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Seismic Acquires Grapevine6

socalTECH

San Diego-based Seismic , which develops sales enablement and marketing software, has acquired Grapevien6 , a social and digital sales software developer. Grapevine6 was based in Toronto, Canada, and had been founded in 2013. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

Coming out of ServiceNow around 2013, I realized that a lot of problems that we had been discussing and dealing with with customers adopting applications like ServiceNow into the enterprise, was establishing connections of that data and processes with systems in the enterprise. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” How little we all knew how ironic that term would become but has nonetheless endured. Ten years on much has changed. just to name a few!

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As Unicorns Multiply, Bootstrapped Tech Businesses Holding Steady

Xconomy

Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service. Aha makes a program that helps project managers develop new product roadmaps, which are used by others in the customer’s business, from sales.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. how to evolve our management team.

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Interview with Mike Whitmire, CEO and Co-founder, FloQast

socalTECH

He comes from a SaaS background, and enterprise software. Six months later, I had those three things, pitched the partners, and I was in there in July of 2013. W actually opened up a second office in Columbus, Ohio, to serve as our East Coast sales office, and we're building out our sales force here in Los Angeles.

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Marketing Crushes Customer Experience through Data. DUN dun dun!

Tech Zulu Event

” Keynote presentations on Cloud, SaaS, Mobile, Big Data, CRM, HCM and more continue to herald “disruptive innovation to empower enterprise collaboration.” And yet I learned that in 2013/2014, only 24% of companies had real growth. ” Is it really that disruptive though?

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