socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2011

in net proceeds from the firm's IPO last week. The firm, which debuted on the NYSE as DMD, said it will use the new funding for investments in content, international expansion, working capital, product development, sales and marketing activities, general and administrative matters and capital expenditures.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2020

Here’s the importance of that event and how it affects every productive move you make after that moment. Every dollar of gross profit falls to the bottom line, increasing net profit faster with each transaction. Just to be fair, a 5% cut in costs would also double net profit. Let’s say that your company is exactly at breakeven.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

And I am reminded of a cousin of mine who years ago sold custom window blind product to Sears, by far his largest customer, scaling his plant to produce more and more for Sears as orders flowed. One day a sixteen wheeler full of returned product drove into his loading area.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 5, 2023

If you are experiencing 20% annual growth and 20% net profit before depreciation and tax, or any combination that adds to 40% (such as 10% profit and 30% growth), you are a prime target. That’s quite a goal to achieve. But there are obvious and not–so obvious ways to make it happen, even if over time. The second rule: The 20/20 rule.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 28, 2021

You, the lonely fisherman, must weave a net to catch your fish. Should your net be large and bulky, requiring more effort and expense to weave? Or should it be small and delicate, to catch those fish that would otherwise fall through the net? TAM, SAM & SOM? So, is your (SOM) serviceable obtainable market large enough?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. They use products because the products solve a need they have. Launch a product, iterate, fail fast.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2024

Can expenses be put off until the next period to increase income, or accelerated into this period by prepayment to decrease net income? It is a bit murky if you accelerate payment for incomplete services or even for products not yet received into this year to take the deduction from income early.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management undertakes a simple exercise of calculating the increased profitability of shutting down all R&D, sales and subordinate operations, and universally notes with shock the high net profit that results – from shutting down all operations except customer service to recurring customers (as in software support operations.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. Exploit your product and service differences. You must be able to highlight these differences between your products and services, and those of your competitors.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to Kintara, it intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for funding its clinical studies, working capital and other general corporate purposes, including, but not limited to, funding acquisitions or investments in businesses, products or technologies that are complementary to the Company's businesses, products and technologies.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

Lee founded Bluebeam as a spinoff of Alliance Spacesystems, launching its first products in 2003. Members of both the Pasadena Angels and Tech Coast Angels were part of Bluebeam''s board of directors, helping Bluebeam CEO Richard Lee with the business. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Berkonomics

JUNE 20, 2019

One of the most obvious reasons mature businesses die away – when we look in the rear view mirror – is that they did not spend to renew their product or service when newer entrants into the business arrived with better products and services built upon newer technology. Should be an easy fix for companies making annual net profit.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2020

Pitch to and Network with Investors: Angels, VCs, High Net Worths, Strategic Partners and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital and counsel. View products, videos, online demos. Thursday, January 30, 2020 -- Growth Capital Conference. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases growing firms needing capital. Hot Networking Breakfast at 7:00am sharp!

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2021

According to Cohu, it sold its Printed Circuit Board Test Group (PTG) business to Mycronic AB, a Swedish company involved in development, manufacture and marketing of production equipment, including atg Luther & Maelzer GmbH and other affiliated entities and assets. The deal is worth $125M in cash.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Pitch to and Network with invvestors: Angels, VCs High Net Worths,Strategic Partners and 100 entrepreneurs needing capital. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases growing firms needing capital and counsel.View products, videos, online demos.Hot Networking Breakfast at 7:00 AM sharp! Thursday, October 24, 2019 -- Growth Capital Conference.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s the question: Sean Ellis, the marketing guru behind DropBox and other successes, advises clients that “The most important question on a survey is , ‘How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?’” He goes on to quantify the response. Most of us know of the “net promoter score” which is the ultimate survey.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 19, 2019

Thursday, July 25, 2019 -- Pitch to and Network with Investors: Angels, VCs, High Net Worths, Strategic Partners and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital and counsel. View products, videos, online demos. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases growing firms needing capital and counsel. Hot Networking Breakfast at 7:00am sharp! See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 25, 2019

Pitch to and Network with Investors: Angels,VCs, High Net Worths, Strategic Partners and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital and counsel. View products, videos, online demos. Thursday, January 31, 2019 -- Growth Capital Conference. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases growing firms needing capital. See [link].

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Conference Capital .Net Networking 100

Berkonomics

JULY 11, 2013

Every dollar of gross profit falls to the bottom line, increasing net profit faster with each transaction. A ten percent increase in revenues for a company with 50% gross margin and 5% net profit before the increase would double net profit for the period with that ten percent increase in revenue.

