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LA’s Replicated looks to increase R&D and hiring for its operations management software after raising $25 million

TechCrunch LA

The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million.

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How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups

SoCal CTO

A lot of my time is spent helping early-stage companies get to proof points so that they can raise capital. Size of target market $100M is okay. Interesting that they don't need to see really large markets. - > $100 million (will require significant additional funding). What are they really looking for? is a requirement.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

That was a really fast stint, we started with only a couple of small customers but ended up taking it to $120K MRR and sold it to Home Depot at a significant multiple above revenue. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. That was four years ago.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Greycroft is Alan’s venture capital firm that recently raised its second fund ($130 million) with offices in both New York and LA. We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc.

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RingRevenue Calls Up $4M More

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the provider of pay-per-call, performance marketing technology run by Jason Spievak, said this morning that it has closed on $4M more in a new round of funding. RingRvenue develops technology which tracks responses to phone calls, allowing calls to be used for affiliate sales and tracking. READ MORE>>.