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MAY 20, 2013

San Diego-based security software developer Websense announced this morning that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Websense said Vista Equity Partners will pay $24.75 websense merger acquisition security software vista equity partners private' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

BigMachines , a developer of cloud-based software for product configuration, pricing, quoting, and proposals, has scored funding from San Diego private quity investor JMI Equity. The funding round came from Vista Equity Partners, JMI Equity, as well as new investors Salesforce.com.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Me: At what price? Him: It wasn’t priced. So you did raise with a price. It’s just a maximum price. Him: But when I raised my first round we didn’t know how to price the company. How will you price the next round? That way you don’t have a max or min price but you have a price.

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JUNE 27, 2012

San Diego-based ServiceNow , the developer of software-as-a-service for enterprise IT management, is expected to price its IPO Thursday, as the first, technology-focused IPO since the Facebook debacle. The firm, which has set initial pricing range of its IPO at between $15.00 per share, is backed by JMI Equity and Sequoia Capital.

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JULY 25, 2012

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , the developer of CMOS, RF integrated circuits, has set an estimated pricing range for its its IPO. According to a filing by the firm this morning, it is estimating a IPO price of between $14.00 and $16.00 The firm is offering 5,500,000 shares of its stock in its IPO.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said late Tuesday evening that it has priced its IPO, as well as increased its IPO offering size, and will sell 8,900,000 shares of its common stock at $17.00 The firm's investors include Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Morgan Stnaley & Co.,

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Here is the warning: The execution of equity allocations and of a good incentive program using equity is often mismanaged, damaging the corporate capitalization structure and even affecting the outcome of subsequent investment into the company. … Equity is divided between the founders and the business begun.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Marlin Equity Partners is acquiring Tellabs , a provider of mobile backhaul, optical networking, and other products for the telecommunications networking market, in a deal worth $891 million. According to Marlin Equity, it will pay $2.45 According to Marlin Equity, it will pay $2.45

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JUNE 28, 2012

San Diego-based ServiceNow priced its IPO on Thursday, at $18.00 ServiceNow is venture backed by JMI Equity, Sequoia Capital, and Greylock Partners. per share, above its estimated initial offering range of $15.00 The firm is set to trade as NOW on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.

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JUNE 19, 2012

San Diego-based ServiceNow has set the pricing range for its IPO, saying today that it anticipates an initial public offering price for the firm at between $15.00 The firm is backed by JMI Equity and Sequoia Capital. and $17.00

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The most striking example was the one hundred million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash. Using this technique with a supplier And how about a product purchase where you cannot come to a successfully negotiated price with your supplier? What power!

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AUGUST 8, 2012

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor priced its IPO last night, saying that it will offer up 5,500,000 shares of its common stock at $14.00 Peregrine priced at the low end of its initial estimated pricing range, which was $14.00 The firm will start trading today on the NASDAQ Global Market as PSMI. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Marlin Equity is acquiring online ratings and reviews software provider Bazaarvoice , in a deal worth $521M in cash, the two said this mroning. The company said Marlin Equity will take Bazaarvoice private, by paying $5.50 per share for all of Bazaarvoice's outstanding shares.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2020

If you can finance your enterprise through grants rather than equity or debt, you retain control and when it is time to sell your interest in the business, a lower sales price will create a higher return on your personal investment. The post Financing with grants, not equity or debt first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. As I’m generally a believer in ‘pricing rounds’ I initially didn’t agree with the premise of the post. Photo credit: D. rings true to me.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Beverly Hills-based private equity investor Platinum Equity announced this morning that it has bumped its offer for Van Nuys-based Electro Rent to $15.50 The new price bumps the total value of the deal to approximately $382.2M. per share in cash, up from an earlier, $13.12 per share offer.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Santa Monica-based prescription and healthcare marketplace operator GoodRx has priced its IPO, saying late last night that it is offering up 34,615,384 shares of its Class A common stock at $33.00 The company priced well above its initial offering range, which was $24.00 per share, indicating high investor interst in the company.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY , the developer of spa, beauty, fitness, and other booking software and services, has been acquired by Vista Equity Partners , in a deal worth $1.9 According to the two, Vista equity will pay $36.50 in cash per share for MINDBODY, a 68 percent premium on MINDBODY's closing price on December 21st.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

El Segundo-based Internet Brands , the Internet media firm headed by Bob Brisco, has been acquired by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners, in a deal worth approximately $640M. The price is a premium of approximately 46.5 percent over its closing price Friday. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2012

