Webinar with SVB Analytics and Armanino McKenna on Equity and Share-Based Payments
FLG partner Eric Hall will participate with SVB Analytics and Armanino McKenna in a webinar panel on Equity and Share-Based Payments: What Every Early Stage Company Should Know. October 15, 2009 at 10:00 am. Duration: 90 minutes. To register, click here.
FLG, Cooley Godward & Cowen & Co. SaaS Seminar
FLG Partners, Cooley, Goward Kronish and Cowen & Co. are pleased to host a morning seminar: Three Perspectives on SaaS Companies: Financial & Operational, Legal, and Capital Markets Location: Cooley Godward Kronish: 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto Time: 7:30am registration, 8:00 – 10:30am presentation & panel For more details, see here. To register, contact Kareen Lambert [...]
SiPort, Inc. Brings HD Radio to Microsoft’s Zune HD Portable Media Player
September 15, 2009. SiPort announced today that Microsoft’s new Zune HD media player uses SiPort’s single-chip Digital Broadcast Receiver. Company press release. FLG partner: Vince McCord.
Webinar with Silicon Valley Bank on FAS 141R – Business Combinations
FAS 141R: Insights from 2009 First Half Implementations: What You Need to Know and Why You Need to Know It FLG partner Skip Smith will participate in a webinar sponsored by SVB Analytics on this new standard, offering a CFO’s perspective. For more information and to register for the webinar, click here.
Clickatell Recognized For Mobile Excellence
September 14, 2009. Clickatell (Pty) Ltd. and its CEO, Pieter de Villiers were recognized at the Mobile Content Awards in London for Best Mobile Messaging Campaign and Industry Personality of the Year, respectively. Company press release. Also, on September 8, 2009, the company announced that it had received a MOBI award for Best Mobile Direct Response. [...]
The IPO Head Fake
The resurgence of NASDAQ this year, the successful IPOs this year of Open Table and a few others, the recent S-1 filing of Fortinet, Inc., and the anticipated filings of other notable private Silicon Valley companies have sparked hope that the IPO market is coming back. Of course, this is of enormous significance to the [...]
Glacier Bay, Inc. Secures $10M in Funding
September 2, 2009. The company raises a new round led the Westly Group and New Enterprise Associates. Company press release. FLG partner: Vince McCord.
The Lonely CFO
The profession of being a CFO has changed a lot since Sarbanes-Oxley in 2002. The pre-Sarbanes era seems like a distant memory; pre-SOX, a CFO was able to draw upon the technical expertise, resources and counsel of his or her auditor, audit chair and outside counsel. I used to run ideas, concerns and questions by [...]
