socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa: If you have ever been in a position where people come to you to as for help, you find that you end up answering lots of the same questions, over and over again. That ends up being a waste of time, especially in larger enterprises. How did the company start? There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

Howard Lindzon , the San Diego angel investors who also heads up stock micro-messaging site StockTwits , has invested in another private company-- Discoverly. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The original notion of the company started around the idea of sender controlled communications. Within that, we started to focus early on around the opportunity of applying this in the enterprise, and subsequently, healthcare. Within that, when we started to canvas the verticals, healthcare bubbled up to the top very quickly.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

He has a practice focused on complex software and internet transactions for an international base of technology and other clients, as well as on government relations and international policy and enforcement issues affecting the copyright industries. a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2012

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the startup which provides an online site to help companies manage their fundraising process, is announcing this morning thta it has raised $400,000 in a new funding round. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $1.8M. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Software Review Yammer Funding 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

Mike Stern (wasn’t sure which one so leave a comment if it’s you): Q: “is it possible to sell your startup without venture investment if the company has big traction and a large user base?&# But most importantly I lectured founders that you can’t avoid the admin of setting up your ESOP. Do it early.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. But then Marc Andreessen weighed in – as did I and several others – and the media picked up on his comments.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

He also gave us some of his thoughts on why the "Paypal Mafia"--former PayPal employees--have gotten so much success from their startups. My cofounder and I know how hard it is to get a company up and running, and funded, to keep your investors in the loop. So how'd you end up here in Southern California? Thanks, and good luck!

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Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Enterprise Software sucks, and if you’re an engineer or product designer, we invite you to join this hackathon to reinvent business 2 business software. The goal is to take the complicated out of softwares like CRMs and project management tools and turn them in to simple, beautiful and usable products. Judges Prize: $250.

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Santa Monica Yammer Geni Southern California 72

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million in a new round of financing from Peter Thiel, FF Angel , Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups , Andrej Henkler (former Bertelsmann executive), and Alexsis de Raadt-St. Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

It helps it cients close deals faster, exchange files securely, and manage more deals at any given time making it “the go-to place for setting up and closing deals” according to The Wall Street Journal and making it among the “5 Back-Office Tech Innovations” as listed by Inc. More Agile & Secure Than Trad VPN technologies.

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Yammer Journal Networking Software 72

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Anyone who has been in sales, business development, or just works a lot with others is familiar with contact management software--tracking who you have been talking to, when, notes, and more for sales teams. Jon Ferrara: What we did when we set out to build Nimble, is we starting building a platform which integrate your contacts and calendar.

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Google Tool Email Sales 216

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Put simply Chuck is amongst the smartest and most knowledgeable leaders in the CRM industry and in the components I consider the future of enterprise software — voice driving input/output, chat-based computing and mobile-first design. If you’re a consumer software company your buyer is your user. Why Invest? The reason is simple.

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Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. Too many startup execs place too much emphasis on the big stage launch. If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. It started socially.

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Lately the topic of leadership & teams has been coming up a lot in my daily life. You do a startup and decide you want somebody to step in and run the company so you can focus on technical excellence. The toughest or coolest kids in class often like somebody who is willing to stand up to them – but not cross them.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack.

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