Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. I don’t want to speak to customer service reps!! source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). Much more data in the full post.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2010

According to Farmers Insurance, its eZsign initiative allows customers to settle claims using electronic signatures. Farmers said it initially launched the product in December of 2009 in three states, and has now rolled it out to a total of 16 states. Tags: rightsignature farmers insurance saas software signature esignature.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. We help our customers weave together all the data across all of their data streams,” Lunsford said.

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JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. People attending marquee conferences with rock bands, prominent speakers, Gartner Group prognosticators and lots of other happy customers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The two have been working together since 2009 to make Cornerstone's larger, enterprise targeted offerings, available to ADP's larger customers. The two said they will make Cornerstone's learning and performance management solution for small businesses, Cornerstone Growth Edition, available to ADP's clients in early 2016.

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JUNE 25, 2015

As we went from a small band of missionaries hell bent on making our idea a reality, raising capital, getting press, and selling to customers – we were all having fun. We built a business with $36 million in bookings and real customers who relied upon our service. In other words, Why now?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2011

According to RealPage, Yardi Systems sued its EverGreen Consulting division, which it acquired in 2009. RealPage said it believes Yardi had a "hidden intent" in the lawsuit to "inhibit EverGreen from competing with Yardi's consulting service organization."

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. He called this initiative VEDO and launched it quietly to some of our bigger customers. So the next chapter of DataSift is underway.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products. Launchpad LA was founded by prominent VC Mark Suster of GRP Partners in 2009, and invests in each company that is accepted into the program.

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JUNE 18, 2015

Success often comes from doing a few things extraordinarily well and noticeably better than the competition and is measured in customer feedback, product engagement, growth in usage and ultimately in revenue growth. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? You need to be successful and those are two different things.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

However, our customers, even with Concur, find those solutions didn't meet all of their needs. We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009. Customers would start evaluating them, and it would very quickly narrow to just two companies, us and Concur.

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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. What is Laughstub? Scot Richardson: In a nutshell, we're a WordPress for venues.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. 2) Harris Interactive IMShopping Poll (August 2009). (3)

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. It might be for technical reasons or it might be for customer adoption reasons. We sold the company when we hit $36 million in bookings and $16 million in SaaS GAAP revenue. I built two companies. Not Google.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. You are particularly vulnerable if: You have revenue concentration (few customers each providing a large total of percentage of your revenue). Growth vs. Profitability.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. It forces the founder to spend time in front of customers. It’s kind of a truism for life and certainly our industry. I see it in many young pups.

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MAY 24, 2021

Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . Case in point, Procore just went public and is trading at an $11 billion valuation. Maker Studios?—?sold

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We manage user login so businesses can focus on core product and engage customers faster. Fun Fact: LafaLafa is a play on the word ‘Laugh’ from the business tagline ‘Laugh your way to maximum savings’ and is meant to evoke a happy feeling for customers when they find the best deal. SaaS for Cloud application lifecycle management.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Invoca was raising at the tail end of this market phenomenon at this time doing tens of millions in SaaS recurring revenue and growing at a nice clip. Total customers grew 20% year/year.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

They also come in many different types from syndication formats like RSS and Atom to custom API streams. All of these approaches made major headway in 2009 and are poised for mainstream use in 2010. The top 10 posts of 2009 Enterprise 2.0: The 2009 year in review What will power next-generation businesses?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Stop Listening to Your Customers. A common assumption among startup entrepreneurs is that listening to potential customers is the best. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Unger, John T.

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