Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.

Venture Capital 471

Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2013

If you were in sales, you either ran ACT!, and Goldmine faded away, no longer the two kings of the sales CRM world. So far, Nimble has the edge, as the Santa Monica company has been offering up its products to the market since 2011, and Contatta just announced the company and has yet to launch its own software.

Funding 222

Funding SaaS Santa Monica Customer 222

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2011

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 -- ExecTec - Up in the Cloud. Will iCloud do for Software as a Service (SaaS) what iTunes has done to traditional music sales? Is there potential for real enterprise level SaaS solutions? What cloud based services are you using? How many are you paying for?

Cloud Computing 100

Cloud Computing SaaS Sales Software 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Wes Nichols: I'd say that for 2011, what we are going to see is a dramatic rollout of our software. Did the TV stimulate search?

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. This was her pain point, back in our early days in 2011, and at that time, social was starting to become big. However, I think all companies now are okay with trying new software here.

El Segundo 169

El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. For folks who haven't used ChowNow, what does the software do?

Mobile 197

Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011. Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103