A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. After all, before the house of cards inevitably tumbles, private equity investors get a tidy return. If you know you’re building a flash-in-the-pan, like a cool mobile app, than that’s fun too of course! Growth is necessary, but not sufficient.

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. And look, it was a scary time.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. TechCrunch article.

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Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The Petah Tikva-based company was founded in 2005. an Israeli provider of flash caching and virtualization software and hardware. through its GE Healthymagination Fund, an equity fund of GE Capital and GE Healthcare. ATX BUYS ISRAELI TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS START-UP. ATX Networks Inc. for $26 million.

Flash 94

Flash Private Placement Los Angeles 94

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The Petah Tikva-based company was founded in 2005. an Israeli provider of flash caching and virtualization software and hardware. through its GE Healthymagination Fund, an equity fund of GE Capital and GE Healthcare. ATX BUYS ISRAELI TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS START-UP. ATX Networks Inc. for $26 million.

Flash 60

Flash Private Placement Los Angeles 60

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Argonaut Private Equity. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53