outside of the Massachusetts area and began to help that company get In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or

As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. But where do the software development companies in Southern California congregate? Part of the reason is that when I look at the CTOs, I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database

Lee LeFever had a talent for explaining tough concepts, so he built a company that makes and sells explainer videos. Common Craft, the business he founded and runs with his wife, has been used by companies like Google and Twitter to help potential customers understand their new products. I invited him to Mixergy because I'm fascinated by how companies make money by selling content in a world where... ...Tags: I Tags: Intervie

IROs tend to be the last holdouts within a company’s communication teams to embrace changes in the communications process.  m going to show you two ways IROs can become the company hero based on both of those challenges. IROs have many, significant responsibilities relating to the health and welfare of the company.  During the last year, I’ve spoken to numerous investor relations officers (IROs) on the topic of social media and investor relations.  Holding out is usually blamed on two reasonable excuses:

This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Getting Your Internet Company Bought”. Shawn created the original concept for Demand Media and executed the simultaneous acquisitions of eNom, eHow and several domain-name portfolios which launched the company. Since co-founding the company with Richard Rosenblatt in May 2006, Shawn and his team have sourced, negotiated and completed over 30 acquisitions. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation revealing the metrics and measurements for Mergers and Acquisitions in the online space with one of the best experts in the field. We are joined this month by Shawn Colo , the Co-Founder and Head of M&A at Demand Media .