The firm priced its IPO above estimates, at $18.00 The firm had earlier estimated an initial pricing range of $15.00 JMI Equity is based in San Diego. San Diego-based ServiceNow has proven that the market for initial public offerings is still strong this morning, opening up at $23.08 in its first day of trading on the NYSE.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Santa Monica-based GoodRx , a developer of a digital healthcare and prescriptions service, has set an IPO pricing range of between $24.00 GoodRx is backed by private equity firms Silver Lake, Francisco Partners, Spectrum, and Idea Men LLC. and $28.00 The company is looking to raise as much as $1.1 GoodRx has filed to trade as GDRX.

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MAY 31, 2016

Beverlly Hills-based private equity investor Platinum Equity , and Van Nuys-based Electro Rent said Tuesday that the two are in a definitive agreement, where Platinum Equity will pay approximately $323.4M Platinum Equity said ti will pay $13.12 percent over the company's closing price on May 27th. for Electro Rent.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online car pricing site headed by Scott Painter, has scored a new, equity investment and partnership with direct marketing firm Guthy-Renker , the firm announced today. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 26, 2017

The most striking example was the one hundred–million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash. Email readers, continue here…] There are so many ways to satisfy a seller, sometimes a seller’s ego, by making a price seem higher than the reality of the purchase.

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MAY 23, 2010

a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing. If no financing happened then this “note&# may not be converted and thus would be senior to the equity of the company in the case of a bankruptcy or asset sale. Maybe the market views this as not worth the price you paid?

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MARCH 8, 2018

Give one percent equity to each outside board member vesting over four years of service. Pay early stage board members of companies that are not lifestyle businesses one percent of the fully diluted equity in the form of an option that vests over four years of service. Here is my best advice, based upon many boards and many years.

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Raising capital remained difficult but possible and valuations were tied to underlying performance metrics and everybody accepted the the ultimate exit — whether through M&A or IPO — would also be based on some level of rational pricing.

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JULY 9, 2021

Los Angeles-based online postage provider Stamps.com is going private, in a private equity acquisition by Thoma Bravo, the two said on Friday. The offer is a 67 percent premium over Stamps.com's price on close Thursday. Stamps.com allows small businesses and other print out postage directly on a printer.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

ProducePay raises $77 million in debt and equity to revolutionize farm financing. Since its launch in 2015, the company has seen $1.5 billion worth of produce flow across its marketplace and $750 million of those transactions were in the last year.

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JULY 11, 2011

By combining our equity investment with a tranche of venture debt, the company has avoided a larger equity round, which would have significantly diluted the Founders’ ownership share. Dollar Blend – Many venture debt lenders require that their funds be accompanied by an equity investment, generally from legitimate venture capitalists.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the other hand, the biggest winners will turn out to be much larger than the prices people paid for them and this will happen faster than at any time in human history. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. Investments in the intersection of data, technology and biology.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

He’s joining you because your company offers him/her the hope of the big equity package but likely the step forward in his career that he’s been looking for. I had given him a small equity stake in my company. He felt that we didn’t price correctly and he didn’t want to see customers until he had a grip on it.

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APRIL 4, 2014

TrueCar--which is led by Scott Painter--is backed by USAA, Capricorn Investment Group, Upfront Ventures, Anthem Ventures, Vulcan Capital Growth Equity, and Peppy Capital Partners. truecar merger acquisition exit nasdaq true automobile buying pricing' TrueCar reported a loss of $22.6M READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2016

Impinj , a developer of RFID technology which has engineering offices in both Rancho Cordova and Newport Beach, has set the estimated IPO pricing range for its stock at between $12.00 and $14.00 per share, the company said in a filing this morning.

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MARCH 27, 2021

The company’s massive mint comes thanks to a new $500 million financing round led by Sequoia’s Global Equities fund and Tiger Global Management. Rowe Price, Dragoneer Investment Group, and ICONIQ Growth.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Irvine-based disk drive and storage maker Western Digital Corporation has received a massive, $3.775 billion equity investment from Chinese company Unisplendour Corporation Limited , which will give Unisplendour a 15 percent stake in the company. per share for the stake.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing website headed by Scott Painter, said this morning that it has raised $200M in new debt and equity financing, plus acquired a company. TrueCar said the financng round included USAA, Capricorn Investment Group and GRP Partners, all existing investors in the firm.

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