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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Until we weren’t.

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Rebranding Should Be Driven By Growth, Not Desperation

InfoChachkie

In contrast, companies that are rapidly growing often rebrand in order to more accurately reflect the expanded scope of their target market and product set. percent of the domestic market in 2006 but watched that slip to 8.4 The path from a product name to an umbrella brand is not uncommon in the startup world.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Go Boulder!

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

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. There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks! MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo!

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Interview with Alex Kazerani and James Segil, OpenPath

socalTECH

We then started Edgecast in 2006. Cloudification was really important to us, as cloud guys, who had build SaaS in the past. So where is the product today? We're now ramping up the team and production and capabilities along that demand curve. What drove you to start new company and get back into the startup game?

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

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. The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). Showscase your products and services. About Quick-UX.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class.