Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Technology, tagged boic, exports, Gerbsman Partners, stagnation in economy on September 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The economy pulled out of a dangerous rough patch in the spring, thanks largely to strong exports, but the rebound isn’t expected to last. Economic slowdowns overseas could make exports tail off just as Americans are hunkering down after the bracing impact of rebate checks wanes, plunging the country into another rut later this year.
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Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, tagged boic, Gerbs, Gerbsman Partners, m&a, Steven Gerbsman, steven r gerbsman on September 11, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Steven R. Gerbsman, Principal of Gerbsman Partners and Kenneth Hardesty, a member of Gerbsman Partners Board of Intellectual Capital, announced today their success in maximizing stakeholder value for a technology company that was a provider and distributor of high-value, rights managed high definition imagery for high definition televisions . Gerbsman Partners facilitated the sale of the business unit and associated Intellectual Property and assets. Due to market conditions, the venture capital-backed company made the strategic decision to maximize the value of the business unit and Intellectual Property.
Gerbsman Partners provided leadership to the company with:
About Gerbsman Partners
Gerbsman Partners focuses on maximizing enterprise value for stakeholders and shareholders in under-performing, under-capitalized and under-valued companies and their Intellectual Property. In the past 60 months, Gerbsman Partners has been involved in maximizing value for 46 Technology and Life Science companies and their Intellectual Property and has restructured/terminated over $750 million of real estate executory contracts and equipment lease/sub-debt obligations. Since inception, Gerbsman Partners has been involved in over $2.2 billion of financings, restructurings and M&A transactions.
Gerbsman Partners has offices and strategic alliances in North America, Europe and Israel.
For more information, please contact Steven Gerbsman at steve@gerbsmanpartners.com
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Technology, tagged boic, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Robert Tillman, silicon valley, Venture Capital, venture financing on September 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The Valley’s latest extreme sport is feigning nonchalance about the economy. Living in an earthquake zone requires developing a habit of stoic flinchiness. The economy’s seismic shifts are slower, but just as unpredictable; all one can do it shrug one’s shoulders, stock the emergency kit, and keep on living. “We’re watching the economy crater all around us, but … well, we’re not really seeing any direct impact,” writes Tech Ticker anchor Sarah Lacy. “Making things more uneasy for those here in 2000: We didn’t cause this one.” Lacy’s right to reach back in history for examples, but her timing is off. This is 1998 all over again.
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Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Technology, Venture Capital, Wireless, tagged acquisition, Friendly Foreclosure of Assets, Gerbsman Partners, hercules technology growth capital, teleflip on August 26, 2008| Leave a Comment »
SALE OF TELEFLIP INC
Gerbsman Partners has been retained by Hercules Technology Growth Capital , the senior secured lender to Teleflip Inc. , to solicit interest for the acquisition of substantially all of Teleflip’ assets, including its Intellectual Property , Patents, processes and other intangibles in whole or in part (collectively, the “Teleflip Assets”).
As of August 11, 2008 Teleflip shut down its operations. Hercules, the senior lender, is presently working with the Teleflip on a “Friendly Foreclosure of Assets”, and Teleflip will selling the Assets of Teleflip.
TeleFlip has two award-winning, nationally recognized mobile messaging services that uniquely bridge the internet & cell phone networks to deliver push emails to mobile phones via the SMS data channel, leveraging the existing text messaging inbox found on every mobile phone throughout the world.
• “FlipMail” enables mobile phone users to receive their current personal and business emails from virtually every POP, webmail, and Microsoft Exchange email accounts, without any new or special software downloads or a mobile internet connections to use the service. Users signup for FlipMail by simply providing their email address, email password, and mobile phone number. Emails are then converted to text messages and parsed, sequenced, and concatenated to be easily displayed and read on the phone.
• “Flipout” allows people to send emails from their existing email accounts, either client-based or webmail-based emails, directly to a mobile phone user with the email converted delivered to the mobile phone as a text message. No software is needed by the PC-sender of an email, nor by mobile phone-receiver. Senders simply send an email to the mobile phone user by addressing the email to “their cell phone number @teleflip.com”, eg, 3105551212@teleflip.com <mailto:3105551212@teleflip.com> , and the email then shows up as text message on mobile phone without having to know the recepient’s mobile phone operator.
• “Mobile Ad Platform” is a proprietary advertising insertion technology that easily allows for any length of advertisement to be placed within a Flipmail or Flipout text message delivered to the cell phone.
FlipMail and Flipout are operated as hosted, ASP-based services. Teleflip’s technology infrastructure consists of a Unique Network Unification™ Process which maps and routes and converts messages from the email messaging network and pushes them to the mobile handset through the SMS data channel.
The company has co-lo facilities and server networks which are carrier grade, redundant, and load balanced on the East and West Coasts, and was designed for easy scalability.
For more information, please contact Steven R. Gerbsman at steve@gerbsmanpartners.com
Posted in Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Uncategorized, tagged Bob tillman, boic, Gerbsman Partners, stagnation in economy, Wall street journal on August 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The most painful and frustrating economic policy blunder of the past 50 years was the Great Inflation of the 1970s. Painful, because it was the catalyst for three damaging recessions (1973-75, 1980, 1981-82), all the while eroding living standards and seriously undermining confidence in America.
It was also deeply frustrating. Despite the teaching of Milton Friedman — which clearly explained that inflation was caused by too much money chasing too few goods — a combination of bad economic models, denial and political expediency allowed it to happen.
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