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Why GoToMeeting’s SaaS Playbook Wouldn’t Work Today

InfoChachkie

During the early 2000’s, my team grew the company to one of the largest SaaS businesses of its day, with sales of $70 million. At approximately $600 million in recurring, annual revenue, the new GoTo Company will rank as one of the largest pure SaaS companies on the planet. I couldn’t spend money fast enough.

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Interview with Jon Waterman, Founder and CEO of Ad.net

socalTECH

They typically have specific budgets lined up, and they're looking for ways to diversity, and also access new customers. That product right now is on 2,000 publisher websites, it's sold under the SaaS model, and a lot of people on the free, ad-supported version. We're able to do that by the traffic we tap into.

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RealPractice Gets New Funding, Execs

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New was most recently at Ripple Networks, and also served at Yahoo. The firm said the new funding will go towards expanding its product set and reach, and to serve new customers. Tags: saas software legal executive capital venture realpractice. RealPractice is headed by Carey Ransom. READ MORE>>.

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When Intent And Content Align, Online Ads Suck A Whole Lot Less

InfoChachkie

At Rincon Venture Partners , we have a laser focus on identifying groundbreaking adtech and business productivity SaaS solutions. When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! and Overture Services.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! He called this initiative VEDO and launched it quietly to some of our bigger customers. and Microsoft had become. So the next chapter of DataSift is underway.

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Interview with William Chow, Mobophiles

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But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. There might be a little customization we need to do for your website, but it's trivial--it's not an application rewrite that you might need to do like Google has. You can get it for free.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

SoCal Delicious

Are you trying to track and figure out what makes your customers tick? How do you use Big Data to profile your customers, and maximize revenue for your business? customers based on that data. deployments, with many well known customers relying on the company's tools. The company's software is being included in the Linux.