socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leads360 , a developer of hosted software for managing sales leads, reported yesterday that the firm has signed on Infinity Auto Insurance, a unit of Infinity Property and Casualty Group. Tags: leads360 software sales lead saas. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand has hired investment banking firms Centerview Partners and Goldman Sachs, in a move that could result in either a sale of the company, or help in fighting off an activist investor, according to a report.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Software Review Invest Report 100

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What does Chrome River's software do?

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Funded B2B SaaS is looking for a VP, Engineering. The Financial Analysts primary functions include data base query, financial planning, data analysis, and reporting of DreamHosts financial activities. This role has a heavy emphasis on retrieving information and reports from various data bases, using SQL, Access, and Crystal Reports.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2018

Today's interview is with Jon Ferrara of Nimble (www.nimble.com), the maker of contact management software-as-a-service. Jon Ferrara: I firmly believe that Service is the New Sales and that the Sales starts after a customer buys. Customer service is critical to customer retention in the SaaS subscription model.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

According to ServiceTitan, the integration allows garage door sales and service technicians to easily configure and present quotes and track and process Clopay doors. ServiceTitan said the move is aimed at helping improve efficiency and drive sales for garage door dealers and contractors served by Clopay.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Torrance-based LiveOffice , which provides hosted email archiving, email compliance, and backup services, reports today that it has what it says was another great quarter for growth. LiveOffice attributed the growth to its channel sales efforts. Tags: liveoffice email saas software archiving compliance growth.

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Torrance SaaS Email Report 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Enterprise software might be considered on the boring side for some of those in the technology world, but it looks like the industry is being good to Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet. THe firm's customers use its contract management software to help automate quoting and renewals on service contracts. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

San Diego-based VMIX , which provides white-label software for hosting and distributing digital video, said this morning that it has launched an effort to attract value added resellers. VMIX said it will provide market and sales support, training, tech support, and reporting to those partners as part of the program. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Built from the ground up using technologies leveraged by Internet giants like Facebook, and the feedback of hundreds of customers over a five-year period, the new CallFire is a cross-datacenter SaaS platform with no single point of failure. The new interface is easy to use and is accessible from anywhere using almost any device.”.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2012

Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet , the developer of sales channel management and service agreement renewal software, reported that it's expanding Down Under today. The firm said it has signed a new, value added distributor in Australia, Westcon Group Australia, who will offer its product to its resellers for free.

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Outsource Development Software Review Sales Software 124

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 technology to make submitting expense reports extremely easy. finance software such as Wesabe and Mint, and applied it to the corporate expense area.

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Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. Semick: They are. It’s chaotic.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2012

Human resources service provider TriNet confirmed Thursday that it has acquired Los Angeles-based expense report management software provider ExpenseCloud. Financial terms of the sale have not been announced. According to TriNet, it will incorporate ExpenseCloud's offering into its client service platform later in 2012.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

CapLinked , the Los Angeles-based developer of enterprise software for managing M&A transactions, venture deals, and other business deals, is aiming squarely at legacy, virtual data room services with its latest updates. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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Services Venture Capital Equity Los Angeles 218

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard , a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif. I couldn’t believe there wasn’t a software for compliance and risk,” Lee said.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2011

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY , the provider of online software for health and wellness companies, reported today that it has launched a new, custom daily deal feature to its software. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

San Diego-based ACTIVE Network , the provider of online, activity, ticketing, and registration services for sports and other recreation providers, reported today that it has been selected by the Philadelphia Zoo. ACTIVE NTEwork said that it will power ticketing, point-of-sale, and other zoo operation efforts via its RTP|ONE commerce engine.

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Activity Networking San Diego Commerce 140

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Hopscotch, led by Laurence Sotsky , has built software which enables sports teams, venues, and others to rapidly create mobile apps for their fans. Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. That provides much better reporting to sponsors.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. As you probably know, Goldmine used to compete with ACT, and was a precursor to software like Salesforce.com when contact management software started on laptops.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. For anyone that small, Ticketmaster doesn't make sense.

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

To address that, Los Angeles-based FileTrek (www.filetrek.com) announced a funding round for its cloud-based software for sharing enterprise and business files yesterday. What our software does, is it allows that collaboration to take place, but also keeps track of that. Our sales and marketing will be in Los Angeles.

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EC2 Los Angeles Web Anthem 150

Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

MindBodyOnline is a terrifically succesful SaaS company, based in San Luis Obispo, that provides scheduling and transactional software for Yoga studios, hair salons, and spas. MBO is very metrics driven, and their shareholder reports are dense with detailed, disciplined reporting that remind you that Rick is former Naval officer.

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Customer Custom Software Review SaaS 97

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company. He then started several successful companies, including FastSpring, a company that provides outsourced e-commerce services to over 3,000 software companies.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. We were unprepared.

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Startup Press Customer Custom 331

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. lament the coverage they get from journalists who reported the details unfairly. Imagine if you had to release your software daily in order to keep your job or to have the traffic numbers you need to earn your paycheck. First, understand their deadlines.

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