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.Net Sales Tool Social Network 207

socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2020

Santa Monica-based Catasys , a provider of artificial intelligence and technology-enabled healthcare products used for telehealth services, says it is seeing a surge in enrollment in its programs, as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The company says it historically sees approximately $6,500 net revenue per enrolled member.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Network with Investors: Angels, VCs, High Net Worths, Strategic Partners and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital and counsel. View products, videos, online demos. Thursday, October 25, 2018 -- Growth Capital Conference. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases growing firms needing capital. Hot Networking Breakfast at 7:00am sharp! See p://www.GCC2000.org.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2016

headquarters in Los Angeles in January, says it has deployed its products in Vermont, as part of an affordable housing development there. Sonnen said its products were used in fourteen, customized net-zero modular homes constructed by VERMOD, which combine solar power with the sonnenBatterie home battery system. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

And I found from experience – after investing in many other entrepreneurial businesses over the years – that this stage typically occurs first at about twenty employees or $3 million in net revenues (or gross profit) for most any kind of company. In future weeks, we will dissect this $3 million-dollar phenomenon separately.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to Phyn, it has linked with property and casualty insurer PURE Insurance , to offer up its Phyn Plus product as a discount to the insurance company's members. PURE Insurance provides its insurance to high net worth individuals and families. Size of the discount being provided to users was not announced. READ MORE>>.

Artificial Inteligence 145

Artificial Inteligence Belkin Technical Review .Net 145

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to PayPal, following the acquisition, Honey will continue to be headquartered in Los Angeles, and retain its brand, with Ruan and Hudson continuing to lead the team, reporting to PayPal's global consumer product and technology organization. READ MORE>>.

Southern California 133

Southern California Commerce Acquisition .Net 133

socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2017

Pasadena-based Episona has raised $4M in seed funding, to go towards expansion of its male fertility testing product, Seed, the company said last week. According to Episona, the funding came from the Pasadena Angeles, as well as other high-net worth individuals from Pasadena and San Francisco. The company is led by Dr. Alan Horsager.

Pasadena 133

Pasadena Pasadena Angels Seed Funding .Net 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

New product process. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. Product life cycles keep getting shorter and shorter, which mandates accelerated innovation cycles. Net result and reward. An entrepreneur looking for a sure thing will never innovate.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Camarillo-based Power-One , which develops both photovoltaic inverters and other poser conversion products, saw its fourth quarter results surge on demand for its photovoltaic inverter products. According to the firm Thursday, it saw net sales of $366M for its quarter ended January 2, up 157 percent from the fourth quarter of 2009.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2017

Irvine-based storage products maker Western Digital announced its second fiscal quarter results on Wednesday afternoon, saying that it saw revenues of $4.9 The company said it had operating income of $545M and net income of $235M, including charges associated with recent acquisitions. billion for the quarter, up from $3.3

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Certainly, bootstrapping is a preferred method of funding growth if it does not hold back the speed of growth or hobble the quality of product or service to the extent that better-funded competitors can overtake the business. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

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socalTECH

JULY 3, 2018

To launch the grant effort, Funraise said it is offering up grants for such hing as a year of free office space at WeWork in Southern California, $25,000 in Apple products, a $25,000 cash grant, brand marketing consultation from Ideation, a high net worth pitch to 10 philanthropists, and more. Funraise is led by CEO Justin Wheeler.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2020

Substitute the word “money” for “water” and we have an explanation for most all the reasons why successful products move from concept through early adopters through mass market. Fighting this fact will just extend the misery of accepting a result with as product or marketing failure in the marketplace.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2018

Los Angeles-based advertising exchange and technology developer OpenX said on Tuesday that its net revenues rose to $172M in 2017, as it saw 20 percent growth in its revenues for the fourth quarter. The company said it invested over $50M in R&D efforts towards its technology an product in 2017. OpenX is led by CEO Tim Cadogan.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Calabasas-based network testing equipment and software developer Ixia is reporting a win with the University of Texas at Austin this morning, saying that its products have been selected to provide end-to-end network visibility in a security effort at the school. FInancial details of the win were not announced. READ MORE>>.

Calabasas 100

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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2015

The deal--which has been rumored since March --will combined Raytheon Cyber Products with Websense. billion in net cash for majority ownership of a new company, to be made of those two parts. billion net of cash acquiired to acquire Websense. The two said that Raytheon will invest $1.57 The deal has an enterprise value of $2.3

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