The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

It has annual sales exceeding $100 million and, since it was founded, has some in excess of 4.5 Ninety percent of its business comes from online sales. Hawkers corporate partners include PayPal, PlayStation, Ford, the Los Angeles Lakers and Mercedes Benz. million sunglasses units. Hawkers has thrived online.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Our fund (Upfront Ventures) recently returned >1x an entire $200 million fund just selling small minatory in secondary sales while still holding most of our stock for an ultimate public market exits. At Upfront we have always done 40% of our investing in Greater Los Angeles and it’s precisely for this reason.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Outreach is a sales engagement platform that was funded by the Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. In total, they are valued at more than $100 billion today. #1:

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. Side note: LA seems to have had some success in mega deals led by private equity firms as evidenced by DemandMedia and Chris DeWolf’s latest company backed by more than $20 million in private equity. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

It has annual sales exceeding $100 million and, since it was founded, has some in excess of 4.5 Ninety percent of its business comes from online sales. Hawkers corporate partners include PayPal, PlayStation, Ford, the Los Angeles Lakers and Mercedes Benz. million sunglasses units. Hawkers has thrived online.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

While private equity has a history in the U.S. that dates back over a century , the “boom or bust” period of the 1980s to early 1990s is considered the period that marks the rise in private equity and venture capital funding as we know it today. Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake, via the Los Angeles Times.

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2012

Currently Los Angeles is in what could be a startup renaissance or an apocalypse, dependent on how long the hype goes on. If more people like Seth step up with their qualified voice, they could help save us from or lessen the big crash coming. I’ve been harping about this a lot (too much?) for over a year: [link].

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Kupietzky has spoken extensively on the value of domain names and has appeared on CNN and CNBC and has been quoted by numerous print sources including Investors Business Daily , The New York Times and The Los Angeles Business Journal.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Most small and mid-sized businesses fight an ongoing, Sisyphean battle with money - pushing the cash flow boulder up the hill month after month, only to see payrolls, rents, insurance, materials and marketing & sales expenses drag bank balances down again and again. Model (Business).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The most interesting company to present was The Coop , a modern, design-focused, indoor-outdoor children’s playspace in Los Angeles. As O’Leary said, this isn’t an equity investment. By all accounts, the Coop is quite successful. This is a loan with a 15% warrant attached at a zero strike price.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

As I discussed in my recent post “ How To Hire a Superstar Engineer for Your Startup ,” startups may not give employees “sweat equity” in lieu of any ongoing cash payment/salary; nor may startups defer wages and other compensation. And simply calling a worker a “consultant” or “independent contractor” in an agreement is irrelevant.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

Before I jump in and share the secrets of how to impress angel investors, I should tell you what an angel investor is, and how they differ from venture capitalists. An angel investor is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Later on, we’ll dive into research that shows how this type of imagery can increase your sales. Some of the leading ecommerce retailers of luxury goods such as SSENSE, and Mr Porter only have sales about twice per year. We once had a client that would have sales bi-weekly, and this created a huge issue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2020

I mean, there’s plenty of business in every sports franchise at every level from the corporate sales and the suites or the tickets to the marketing and on and on. On the end you’re going to be measured by your wins and losses, your final sales numbers, your goals. I mean it is a sort of odd shaped business, isn’t it?

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I sold the first company I founded, a computer technology integrator, to private equity in 2002. The money from the sale went into a temporary bank account my partner and I set up. (We I saw the article in The New York Times about the sale of your company. Here’s the problem. We’ll get to that in a moment. Hi, this so-and-so.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. It was becoming a business model destined to fail. 10-Passion.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A COO based in the US would probably demand $200K+ a year and equity options. I live in Los Angeles. We were able to generate $20M in sales in our first year because of our ability to find, train, and retain talent. Due to the differences in living standards, he’s happy with a salary that I can afford to pay.

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