socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Glendale-based ServiceTitan , the developer of home service business management software, says this morning that it has named David Burt, former NetFlix Vice President of Content Planning & Analysis and Co-Head of Corporate Development as its new Chief Financial Officer--as the appears poised for an IPO. billion.

Netflix 124

Netflix Glendale Content Invest 124

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

All of the big SaaS movement was causing this problem with business processes and data. They end up either calling or emailing, and someone literally takes that same content, and manually enters it into a trouble ticket in a system like ServiceNow. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I only say that because after years as a VC I can always tell when my peer group invested in something because “it seemed like it would make money” versus when they invested out of passion. I have placed a much bigger emphasis on falling in love as a criterion for my making an investment. Does she live your journey?

Venture Capital 373

Venture Capital Startup Course Entrepreneur 373

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2015

According to Disney, the second class of the Disney Accelerator includes ten startups, who will participate in a three month mentorship and investment program. The second class includes Decisive (SaaS for mobile targeting); EMOTIV (brain monitoring technology); FEM Inc.

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Class Startup Burbank SaaS 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Those businesses have made the investments and thought around making themselves convenient to clients, and I still didn't understand why salons required you to make a call to make an appointment. We were helping YouTube creators understand their audience, make better content, and ultimately, grow their reach.

Startup 100

Startup Platform Software SaaS 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform. It is easy to invest capital, but very, very hard to exit, so don't. TVC is currently investing their third fund and has over $235 million under management. be the pig and don't get greedy. READ MORE>>.

Capital 100

Capital Beverly Hills Artificial Inteligence Equity 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Also, because of the internal dynamics of the talent pool, it effectively lead to more companies in the preponderant areas, which at the time were e-commerce, ad-tech, and disruptive media or media-related companies�such as game companies, companies that were in music, or companies related to the distribution of content.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Funding Incubator 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

LPs (the people who invest in VC funds) want to know what “hot” deals you’re in. In a pool of 25-30 investments in a VC fund the goal is to have 2-3 huge outliers. Our partners have invested in more than dozen companies that became worth more than a billion dollars and that has disproportionately drive returns.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review 390

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We caught up with Steve Seigel , the executive producer and one of the stars of the new startup pitch program Hatched (www.hatchedtv.com), to learn more about those areas, as well as how he ended up going from investment banking, to running a healthcare startup here in LA, to hosting a television pitch show.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Invest Competition 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Littlstar aggregates industry leading virtual reality content with its device agnostic discovery and distribution platform. Decisive is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that uses real time data to enable advertisers to optimize mobile ad creative and targeting based on user engagement. Advertiser Optimization.

Class 40

Class Artificial Inteligence AMA Platform 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We have exclusive content, including videos that people can download in the app itself to watch, and if you're at an away game, you can even listen to your own announcer and turn down the audio when you are watching TV. Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run.

Mobile 162

Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

The team''s ability to drive significant customer interest without spending a dime on marketing was one of the reasons Jim Andelman and I invested in the company. Their SaaS product saves web developers and designers time, while allowing them to create cutting-edge websites. Don’t Over Think It.

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Customer Custom Template Startup 195

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Speakers listed: Brock Pierce – Digital currency pioneer investing in Bitcoin, games, and online gambling businesses; Clearstone Global Gaming Fund.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan.

Startup 110

Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

The team''s ability to drive significant customer interest without spending a dime on marketing was one of the reasons Jim Andelman and I invested in the company. Their SaaS product saves web developers and designers time, while allowing them to create cutting-edge websites. Don’t Over Think It.

Customer 153

Customer Custom Template Startup 153

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2009

We focus on the creative content of TV advertising, and we've developed a very powerful, scoring algorithm which we call Ace Scores, which rates advertising effectiveness, and deliver that data to our customers--advertisers and agencies--through a software-as-a-service offering. We're really revolutionizing TV ad creative.

Advertising 100

Advertising Palomar Startup Customer 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Early 30s: Got really serious about her career and started her company LaunchBit, an adtech platform for SaaS marketers. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

in a Series A from TVC, to invest in expanding sales, marketing, and business development. San Diego-based TVC Capital , the growth equity investor which specializes in software companies, is the lead investor in a round of funding for Levels Beyond , the two announced today. Levels Beyond said it raised $4.5M

Capital 157

Capital San Diego Equity Software 157

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. SimpleGeo – Provider of simple, turnkey location based services to content publishers and online service providers looking to location-enable their applications or services. Total raised: $29.5mm.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. what’s hot?

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. . As the technologies aimed at aiding online video distribution expand, both content creators and adve. Entrepreneurism / Monetization advertising effectiveness, content distribution, monetization. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

It required content sites to develop totally new content. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. It was slow. It was hard to use.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2015

If you create content marketing programs and drive traffic to websites where you can measure how long somebody spends reading your materials or downloading your white papers you’ve at least confirmed some level of interest. Also, you need to consider the type of investments each VC does.

Sales 150

Sales Startup Venture Capital Funding 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. They are an open-source & SaaS provider of eCommerce solutions. I chose it because I thought it would represent who I am – mostly an entrepreneur but somebody with investment chops. accessibility. authenticity.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What’s our purchase, licensing, SaaS strategy? If the startup lasts into a few rounds of investment, the rounds get larger, and the team grows. The key here is to begin to avoid technology specific content and instead focus on management skills. Where and how will we host the systems? " Startups either grow or die.

CTO Coach 231

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. at a $2.5M Boy did I feel like Rip Van Winkle.)

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217